245 - About that Map

Day 245. Yesterday I showed you some little buildings and structures cards I made for my Year classes to do a mapping activity. Today's create is a video explaining how to use them. I'll be heading over to Singapore on Thursday for the EdTechTeam Summit, and I didn't want my Thursday class to fall behind the others so I made this video for their teacher to show at the start of the lesson so that even though I'm not there they can still get things done.

112 - I'm No Dummy

Day 112. This fine piece of silliness was made using an iPad app called Morfo. It captures an image of your face, then allows you to map out the main features in order to animate it. Obviously it comes with a bunch of silly costumes, but the potential in the classroom is pretty interesting.

This was uploaded using the YouTube Capture app, with music added from the YouTube open music library.

078 - Chalk and Talk

Day 78. At school today we had a fun activity for our Year 11 homerooms. As a group, they had to come up with a chalk drawing based on a given theme. After a bit of brainstorming the day before, they created this idea for their artwork. I propped up the iPad and set iMotion to shoot a frame every 5 seconds to create this short video of their work.

I'll bet you can't guess the theme. Partly because I'm not sure we actually met the brief for the theme at all, but mostly because the theme was pretty darn obscure in the first place.

076 - 300 Frames

We live just up the street from a frame shop, which sits on the corner of the intersection. While out walking the dog tonight I stopped near the frame shop and was struck with an idea to make a stop frame animation. So this is 300 frames at the frame shop.

It was shot on my Nexus 4 phone using an app called Lapse It Pro, then rendered and exported as 720 mp4 files, editing with a Android Movie Studio, and uploaded to YouTube. It's proof that you can make media on Android but let's be honest, it's still got a lot of catching up to do to compare with the media production capabilities of iOS.

027 - Unnatural Acts

Sitting at my desk, weird things sometimes happen. This is the true story about the forbidden love between an Android phone and an iPad VGA adapter. Now let us never speak of it again.

 

022 - Row your Boat

Day 22. I was at Dragon Boat training this afternoon so I grabbed the iPad mini and used an app called iStopMotion to make a quick little video. Just another simple proof of concept video to show how easy it is to shoot stop motion stuff with an iPad.