Month: <span>May 2015</span>

GIFS go BOOM!

Welcome to the world of the animated GIF! One of the final tasks of our EMP program is to get our participants familiar with making and sharing media in the OPEN.  For us that means posting to the Open Educational Media site here! The assignment as posted in Canvas was …

Stop Motion Chalk Test # 2

Chal Walk test 2.00_00_28_14.Still001In preparation for ETUG 2015 up here at SFU Burnaby, we decided to try out an activity we’d been thinking about. Stop motion chalk drawing.

PROCESS: It took 2 people close to 1 hour and close to 100 individual stills to get just 30 secs of video.

Music was then created using basic loops in Garage Band.

Icon a go-go

In last weeks hands on workshop we asked our participants to do an “icon jam”, essentially a visual brainstorming activity, in which we collaboratively (and quickly) generate a series of icons based, and then share the results afterwords and discuss. This can be a challenge for those that have not …