Flickr seem to have recently hidden the ability to embed a slideshow of an album into a blog post or website. This can often be really handy if you are dealing with more than a couple of photos. After all, who wants to scroll down a huge page of photos? The instructions below work with Drupal, but it will be …
Socrative training
I’ve been delivering INSET this week around making educational use of the excellent ‘Socrative‘. At it’s simplest, Socrative is an online quiz maker. It allows a teacher to broadcast questions to the members of their virtual ‘classroom’ and collect responses in real time. Children can connect to the online ‘room’ by simply going to the Socrative website or loading the …
Crazytalk 7 – £18 well spent!
Crazytalk 7 is an app for Mac or Windows which allows pictures to be easily turned into talking animations. Anything which has facial like features can be used – and the object can be at any angle and facing in any direction. Imagine the possibilities in the classroom either as a stimulus for all types of learning or as a …
‘Explain Everything’ iPad app used to tell a story
Explain Everything is an excellent iPad app that has huge potential in the classroom. The example here shows how it can be used as an alternative to stop frame animation. Although it can’t achieve some of the things which stop frame can (like animation of 3d objects such as lego), it’s brilliant for animation of drawn objects, and children can …
Stop frame animation
Children created stop frame animations based around the book ‘Dinosaurs and all that rubbish’ (Michael Foreman). Each group used Kudlian’s ‘I Can Animate’ on a laptop together with Lumens DC120 Visualizer. One they had created the animation, they used the free Audacity software to record and edit speech and sound effects and then Microsoft Movie Maker on Windows 7 to …
Scratch examples
Here are some quick examples of coding. Children have used the excellent, free, Scratch to create their work. All of this was created in children’s own time, some for fun and some for home learning activities. It’s not all necessarily polished, perfect or complete, but shows the sorts of things that children might have a go at. If you need help …
Use of iPads and Video with green screen / chroma key
This week I’ve been working with year 6 children producing raps. The children had a great time writing and performing using rhyming couplets to tell a story. We used iPads to record video against a blue backdrop – a tarpaulin stapled to a wall. Next, we grabbed appropriate pictures and video from the Internet and used Cyberlink Power Director on a …