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Building Skills for the Future

Building Skills for the Future

Creativity is a great buzzword at the moment – everyone wants children to be more creative, but what does that mean? Why is everyone so bothered? What has technology got to do with it?

Primary

  • Parish Church Radio Play-Day
    We spend so much of our time advising teachers about how to get their students engaged that occasionally we commandeer a class for the day and have a crack at teaching them. So, we spent the day with a Year 6 class at Parish Church Primary School in Gainsborough. This time, we had a go at teaching with PCs with the help of Reason expert, Joe Moretti.
  • Jigsaw Productions: Making Radio Plays
    Here's a selection of our favourite podcasts made by Year Six when we visited Parish Church Primary for the day to explore Space!
  • Animation Exploration
    Education Journalist, Jo Eden, runs through her top four animation projects.

Secondary

  • Video with a Twist(er)
    While most of us might retreat indoors at the first rumble of thunder, filmmaker Alister Chapman travels hundreds of miles to capture extreme weather conditions on video – including tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning storms of biblical proportions. As if that wasn’t enough, he’s also started filming his exploits in stereoscopic 3D! When he dropped into our Nottingham office for a chat, we couldn’t pass up the chance to ask him a few questions about his awe-inspiring video work.
  • Magic Mouse Review
    Apple recently announced a bumper batch of brand new products, including the eagerly anticipated Magic Mouse. Keen to try it out for ourselves, we spent a day getting acquainted with the little device.
  • FinePix W1 - FujiFilm's Stereoscopic 3D Camera
    With stereoscopic 3D becoming more familiar in our cinemas, FujiFilm haven’t wasted any time in bringing their new 3D digital camera to the market. We got our hands on the FinePix W1 and put this first-of-a-kind through its paces.

Further Education

  • iTunes U and You
    Learning is no longer restricted to the classroom, lecture theatre or seminar room – we’ve gone mobile, sharing resources across the world. With the popularity of mobile devices like the iPod touch and iPhone, students can learn on the go by downloading study materials and referring to them whenever they want. iTunes U is one of the largest collections of free educational audio and video files on the web, with over 200,000 already available to students, teachers and anyone who wants to learn.
  • Easy Peasy 3D
    In 1983, an elderly man walked into the screen while watching ‘Jaws 3-D’ at the cinema. He claimed he couldn’t tell the difference between the auditorium and the open seas. Fair enough, but surely the 10ft face of Dennis Quaid should have tipped him off?
  • Freelancing: The Future? - An Interview with Julian James
    We talked to roving creative, Julian James, to find out what life is like for a freelancer.

14-19 Diploma

  • Building Skills for the Future
    Creativity is a great buzzword at the moment – everyone wants children to be more creative, but what does that mean? Why is everyone so bothered? What has technology got to do with it?
  • How to Make a 3D Movie
    To prove how simple stereoscopic moviemaking can be, we selected a handful of unsuspecting workers from our Marketing team and set them the challenge of creating their own stereoscopic 3D movie. Here, we give you a step-by-step guide on how they did it.
  • A-Maya-zing 3D
    We visited Rawmarsh City Learning Centre earlier this year and asked Luke and Liam, a couple of its budding 3D animators, what they think of Maya.

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