We are all going iPad mad!

I am just about to start on the Zu3d sessions on the animation for learning section of the learning futures module with year 3 of Ed Studies.  I really like using Zu3d, there are so many aspect to it for such a child friendly application.  I chose it initially when I was teaching on the primary initial teacher training ICT course.  I was hooked, fortunate enough to have the creator, Dave Henley, come to the university about 5 years ago to show us how it worked. Since then the application has gone from strength to strength. Along side the stop-motion animation, it now has a drawing tools section with a fabulous creative pens and paint brushes that can be used stand alone or with the stop-motion aspects.  There is a chroma key, or green screening, section with some excellent video tutorials to help get you up and running.  And now, yes just like the Doink from the post below, there is an iPad app too! Well Zu3d was never a web 2 app, so the iPad aspect is just a bonus really.  Check out the website and the tutorials and have a go, you too can lose hours of your live animating!

Doink has changed...well don't we all?

I posted about some new Web 2 tools that I had found in April 2012. One of the was Doink an online animation application. Sadly it is no more, well no more a free Web 2 app. It is now available for the iPad or iPod. "Do Ink Animation & Drawing for the iPad lets you create your own library of drawings and animations, combining and remixing them in an endless variety of ways. Great for beginners and pros alike. Use it to share your ideas with the world, use it for school, or use it just for fun!" I'm sure that you can still have lots of fun and create some great stuff, you cam probably embed it on your blog or wiki too. You will just need to be more creative.

Amusing...but true!

If this resonates with you, it will make you do one of two things, smile (or even laugh) and want to share it. I watched this on one of my student's blogs and thought, just as she did, what a clever man, and like all funny, clever people he has touched the truth so close we can feel it!

Why Use Audio in Learning and Teaching?

A discussion of the IMPALA (http://www.impala.ac.uk/), an HEA funded project, was setup in 2006 to investigate the impact ofpodcasting on student learning.