Tag Archives: creativity
Animation10
Manchester University’s Animation10 project is open for submissions. Create a 1-minute animation using software from the list below and you stand a chance of being invited to the Animation Festival and prizegiving at The Lowry in Salford Quays, Manchester. Age … Continue reading
That time of year again
Enjoy the countdown to Christmas with an Advent calendar! There are numerous advent calendars out there, but a new resource from Twitter’s @andyfield gives instructions for creating your own calendar on his EffectiveICT site. This resource could be used in … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, animation, Christmas, creativity, Enhancing the curriculum, flash, programming, sequencing
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Sequencing for fun
Scratch is a great programming/sequencing environment, intuitive and fun to use. Yet it’s made much more fun with the addition of a pico board. A pico board is an interface with a load of sensors on it. Scratch can be … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, Enhancing the curriculum, fun, Hardware, programming, sequencing
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Teachmeet Bett ’09
Teachmeet at BETT seems to have gathered some momentum and organisation this week. Teachmeet will be at Olympia on the Friday of BETT starting at 6pm and running until about 9pm. At present the following people have agreed to talk: … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Learning
Tagged BETT09, CPD, creativity, Enhancing the curriculum, hints and tips, ICT, innovation, Learning, teachmeet
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Shropshire Create IT! 09
This competition is only open to Shropshire maintained schools. Tweet This Post
Posted in Shropshire, animation, podcast, video
Tagged animation, competition, computer game, creativity, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Learning, podcast, Shropshire, video
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Animation Course
On 5th December at the Institute of Education in London. The day long course is for those who’ve had a go and want to learn some new tips tricks perfect fro classroom projects. As well as chroma keying, beats within … Continue reading
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Tagged animate, animation, CPD, creativity, Enhancing the curriculum, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
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Comic Life
Shropshire LA have purchased Comic Life for all schools in the authority. Further details about the software along with the registration code and download details can be accessed here: www.shropshirelg.net/resources/lasoftware/Pages/comiclife.aspx It would be great if schools could share how they … Continue reading
Headline History
The latest ictopus newsletter mentioned a website which enabled pupils to read newspaper style articles about the Tudoes, WWII, Victorians and Romans. So I headed to http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/ to take a look. Its even better than that – pupils can read about … Continue reading
Posted in English, Enhancing the curriculum, History
Tagged creativity, English, enhancing the curriculum, Enhancing the curriculum, History
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DIY-Picasso – a source of starting points and stimulus.
Those doing work on Picasso might be interested in Mr. Picassohead, a site that allows you to create your own masterpiece in the style of the great master. Using drag and drop onscreen, pupils can quickly and easily create those … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Enhancing the curriculum, Learning
Tagged Art, creativity, elearning, Enhancing the curriculum, FLOSS, Freeware, Hands on Support, Learning, stimulus, Web 2.0
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