Adding a new figure in Stykz

For today’s task I would like you to create a new dog figure in Stykz [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xgYkBurgrJo” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] You should then create a short animation using the dog before exporting it to a GIF [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YSCj-gCZW_8″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Once its all finished you can you post it on your e-Profile and email me a copy.

Task 5 – Wages (Internet Research)

Today we discussed how much money people get paid. Sometimes its not as much as we might expect. Take for example a football stadium, the players might be on thousands of pounds per week. The person who sells the food might be on minimum wages and the ball boys might be apprentices. What is the minimum wage? The National Minimum Wage is the minimum pay per hour almost all workers are entitled

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Introduction to Animation

So we started Animation properly today and everyone took to it easily. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/-E-0PNDcfh4″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I have put together a YouTube play list for the course and I have started to populate it with video tutorials. Here is what we covered today.

Task 3 – Needs and Wants

There are lots of things we thing we “need” and even more that we “want”.  How can we tell what is a need and what is a want? Well if we were to get right down to it we need food, shelter, water and air. Air is free but the rest we have to pay for. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/X6ZSPplnovg” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Task 2 – Money Personality

I missed this post a couple of weeks back. We started the lesson looking at our views of money before undertaking a survey and having a look at what that means about us. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dGdb4QWgjT0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Lesson 4 – Income Generation

Today we looked at how we can generate income, we started with writing ideas on the board before moving on to questions and computer work. We then spent some time at the end of the period going over the work and looking at other ways to generate income.

Animation Ideas

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An update to our e-portfolios

Today we finished uploading the powerpoint assessments and the wrote an entry for our e-portfolios. With the 10 minutes or so left at the end of the class I showed you software we will use in our next topic. It is called Stykz and it is a stick figure animator. We will be using this for a few weeks but I thought I might let you see what you can do.

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Powerpoint Assessment Task

So today we made use of the new Glow learn area and started to create the assessment presentation. I have set this as work due for two weeks, judging by how quickly some of you are getting to grips with the task, we might wrap it up earlier.