Stop motion animation is the process of taking a sequence of photographs, making minor changes between each shot and then sequencing all images into an animated film. Traditionally stop motion animation involved clay / plasticine figures being moved just a fraction of a millimetre for each shot. Famous examples of stop frame animation include Peter [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Our First Film (by two seven-year-olds)
January 7th, 2011
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This short movie “The Hunt for the Xmas Monster” was produced by my daughter Lucy and friend Holly (both aged 7). The girls wrote the entire script themselves, and captured most of the footage although I had to help out when they were both on camera together. The only other help I gave was in [...]
Common Craft in the classroom
December 12th, 2010
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Common Craft videos are fantastic. The Common Craft strap-line on their website reads “our product is explanation” and that’s exactly what they do. They use simple but effective visuals and scripts to get their point across in 3-4 minutes. A number of Common Craft videos are available on YouTube which means they can be easily embedded [...]
What is Computing?
March 16th, 2010
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Our S1 pupils are currently making their choices for S2/3. In Computing next year we will be offering a bi-level Intermediate 1 / Intermediate 2 Computing course. I thought the best way to introduce pupils to the subject would be to put together a short movie highlighting some of the interesting projects we wil be [...]
Six dynamic YouTube clips to help teach The Internet
March 7th, 2010
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Since my return to teaching 6 months ago, I have been surprised at how little things have really changed from an ICT perspective. However, one major resource which hadn’t even been invented when I was teaching the first time around is YouTube. Now whenever I start to develop a new lesson or course materials, I [...]
Information (R)evolution
November 30th, 2009
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In Information Systems we have been learning about the sheer scale of information we are bombarded with every day. I used this excellent short video clip from Michael Wesch to help exemplify the shift from traditional information management systems to the way we get information today. One of the really important points which the film [...]
