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What is VACAF?!
What’s VACAF? It’s an acronym that stands for Visual Arts Coursework Authentication Form. (Those of you who either regularly visit the OCC or have an on-the-ball DP Coordinator will know about it)....
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INTERNAL ASSESSMENT: THE CURSE OF OPTIMISM
THE CURSE OF OPTIMISM Of course, I’m not against optimism. And just to show what a positive blog this is I’m kicking off with a couple of happy songs, courtesy of YouTube (“Happy” and “Happy Talk”)....
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It’s March – are you ready for the Visual Arts uploads?
For many of us, this will be the 2nd time we upload files for the ‘new’ visual arts course. Hopefully you learned from your experiences last March/April! Here are some reminders 1 THE UPLOAD – DATES...
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Carrying out a good IA project
Have you stated your Internal Assessment(IA) yet? If you are a ‘May session’ school, this anytime from May of IB1 until December of IB2 seems a likely time that your school will carry this out with you...
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Preparing students in Grade 11 for Internal Assessment
The Internal Assessment represents an examination of the students understanding of the experimental programme. To this end, Grade 11 is of great importance in preparing students for the independent...
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6/VACAF, EE/RPPF and EE/CS
(Don’t you love acronyms?) I lead DP visual arts workshops, both online and face-to-face, and just before Christmas finished my last visual arts workshop of 2017. It was a category 1 and these are...
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Ethanedioic Acid Titrations
It’s that time of year where if you are in IB1 you may well be starting to think about your IA. What will you do?! I hope today’s post gives you some ideas. Have you thought about working with...
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The most important thing for students to do is to choose a straightforward, answerable question on a suitable topic. The Subject Avoid ‘well worn paths’. There is little new that you could add to our...
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Possible EE / IA project
I’ve just stumbled upon a great article on the BBC website. The article can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45398434 The article is about a group of plants that have...
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Photography (only?) in the Exhibition
Let’s be clear: unlike the Process Portfolio, there are no requirements that students explore a range of media/processes in the Exhibition. A successful exhibition could consist of, say, ten artworks...
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