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The greatest idea I ever had…

November 12, 2009 - Equipment, Tips and Techniques - By: Chris

Pic: CC - Martin Charbonneau…apart from the Creme Egg toastie.

For simple impact to cost ratio this was a belter.
We have lots of headphones. I mean, hundreds! They get boxed up at the end of our sessions as they’re mostly attached to…

Digital Photography in York

October 14, 2009 - Tips and Techniques, Web Tools - By: Chris

Pic: York MinsterI was invited last week to support a creative session at the Sheffield Primary Headteachers’ Conference in York on digital imaging. It was run by Rob Walker from Playing for Success with me tagging along and throwing in my tuppence-worth.

I thought I’d share the results with you.

Adobe Clip Notes – Collaborative video annotation

September 9, 2009 - Tips and Techniques, software - By: Chris

Pic: prem cs3Adobe Premiere CS3 and 4 allow you to render a movie to Quicktime or Windows Media and embed it in a pdf. When you share the pdf it allows you to play the video and add annotations at specific points in the movie. Many users can add comments so you can build up a converstation about a particular video clip.

Making stop-motion animation

August 11, 2009 - Site of the Week, Tips and Techniques - By: Chris

M’learned colleague at Sheffield South CLC, Catherine Moore has been using her summer profitably. She’s made a short how-to about making stop motion animation. I particularly like the paper clip fish.