In October 2022, we set Falkirk schools a new challenge task for Halloween – to use MarkUp on their Connected Falkirk devices to create their own Halloween costume. Find out more about the challenge itself and the spooktacular results below.
The Challenge
The Task
Who's up for a Halloween challenge?🎃
We want to see who can create the best Halloween costume using camera and Markup on your Connected Falkirk Device🧙♀️🧟♂️🖌️
Just take a picture📸and then get creative! See the comments for some examples👇We can't wait to see your results🤩 pic.twitter.com/tLz6EeAvZb
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 24, 2022
Examples
Excited to finally be able to fulfill my lifelong ambition to be Harry Potter 🧹🪄 ^Lauren pic.twitter.com/EtCE8id22w
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 24, 2022
Clowning around using camera, markup and keynote to make my first Halloween costume of the year as an animated GIF 🤡 (I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to all my old art teachers for these examples 🫣) #costumecontest pic.twitter.com/mvbGcaFvVn
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 24, 2022
💡Idea
Secondary teachers 📢 For Halloween why not get pupils to do the #MarkupMagic Challenge as a quick starter and get them to design a costume specifically related to your subject or current topic? 👑🏃📖👩🎤Famous scientist example below 👇🥼 pic.twitter.com/dXexZXWyBw
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 27, 2022
How-To Make An Animated GIF
A few people have asked how I turned my clown Halloween Challenge Task costume drawing into an animated GIF 🤡 Here's a quick wee how-to video that should help 👍▶️ https://t.co/WudmKOi1Xg pic.twitter.com/EzxYYmj7KZ
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 25, 2022
The Results
Celebrating Success – A Halloween Costume Collage
Happy Halloween from Connected Falkirk! 🎃
Thank you so much to everyone who got involved in our Halloween Challenge Task for this year – Markup Magic 🧙♀️🤡
We received over 150 excellent examples of pupil costumes and used them to create our Halloween picture message below 👇🪄 pic.twitter.com/Ix9ZKHQMSi
— Connected Falkirk (@ConnectedFalk) October 31, 2022
Thanks you @ConnectedFalk, we really enjoyed taking part in the Halloween #CostumeContest! 🎃 Can you spot your design amongst the photos @DeanburnPS_P7? #markup #magic #halloween #costume #contest #fun pic.twitter.com/DfAADyG0Sf
— Deanburn PS P3 (@DeanburnPS_P3) November 8, 2022
Thanks @ConnectedFalk our pupils really enjoyed this task! We look forward to the next one! @BonessAcadLib pic.twitter.com/mMPl64bm5q
— LA English/Literacy (@LALiteracy) November 8, 2022
We used the Mark Up tool on the iPads to create spooky Halloween pictures from objects in the classroom! Ask us how we used this tool! 🎃👻🧙#iPads #MarkUp #Photos #Halloween #Spooky #ICT #Confidence #Fun #Sharing @ConnectedFalk 😊 pic.twitter.com/YNwx4Jwfof
— DeanburnPS P7A (@DeanburnPS_P7A) November 2, 2022
We took part in the #MarkUpChallenge @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/JFDQAMWSud
— Miss Risk P6K (@beanxmissrisk) November 1, 2022
Some Halloween markup fun today. We loved being creative! 👻 🎃 @ConnectedFalk @RAiSE_falkirk pic.twitter.com/MdKnQRf5wh
— MPS_P7 (@MPS_P7) October 31, 2022
More of our Halloween fun afternoon!
We decorated skulls, did some spooky drawings and made 3D pumpkins! @ConnectedFalk challenged us to use markup on the iPads to create Halloween costumes! Here are some of our designs 😆👻🧙🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/i1I1HqziDV
— Mrs Manuel (@KPS_Primary5M) October 31, 2022
1/ 22 Today we created some spooky animated gifs using our @ConnectedFalk devices. So many digital skills being developed in this activity; screen shot, remove background, mark-up and animate. Don’t they look great! @RAiSE_falkirk pic.twitter.com/0oCUNtYMB8
— Mrs McKay (@MrsMcKayDigital) October 31, 2022
P7M enjoyed taking part in the @ConnectedFalk Halloween challenge today! pic.twitter.com/7gvLb3EhU1
— St Margaret's PS (@stmargaretsps) October 31, 2022
P6C had a great time doing the #markupmagic challenge during Art this week for @ConnectedFalk! Can anyone guess who is under the costumes!? 🧛♀️ 🎃 👻 #banttech #bantdigital #bantcreativity pic.twitter.com/DRylO34J21
— Bantaskin P6C (@BantMissCollins) October 31, 2022
My daughter J had a fantastic time at school creating this with you, thank you so much pic.twitter.com/oRZoDtDlLH
— Julie mcgillivray (@JoolsMcG) October 29, 2022
1. Today we had so much fun participating in the Halloween Markup challenge from @ConnectedFalk
Can you tell who is hiding behind each costume? @Kinneil_PS pic.twitter.com/f8xgIbQ8Lh— MrsMcMurdoP3M (@MrsMcMurdoKPS) October 28, 2022
We had fun clowning around and taking part in the @ConnectedFalk Halloween #MarkupMagic task 🎃 pic.twitter.com/oHf9hH9PMH
— St Andrew’s P6A (@MrsAdamsP6) October 28, 2022
We created animated Hallowe’en costumes GIFs using KeyNote for the #markupmagic challenge 🎃 🧙👻💀@ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/gfNTK9jXQG
— Miss McLuckie (@MissMcLuckieHPS) October 28, 2022
P7M developed the skills in creating animated GIFs. Taking on the @ConnectedFalk Halloween Challenge they learned how to animate a photo using Keynote! Outstanding! 5 of 5 🎃 🤩👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/gtWm2iljju
— Mr McGrath (@MrJMcGrathCPS) October 28, 2022
We have been having lots of fun making our own animated gifs #markupmagic @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/EtI296unZ6
— MPS-Primary6 (@MPS_Primary6) October 28, 2022
We have been having lots of fun making our own animated gifs #markupmagic @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/lJZrZBE025
— MPS-Primary6 (@MPS_Primary6) October 28, 2022
We also got very creative using keynote to make an animated gif of us in Halloween costumes 💻👻🎃 @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/1fRfy3813x
— P6G (@P6GHOMPS) October 27, 2022
@ConnectedFalk Another great costume! #costumecontest @KPS_Primary6E pic.twitter.com/jGgTsFboDz
— Mrs Jack (@KPS_MrsJack) October 27, 2022
We were very excited today to create our animated Halloween costumes using our @ConnectedFalk iPads on the #keynoteapp #markupmagic 🎃 🧙👻💀🤡 pic.twitter.com/Tvrr70cTvV
— P7HWPS (@P7HWPS) October 26, 2022
What do you think @ConnectedFalk of our #costumecontest ideas! We had such fun creating these! 👻 🧟♂️ 🎃 😧 @KPS_Primary6E @KPS_DigiLeaders pic.twitter.com/PimHB5FOJV
— Mrs Jack (@KPS_MrsJack) October 26, 2022
We took part in the @ConnectedFalk challenge to create the best Halloween costume using camera and Markup 🧙♀️🧟♂️🖌️. Very creative and diverse results pic.twitter.com/MwJvzeEtb4
— Miss Thompson & P6_5 (@LauriestonP6_5) October 26, 2022
J used the Keynote and Markup on his iPa to create an animated GIF of his Halloween costume 🎃🎃 @MissCurrie_Slam @ConnectedFalk pic.twitter.com/mkLnNI5C7v
— Mrs Murray @Slamannan (@MrsMSlam2022) October 26, 2022
Trying it out with a clown to join you!! Thanks for the help video 👍 Can’t wait to try this with classes 👏🎃🤡👍😁 @dennyprimsch @nurserydennyps @ConnectedFalk @Miss_McKechnie pic.twitter.com/1BpIHzg7jE
— David Hedley (@MrH_DPS) October 25, 2022
@ConnectedFalk here are some of our completed #costumecontest entries! 👻🎃💀#halloween #costume #contest #digi #camera #markup #creative pic.twitter.com/yliFEJUaMb
— Deanburn PS P3 (@DeanburnPS_P3) October 25, 2022
@ConnectedFalk we are making a start on the #costumecontest this afternoon! Can’t wait to see the finished results! #halloween #costume #digi #camera #markup #sketchesschool #draw #colour 👻🎃💀 pic.twitter.com/jozStnyZx7
— Deanburn PS P3 (@DeanburnPS_P3) October 25, 2022
Challenge accepted – camera and markup magic @ConnectedFalk @BonessAcadLib pic.twitter.com/kE1fMTO0KO
— LA English/Literacy (@LALiteracy) October 25, 2022
