Pixar: The maths behind the movies [@TedTalks]
The folks at Pixar are widely known as some of the world's best storytellers and animators. They are perhaps less recognized as some of the most innovative math whizzes around. I loved this TED Talk...
View ArticleReflections from the #IntelVisionaries Launch Event, October 2015: 6 of 17 –...
This is part of a short series of posts where I reflect on the inaugural Intel Education Visionaries meet up in Santa Clara, California in October 2015....
View ArticleMaking Memes and Animated Gifs for Learning
Memes and animated gifs abound in social media. You don’t have to look too long online to see these appear, often being shared and shared by many people via their social media accounts, or prominent on...
View ArticleReflections from the #IntelVisionaries Launch Event, October 2015: 6 of 17 –...
This is part of a short series of posts where I reflect on the inaugural Intel Education Visionaries meet up in Santa Clara, California in October 2015....
View ArticleWick
Last week I posted about the end of Flash, one of the thing I regretted was the loss of a tool to teach animation. This week I noticed Wick: The Internet’s Free and Open-Source Creation Toolkit. This...
View ArticleStop-motion animation with Stikbot iPad app in the classroom
Stop-motion animation creation by pupils in a classroom is an engaging way for learners to demonstrate their learning. Whether that’s showing the steps in the processes involved in a numerical...
View ArticleMaking animated videos with Magic Move on Keynote iPad app
Making Magic move Animations to demonstrate learning – the iPad presentation creation app Keynote has a Magic Move tool which gives you the option to make objects appear to move around the screen when...
View ArticleApple Clips for Creating Videos for Sharing Learning
Apple Clips is a neat free video-creation app for iPad or iPhone. It lets you quickly combine text, music, graphics, recorded voice, images, and animations to create videos with ease. So if you are...
View ArticleAnd…Action! Creating a Teaching Video
Looking to create a teaching video? If you wish to create a teaching video to share with your class then where do you start? There are a number of different ways to create a teaching video. You don’t...
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