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Create An Animated Lesson With GoAnimate4Schools
October 4, 2011 – 5:21 pm
Teachers and students can create animations easily with GoAnimate and with their paid-only education version, GoAnimate4Schools you can create school projects for students.
Design Principles and GoAnimate by Steve Moore
Here’s a teacher’s lesson on design principles. Check out more animated lessons by teachers in the lesson gallery.
Notice: Website Overhaul
October 4, 2011 – 1:53 pm
I’m doing some major tweaks to my website and am pretty much operating in the dark on this, so things may screw up. Presently, all previous blog post permalinks no longer work, but I’m trying to get it working again.
Wish me luck.
Update: I realised that I will need to work on a virtual private server at the very least to get the upgrades to work. All blog posts are back to normal and are working with their original permalinks. I have made some structural changes in terms of blog category hierarchies which will effect some blog posts. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Google Launches YouTube for Teachers
October 3, 2011 – 11:42 am
Google has supported education worldwide through numerous schemes, from Google Apps Edu, Google Teachers Academy, Google Science Fair and loads more. Earlier this year, those selected to attend the Google Teachers Academy and become Google Certified Teachers were also invited to attend a separate training for teaching with YouTube.
Now, Google has launched the channel YouTube Teachers. It covers tutorials on how to create a channel, ideas on how to use YouTube in the classroom and even video production tips from screencast tools to lighting.
From cheaper digital cameras with HD video recording capabilities to easy-to-use video editing software that even my mother could use, it is becoming increasingly easy for anyone to make a video and share it with the world. Even Mac OS X Lion now comes with built-in screencasting capabilities. Just as blogging first liberated the armchair journalists and writers to shift from information consumption to information creation, YouTube and improved technologies are allowing everyday users to create videos of their own.
As these technologies continue to improve we’ll start seeing not only teachers creating more content, but also students. Instead of presenting with a PowerPoint slides, students can create videos or use tools like Present.me to create pre-recorded video presentations.
Storyboarding
October 2, 2011 – 11:24 am
A storyboard is a series of illustrations used to pre-visualise a film or animation. Regardless of whether you’re making a two-minute video or a blockbuster movie, storyboards are essential in the video production process.
Check out the storyboard below and then compare it to the actual video. They start with the idea in mind, create a sketch of what the video should look like and then create their video.
Here’s another example, the video below is an excerpt from the making of Pixar’s Toy Story. Animated films like this one take over three to four years to produce and require working with hundreds of people, from script writers, animators, directors and artists. In order for everyone to visualise what the animated movie should be like, a storyboard is used to tell the story to the rest of the team.
You can more about the three stages of video production, namely, pre-production, production and post-production, at Video 101 with Professor Monkey.
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