Schools : Harry Potter Virtual Exhibition ? Yes ! Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture Virtual Harry Potter Exhibition

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

For Harry Potter’s fellow students at Hogwarts, “A History of Magic” is historian Bathilda Bagshot’s legendary chronicle of Wizarding history. And last year, we mere Muggles got our own version. “Harry Potter: A History of Magic” is an exhibition from the British Library containing rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from the British Library’s collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic from across the world, which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories.

Suhair Khanm, Google Arts & Culture

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

https://www.bl.uk/events/

"Have you ever wanted to delve into Divination, ponder the peculiarities of Potions and discover enchanting creatures?"

The British Library exhibition Harry Potter A History of Magic closed last February 2018. It has been a huge success. Thousands of students visited it.

I wrote about the exhibition on my post The 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone : resources (June 2017).

The Care of Magical Creatures room 

in the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition 

The British Library 

credits: Nils Jorgensen/Rex/Shutterstock

https://www.theguardian.com/books/

The exhibition has been created by the British Library to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. All the artefacts featured in the exhibition were rooted in the mystical and magical, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories.

The exhibition unveiled rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from the British Library’s collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories. Marvel at original drafts and drawings by J.K. Rowling and illustrator Jim Kay, both on display for the first time. 

Students could admire the gargantuan 16th-century Ripley Scroll that explains how to create a Philosopher’s Stone. Gaze at Sirius in the night sky as imagined by medieval astronomers. They encountered hand-coloured pictures of dragons, unicorns and a phoenix rising from the flames.

Harry Potter: A History of Magic (in numbers)

https://www.bl.uk/events/

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stonewith this extraordinary new addition to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

Wow! British students were so lucky! Well! Wow! There is a chance to all the Potterheads in the world. 

The exhibition is closed! Yes! However, thanks to the wonders of modern technology and the clever team at Google Arts & Culture, students of all over the world have now the opportunity to explore the exhibition online in detail on their special, dedicated page here.

To bring the Harry Potter magic to more fans around the world, hundreds of the exhibition’s treasures from London as well as 15 online exhibits are now available in six languages at Google Arts & Culture.

Google Arts & Culture Virtual Harry Potter Exhibition

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

Education:

Google Arts & Culture are taking students through a week of Muggle Magic lessons to tie in with the launch of the online exhibition. Yes! Google Arts and Culture debuts Virtual Harry Potter Exhibition

For all students who dreamed of attending Harry Potter Potter London exhibition and could not, Google Arts & Culture is providing a magical hack to bring the exhibit to everyone.

If your students didn't have the chance to see the London exhibition in person, the digital version is definitely worth it! 

Your students will be mad. Let students, tutoring the youngest, to check out everything the virtual tour has to offer! There is so much to see and do, and right from their computer, tablet or digital device.

Harry Potter: A History of Magic / Virtual Exhibition

credits: Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

The physical exhibition is due to close February 28, but in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, the British Library has made it accessible online. 

The virtual exhibit is teeming with images, interviews, and articles. It also features a few interactive touches - they can examine the length of the Ripley Scroll, a 6-metre-long 16th century document that contains the recipe for the philosopher's stone. 

Harry Potter: A History of Magic / Virtual Exhibition

credits: Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

From taking a Herbology class with Culpepper’s Herbal, to Rowling’s original sketch of the Hogwarts’ grounds, with her meticulous notes; from the original synopsis of the first Harry Potter book, to exploring The Ripley Scroll, which describes how to make the fabled Philosopher’s Stone, the virtual exhibition is a treasure trove for Potterheads.

Step back in time to the beginning of Harry Potter's journey transformed from an idea into a beloved reading phenomenon.

Harry Potter: A History of Magic / Virtual Exhibition

credits: Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

Some guidelines:

• Get an special look at how curator Julian Harrison created the exhibition about magic.

• Explore the exhibition by Hogwarts subject, delving into potions or care of magical creatures as you see fit.

• Browse through the amazing collection of objects like broomsticks and crystal balls throughout history.

• Illustrator Jim Kay shares his process of creating the new covers for the Harry Potter Illustrated editions.

• Study like Hermione Granger and dive into the online exhibitions of potions, alchemy, defense against the dark arts and so much more!

From browsing original sketches by J.K. Rowling to exploring the world of fantastic beasts, Google Arts has truly created something magical for fans to see the exhibit from anywhere in the world. 

It's  an experience I can't wait to go on this virtual magical journey. What about you and your students?

• Skills for a modern wizard: 4 lessons in Muggle Magic:

There’s also an exclusive video of YouTube sensations the Super Carlin Brothers, aka Ben and J, sitting down with the British Library exhibition’s Lead Curator, Julian Harrison, to discuss wizarding skills. 

Students can check out their interview… and be warned, it contains a rather gross-looking mermaid.

Harry Potter: A History of Magic has seen the Library’s first foray into the world of augmented reality. Here's a peek at how Google Arts & Culture has allowed our visitors to explore the beautiful Celestial Globe in the exhibition!

A 360-degree tour of the Divination Room is also on offer. Other exhibits include medieval manuscripts, precious printed books and Chinese oracle bones to explore magical traditions, from the making of potions to the harvesting of poisonous plants, and from the study of the night sky to the uses of unicorns. 

Harry Potter: A History of Magic / Virtual Exhibition

credits: Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/

• Languages:

Ten original exhibits in six languages - English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese - are available to peruse using the dark magic that is Google.

Teachers and students visit Google Arts & Culture and have a rummage around in the goodies on display. 

Have your students got their wands and notebooks at the ready? Go! Be warned, though. You may well be playing on this page for hours. I've been playing for some hours while writing this post! 

Yes! I'm a huge fan of Harry Potter. I taught the first Potterheads in 1999. They arrived at school with first smartphones and a special book! Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone. 

G-Souto

01.03.2018

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Reading Harry Potter : What now?

Harry Potter's world

Photomontage: Maxton Walker

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As one of the educators who teached the 1st generation who grew up with Harry Potter's saga, reading Harry Potter books in the classroom and going to the the theaters to see some Harry Potter movies with my students, I feel myself such a fan as the "Harry Potter's Gen". 

And why? Because they have growing up in my courses of Fiction and Poetry. We shared great moments in formal learning and non formal learning.  As an innovative educator, over the last several years I’ve explored online and blended learning options to my students.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

1st book of the saga

http://bloomsbury.com/uk/

Blended learning made it easier providing multiple learning strategies. The first elearning contents (2001) and PLN (2005) to Portuguese students in Secondary School - Languages curriculum - was mine.  

And first blogs in Education (2005): Portuguese (native language) and French (foreign langhuage to complete teaching an learning out of school.

I feel touched with the series over and all the events that are coming out. Yes, indeed. Harry Potter brought so many new young readers!

But, let's follow the last news! The release of the final film featuring "Harry Potter" the boy wizard is being treated as a momentous cultural event. You can remember here

July 13, it was the big day all almost all over the world! In Portugal, the big day was yesterday, July 14 and all sessions were completely sold out! 

Premiere in London

credits: Katherine Rose for the Observer

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July 13, it was the big world day for Harry Potter fans! In Portugal the big day was yesterday, July 14 and all sessions completely sold out! 

Excited fans spilled out of the lobby of cinemas, and into the streets near by. In Portugal, all the best cinemas are in the molls. Lots of fans around the lobby waiting for hours the 'premiere'.

Of course, I am going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrous - part 2. Not now! I will wait for quite days.

14 years ago Harry Potter first captured our imaginations - my students' imagination and mine reading the first five books in the classroom.

Take a look back at Harry Potter's most memorable moments over the past ten years of Harry Potter's movies:

‎"You're a wizard, Harry." From the moment Hagrid whisked him away to Hogwarts on his 11th birthday, Harry has experienced the most magical adventures (some more dangerous than others), and we have been with him every step of the way.

The final chapter of the Harry Potter series may have been closed, but it looks like fans of the boy wizard can look forward to new adventures as author JK Rowling turns her hand to online news.

JK Rowling annoucement

credits: Paul Grover

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"I'm writing, and I've done quite a lot since finishing 'Harry,' " (...) "I also felt I wanted the last film out of the way before I made any moves on the publishing front. 'Harry' is so huge and I suppose my involvement with the world has still been quite intense. This feels like a new beginning to me."

JK Rowling

And there we are! Suddenly, one month before the final part of the series' adapatation, fans were suprised for a new project. 

First, Pottermore.com unveiled June, 16 and the wonderful countdown clock on YouTube

After Rowling announced via a web video that she will be opening Pottermore, an online website for fans that she described as "an online reading experience unlike any other."

Pottermore

http://press.pottermore.com

And Pottermore.com unveiled three special previews of one of the Pottermore chapters: 

• An introduction to Chapter 6: 'The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters' ; 

• Discovering some exclusive J.K. Rowling content ; 

• Preview New from J.K. Rowling here

Pottermore Insider

nsider.pottermore.com

Yesterday, July 14, on @pottermore the new unveiled: The Pottermore Insider: 

"Welcome to Pottermore’s official blog, the Pottermore Insider"

So, fans will have some more! For the moment, an official Pottermore wallpaper for fans' desktop, tablet or smartphone.

"It's kind of sad," remarks Charlotte, 14. Stephanie, 15, agrees: "We've grown up with these films."

Yes, one or two "Harry Potter's Gen" were grown up with the books and the movies' adaptation, but a new one will growing with the Harry Potter e-books. 

Pottermore

https://www.pottermore.com/

Education:


Students will be back to school later this summer. Educators have now wonderful resources to captivate students to read in school! 


Harry Potter saga : resources

• Books

• Movies

• Games

• e-Books 

and some more. Just can't wait for October!


This is the good aim of this post! The importance of reading in school! No matter the resources we choose and there are a good number to include into school curriculum in formal learning or informal learning.

J.K. Rowling

credits: Toby Canham/Getty Images

The Potter movies weren't just an adaptation of a series of books, but a living, evolving collaborative phenomenon between pages and screen.


"The performance or display of a movie by teachers in a course of face-to-face teaching activities in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction like learning environment can be one of the most interesting educational resources for k-12 and junior high-school. 
It's a rich interactive approach of exploring Literature for children and youth. Students enjoy it a lot."


G.Souto

Harry Potter and the  Deathly Hallows (Part 2)

pottermore.wikia.com

Now, it's different. In school, we have the generations who watched the movies before reading the books. 


Even more! Next academic year, educators will have the first generation reading Harry Potter on web2! And, of course, as innovative educators you will not miss such a awesome interative resource.

My thoughts:

In the 90's, Harry Potter were the first books that contained a suitable number of pages and a good story to captivate young people really absorved into a book.

Diversity in children and adolescents' books had long been a complex issue. Since there, despite good  efforts and some big strides forward in the years before, children's books remained disappointingly short of enough culturally diverse stories.

So this is about some very well-known books. It makes a change to the sort of books teachers normally read in their lessons.


Harry Potter final books contain some gothic elements, such as an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, some unexplicable events, supernatural creatures and ocurrences such as prophecies and visions. Young people love it!


"Potter heptalogy, the 'archetypal' modern gothic novel, with an orphan who fulfills a prophecy and gradually develops his magic powers comes from two things: the Cornish landscapes, which are very similar to those around Hogwarts. Secondly and bove all, three larger-than-life characters cannot have a place in a conventional realistic novel."


And movies! Displaying a movie in a face-to-face lesson, or going to the movies with a class allows to explore the incredible adventure of 3D before reading the books.

Don't underestimate the power of magic of reading in the classroom with your students appealing to all the captivating resources we have now.

Resources for Teachers:

"Harry Potter saga in the classroom!": you will find several posts on this blog (for teachers) And in other two blogs (for students): BlogdosCaloiros (Portuguese native language) and BlogSkidz (French foreign language) two different blogs created to my students exploring educational digital resources in and out the school.

The great Harry Potter viewing marathon, The Guardian | Culture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011

The importance of reading in the school

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2011

Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton in the classroom

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2010

Games in Schools

http://games.eun.org/2009

Amis moldus testez vos connaissances sur l'univers d'Harry Potter (quiz)

http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/quiz

Harry Potter and the A-Z of Magic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/

Harry Potter | Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

Harry Potter Wiki

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/

"Dans quinze ans, des critiques de cinéma quadragénaires qui ont connu leurs premiers émois en voyant L'Ecole des sorciers établiront de rigoureux classements qui diront les mérites respectifs de Harry Potter, du Seigneur des anneaux et de Transformers. Les élèves de Poudlard devraient y figurer honorablement."


Lemonde.fr | Cinéma

"Rowling has shown superhuman strength in transcending this and ignoring the constant belittling of her talent from jealous peers. She has paid her success forward as a patron, activist and philanthropist. In her wake is a generation of writers creating brilliant young adult fantasy series."


The Guardian | News

G-Souto


15.07.2011
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