Links that may save your life, or maybe just your lesson....

1. Jamie Keddie that I have already mentioned. His ideas are very fresh and work really well in practice (at least those that I have tested myself).
You also get feedback from other teachers who have tried them on their students.
Some ideas are of course better than others. What I like about them is that they normally have this "wake me up" effect on students. I am rarely disappointed with it.

Jamie Keddie

2. Swiss Miss has been a never ending source of inspiration for me for a good few years now.
It is a blog of a Swiss- American designer and entrepreneur Tina Roth Eisenberg.
The advantage of this blog is that it is uncluttered, so without wasting a lot of time, you can quickly grasp what is important for you.

http://www.swiss-miss.com/

3. BTS written exam topics and (sometimes) corrections. Probably everybody knows it, but... we never know...A comprehensive list of all the topics from the exam, it can come in handy.

written BTS exam topics


4. In need of a video from a BTS exam for AM, AG or COM? Visit this website:

 BTS oral exam



5.Teaching English through films? I think you could give it a go. A website of Kieran Donaghy:

http://film-english.com/


6. A French blog devoted to different types of BTS(s) from NRC to design.

http://btsanglais.over-blog.com/tag/bts%20de/


7. Museums' websites can also be full of ideas:

MoMa

Tate Modern

Design Museum London

8. or Webquests - an interesting source of inspiration for lessons on conceptual art,  art and design, protest art and others:

http://nmolp.tate.org.uk/webquests/

9. I also like to visit the Guardian's website on art and design, especially Oliver Wainwright's videos: very good both aesthetically and information-wise.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign

10.  And this is a virtual goldmine of ideas concerning creative jobs, case studies, interviews with all sorts of artists, information on what their days look like, how they ended up doing what they are doing, problems they face, advice they can give etc.


Creative choices