Hambridge University - Take 3

Here's our latest take on the 'This is Me' project - I am so impressed, yet again!

http://cleverthingswemade.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hambridge-university-take-3.html

More animations

Dear All,

I've decided to go with Youtube for the videos for the time being, as blogger is quite slow to upload =(.

Here's the recent additions

Ashcott
From Freddy - Freddy - I don't know what's happened to the other pictures you did on the day, here's the few I have...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gZKkbJUKBk

Maisy, Emma and Tatiana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV7NtaEGfdE

Jacqueline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzb16F1f_Sk


North Newton

Block - here's the last one from the first week...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba_r3kKLEQY


The next in the snail series...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ65Ufqwq-Y


A surfing Dr Jekyll...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmRCuajNRyU

A dark tale...

Design Ideas for Animation

I spend a lot of my time getting ideas for animation for the children who come to my clubs. I carry loads of stuff around with me too, so I thought I'd put some ideas here, so that you can see them whenever you want.

Clay Stopmotion

I carry a lot of play-dough with me all the time. Its easy to make (here's a brilliant recipe from imaginationtree.com ) and cheap, though I'm experimenting with getting good colours at the moment. Here are some thins I've found while surfing...

http://afortnightofmustard.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html


http://www.orange-elephant.ru/master_classes/ball_clay/bear

Here's a great list http://pinterest.com/trifffany/clay-for-kids/ including

http://pinterest.com/pin/151222499959473420/



http://pinterest.com/pin/151222499958449334/

Here's a slightly different idea, but simple

https://pinterest.com/pin/480688960197906545/


https://pinterest.com/pin/480688960197906455/


http://wallpaperscraft.com/download/toys_cartoon_clay_kids_49255/1920x1080


http://www.ronitbaras.com/focus-on-the-family/parenting-family/how-to-raise-gifted-children-let-there-be-light/#.UbRbMee9FoA

Other fantastic ideas at http://theimaginationtree.com/2013/01/the-z-of-play-dough-recipes-and.html



http://www.amaco.com/amaco-lesson-plans/lesson-8-clay-animation/


http://www.ehow.com/list_6068630_different-types-modeling-clay.html

Backgrounds

Other Materials

http://pinterest.com/pin/33847434669694993/

Drawn

I recently bought a book from this website http://www.thaneeya.com/ and http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-make-a-pattern.html about colouring mandalas, and used her ideas to plan a lesson.

Her pictures are copyright, but I wanted to give you a flavour of her designs



This page, though, shows step by step how to build up a simple, yet beautiful design, and I hope that one of the children will pick up this idea and use it to animate their own short.

Other resources

How To
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-claymation-stopmotion-video/
http://www.amaco.com/amaco-lesson-plans/lesson-8-clay-animation/

Fractions Resources

Teaching Fractions
http://www.resourceroom.net/math/denominators.asp

Kyle's web page

Well done Kyle - I know this was hard work for you:
http://cleverthingswemade.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/kyles-webpage.html

Technology to Help Read and Write

Speech to text

The easiest way to speech to text seems to be by enabling Microsoft's accessibility options from the start menu, and as long as you have a microphone attached and set up, it will begin working. It takes some training time, but the more you use it, the more it learns your voice.

Written specially to assist with speech-to-text is Dragon Naturally Speaking. I've heard really good reviews of it.

Talktyper
An online alternative is http://talktyper.com/index.html, although I have to say I did find this quite frustrating. I don't even have much of an accent, so I don't know how it would work if you did - perhaps it was the quality of my microphone?

Another fantastic site
http://ictmagic.sharedby.co/share/lLTlfx just drag your written text to a wordprocessor document or however you want to use it...

Store your ideas as a recording

Croak.it

30 sound recording which is stored on a unique URL

http://croak.it/

New to North Newton

I'm really excited about my latest club at North Newton. I am really lucky to get such enthusiastic children at all the clubs I run, and they're no exception.

Find out more about the first week here...

And here's most of the brilliant videos from the second week...
http://cleverthingswemade.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/not-so-new-to-north-newton.html