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09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in iPad, NYC Technology Summit Tags: Bluebee Pals, disturbing, ipad, plushies, stuffed animals
When I saw this display at the NYC school technology summit last week, I was mesmerized. Whether by fear or delight, cannot say. Yes, these are talking stuffed animals called Bluebee Pals. Children will love them.
The animals move their mouths to speak what is on the iPad (or sing, chant, moan, growl, etc.) and they sway their little bodies and shuffle their limbs.
Here are additional videos:
The animals come with their own apps, and can speak anything that is on the iPad.
04 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in 176X, 23q, iPad, Queens Tags: blue screen, green screen, ipad, lifeline, movie
Who says you must use a green screen to make movie magic? This teacher used blue bulletin board paper hung from a wire across the room.
This was good for headshots and above-the-waist action.
04 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in iPad, Workshops Tags: Amanda McFee, do ink, green screen, ipad
Coworker Amanda is a green screen movie star. Here is the finished short
And here is the same movie, with the thin, gauzy veneer of reality torn asunder:
04 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in iPad, Workshops Tags: ipad, Lego, minifig, movie, stop motion studio
Well, not so much madness. But a couple good shorts from the IPad movies workshop I gave last month.
Here is one. We used Lego minifigs.
here is another
Have you made these ever?
so much fun
02 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in 811Q, iMovie, iPad Tags: green screen, ipad
A group of students planned to record themselves singing and dancing along to a movie video. Each students would then would then use that footage and the Green Screen by Do Ink app to digitally add themselves to the movie video. This is what the setup looked like:
03 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in 37R, 3D design Tags: 37R, 3D design, ipad
I cannot quite figure out what this is a model of, but I love the look of it. Maybe a student used an iPad. Does anyone regognize the app?
09 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in 721K, iPad Tags: 721K, ipad, Puppet Pals
Several students worked with me to create little movies using Puppet Pals HD Director’s Pass software. It is one of my all-time favorite iPad apps. In video 1 a student and I voiced super hero characters about to jump into the sky; the characters were made completely of pipe cleaners (the student is a master of the pipe cleaner medium). In other videos, the characters are cut-out pieces of paper with scribbles of vegetables on them (the students did the scribbling). In video 5, I voiced a Victorian British curator who lives in the Underground; he has artists describe their work.
09 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in art, digital story telling Tags: 6-word, ipad, six-word, skitch
As a spin on the Six-Word Memoir, we created Six-Word Stories. Students write six words that describe a photograph. The words can be a proper sentence or not; they can be funny, academic, thoughtful, etc. We used the Skitch app on the iPad to write the sentence. Here are two samples:
20 Dec 2010 Leave a comment
I was at a school last week and a teacher is using iPads in her alternate assessment classroom. It is very exciting. So far we are only using free apps…can any one out there recommend a non-free app?
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