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Animation and Cinema

PROJECT Curricular Areas: Visual Media in Language & Literacy, Art, Music and ICT. Learning Opportunities & Skills: Reading comprehension, creative writing, collaboration, script writing and animation. About this Line: Based on a traditional tale or literary work, this project helps students develop different skills related to the arts and literacy. Students are asked to select, read and interpret a  Full Article…

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Blokify – best 3D printer idea. Ever.

Actually, the only reason why I wrote the last post ‘I want one of those’ about 3D printers was that I wanted to post this about Blokify, which actually needs a 3D printer! It is a standing joke in the Pontydysgu office that I am officially boss of toys while the rest of them get on with  Full Article…

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Drawdio

Father Christmas brought me a great new toy and I  spent most of last weekend playing with Gethin, Ffion, Gweno and Bronwyn (diolch plant!) and the DRAWDIO ‘pen’. Drawdio is another amazing bit of kit from Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum from MIT Lifelong Kindergarten, the same stable as Makey Makey which we featured in  Full Article…

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Mosaics and Pixels

Age          11yrs Ease ** Overview: This activity allows learners to create and develop a real mosaic using coloured stones/card squares to represent pixels. It helps them understand the theory of image production by studying the history of mosaic and the representation of electronic images produced by printers which operate using pixels  Full Article…

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