Imagination highway!!!

This film was made by using dfilm.


Zimmer Twins Movie Maker

What A Feeling!!
http://zimmertwins.com/node/1051228

Very useful to understand the importance of sequencing, story line, charcaters and movement.



Build your wild self
Build your wild self is great to get students thinking outside the box. They can create another creature you wish. Enables students to experiment and change things around without being restricted.

Food for thought!!!

Todays M&M's colour chart was created by using Excel. Very interesting and lots of possibilities. This is a program I believe that students can get caught up with and have great fun while learning. This can simply turn any ordinary pencil and paper activity to one of great enjoyment and interaction.

Todays second piece was working with Inspiration. It involved cutting and pasting in pictires from the Dust Echoes stories. This is a great idea which engages children into a particular activity which can be introduced across many topics in the curriculum. Introducing children at any level will have benefits as skills can range from working the mouse and cutting and pasting to more complex skills for older year levels.

It all starts with a jump...

In this weeks workshop we were introduced to a frog activity which went along with doing a design brief. The frog activity was a great one to get people to think and create something only using the basics. the great thing about this activity is that there is not wrong or right answer. As long as your frog has move from one position to another it is considered as an attempt to make it jump, even if you may think it wasn't the most effective. A simple activity such as this brings so much to the classroom environment. The issue of safety i.e. the use of equipment such as scissors, collaboration and creativity, team building skills and the opportunity to grow for each other. All this by using a paper frog, piece of sticky tape, a strip of cardboard, a pair of scissors and a rubber band. Further on we were shown how to use QUIA. This website enables people to make up their own learning games and activities based on any topic. It form a great way to develop and strengthen students' understanding of a particular topic. Not only do they get to challenge themselves but they get to have fun as well.

Anyone for a holiday?

Here is my brochure. I got so caught up in it and I only had about 10 minutes to do it in. This type of presentation forms a fresh, new, informative way to present information. Students can get creative with text, pictures and designs. As said by Sir Ken Robinson, 'We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it.' Having technology available to students in order to express things in a different form instead of pen and paper plays an important roll in allowing them to express and explore their creativity. With activities such as this, there is no room for boundaries. The possibilities are almost endless. 

Inspired by Inspiration

Hi, I am writing my first blog. Now i understand why people can get so addicted to this. There are endless possibilities. This was really exciting. It is such a valuable tool to be able to present and research information while being able to make connections that children are able to comprehend. Inspiration is vital as it bring a new component of interest to each task that is at hand. It give opportunity fro students to be creative while completing areas of work teacher will need to be assessing. Another aspect of this program which I found really useful for teachers use as well as students was the hyperlink tool. After playing around with the program I worked out that it is a simple and straight forward program to use...It is very exciting!!