Aardman animation

Tate and Aardman tap children’s ideas for Wallace & Gromit-style movie
Tate teams up with Nick Park’s Aardman to give children chance to create characters, stories and drawings for animated film
Charlotte Higgins – Guardian 19/10/2009

A class of ipod touches

Oh Lord won’t you buy me a school load of ipod touches. ( With apologies to Janis)

What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?
from Learn for Life

Digital Starters

A brilliant post from Simon Mills about using Wallace & Gromit videos as digital starters for explaining processes.

The Tellyscope
The Snoozatron
There is an ongoing list of ‘Digital Starters’ or Multimodal Starting Points which can be found on our school site – E-Learning – English – Film

24 Ideas for Inspiring writing

A Google Docs presentation
24 Ideas for Inspiring Writing
from Mark Warner.
Also a new website

Scratch Resources

This came up in Simon Mill’s (ICT Inspirations Blog) del.icio.us.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We have one or two pages here that explain Scratch.

Animation for Education

A network for anyone interested in animation in schools.
An Animation Ning.
Ning? It’s a small scale social network. Create your own Ning for anything.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With  a nice crossover to MFL from Lisa Stevens.
El Carnaval de los Animales – 4VH get animated!

Using Google Docs in class.

An excellent series of posts about using GoogleDocs in a Primary Classroom from Tom Barrett

Pictograms in Excel

Simon Mills is a font of knowledge.

The Value of Pivot

From Simon Mills at ICT Inspirations.

Download a copy of Pivot

Line Graph Story Telling

An excellent idea from Simon Mills at ICT Inspirations