Used this with Year Sixes to create stick-figure cartoons. It's great!! We used MailCatch to create temporary email addresses to register our own accounts. The children chose nine suitable backgrounds from Google Images and uploaded them to their own space on Go Animate Animation Studio area. After showing them the basics, they were quick to help each other (and me!) work out more advanced features, like changing the length of time the speech bubbles could stay on the screen. Unfortunately there are guns as props, so a discussion on audience and suitability was useful before we began.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Go Animate - make your own cartoons
Used this with Year Sixes to create stick-figure cartoons. It's great!! We used MailCatch to create temporary email addresses to register our own accounts. The children chose nine suitable backgrounds from Google Images and uploaded them to their own space on Go Animate Animation Studio area. After showing them the basics, they were quick to help each other (and me!) work out more advanced features, like changing the length of time the speech bubbles could stay on the screen. Unfortunately there are guns as props, so a discussion on audience and suitability was useful before we began.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
ZooBurst - 3D Popup books
This is a site for creating 'augmented reality 3d popup books' - Zooburst approves your application for joining (mine within 12 hours or so) and you are ready to create your own stories using photos, or creative commons pictures available from the site. You can control the timings of each popup element on the page, and have a series of pages to tell your story. Well worth a look and suitable for Year 3 upwards I would suggest.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
purplemash.com
Used with Year 2 today to describe their favourite toys. Worked a dream - does anyone still buy software any more?! Will see how it integrates with Merlin (VLE) when I have a spare minute.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Create a Graph
Great for producing all kinds of graphs, Create a Graph worked well today with mixed ability Year 4s tabulating results of World Cup data! The graphs can be exported in any number of ways - pdf, jpeg,bmp; emailed or printed. Useful preview function then you can go back and make any necessary changes. Recommended.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Mailcatch easy email address creation
There's a really easy way now for children to sign up for a web 2.0 service, without having to use a 'real' email address - using VoiceThread or GoogleDocs is going to be easier now I've discovered this site! They are disposable email addresses that create temporary mailboxes, so you can easily register on a site that needs an email address. When signing up for a service, simply use a mailcatch 'address' you have created, and use the site to check for your confirmation email, and click through to activate the service! No spam, child protection issues, as the children cannot reply to any messages, and they are also temporary - the messages are not kept for long, by all accounts. Brilliant!
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