Move over Windows Movie Maker – and start making movies on a PC/laptop with the free Microsoft Photos app! If you previously had been used to using Windows Movie Maker to quickly create videos, you may not even have noticed on devices running Windows 10 and later that you have the latest version of the …
Category: Moving Image Education
Apple Clips for Creating Videos for Sharing Learning
Apple Clips is a neat free video-creation app for iPad or iPhone. It lets you quickly combine text, music, graphics, recorded voice, images, and animations to create videos with ease. So if you are trying to find a way to explain a topic or a teaching point then you might find Apple Clips a handy …
Making animated videos with Magic Move on Keynote iPad app
Making Magic move Animations to demonstrate learning – the iPad presentation creation app Keynote has a Magic Move tool which gives you the option to make objects appear to move around the screen when the presentation is set to play. So learners can readily create animated videos on an iPad using images which move, rotate, …
Stop-motion animation with Stikbot iPad app in the classroom
Stop-motion animation creation by pupils in a classroom is an engaging way for learners to demonstrate their learning. Whether that’s showing the steps in the processes involved in a numerical calculation (from something as simple as showing the story of 5 for young learners, or how to do long division to more complex mathematical equations); or to illustrate a …
Get Going with Green Screen film-making in the classroom
So what is green-screen? Essentially it’s using software or an app to combine different images or video so that one appears as if part of the other. The green screen part makes use of chroma-key feature of the app so that anyone standing in front of a green screen will appear in the video with the …
Creating and editing a film in the classroom with iMovie on an iPad
Creating and editing a film in the classroom with an iPad can be done with the iMovie app. View this Sway presentation about using iMovie on your iPad in the classroom for help on getting started as well as tips on using some of the neat features such as adding video-in-video or picture in picture …
Making Memes and Animated Gifs for Learning
Memes and animated gifs abound in social media. You don’t have to look too long online to see these appear, often being shared and shared by many people via their social media accounts, or prominent on webpages or blogposts to draw in the reader to find out more about a story or data. Having learners …
Developing Media Literacy with Moving Image Education
Cultures through centuries might be seen to have promoted their shared values through story-telling (oral or written), songs, and visual art. Nowadays many would argue that the moving image (whether television, films or animations) has become a major tool for telling stories, sharing ideas, or seeking to change opinions. As such it is seen to be very …
