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Longton High City Learning Centres have been running some animation sessions with our local feeder schools. On the 7th, and the 14th of March, Alexandra Junior school came in with 2 different classes for a days animation. The teachers had been briefed before the session and they had instructed the children in how to create simple storyboards. ...
Media Technologists Mark & Phil from both City Learning Centres in Stoke on Trent have been working on the "Playing for Success project" with Stoke City FC. Groups of children would travel to the classroom at the Britannia staduim where Phil & Mark delivered the Stoke-a-Nory and Money Money Projects. Stoke-a-nory required the children to work in ...
Over the first two weeks of the summer break the City Learning Centres have been supporting several summer schools. Blurton High School with their theme of business enterprise had up to 60 pupils pupils took part in a football player/management game, during which they could buy and sell players for their team. Over several days the pupils ...
Sandon High School and Edensor Technology College have been running their summer school in three different venues this year. Gladstone Pottery Museum was the base for a host of interactive educational activities including food technology, business studies, french, history, maths and literacy. Edensor Technology College enabled pupils to create and experience music technology whilst Longton CLC gave ...
The City Learning Centre ran a pilot in Macromedia Flash MX today. Students from Longton High School yr9 were the first to test the course. Organised by Jenny Hulme and taught by Phil Gregory, the students learnt how to create a simple animation of a bouncing ball being hit with a bat. Once the students had gotten ...
St Mary's Catholic School came into the CLC to learn the techniques of Stop-Motion Animation. Although young, these animators were amongst some of the best we have seen for a while in the CLC. The day was broken into two parts. Jenny Hulme delivered the iStopMotion tutorial in the morning with Phil Gregory delivering the iMovie ...
Geoff Dellow came into the CLC to demonstrate to teachers how easy it is to create simple animations using Macromedia Flash. The Course showed teachers, and several pupils how to create and "tween" shapes. A final Flash Movie was created which showcased the simple animations created by both teachers and pupils.
February 22nd saw teachers from 7 local schools visit the centre to learn basic Stop Motion Animation skils. Each group of teachers produced a set of models using a range of materials and sets, which were then filmed and edited using iStopMotion and iMovie software on our Macintosh ibook laptops Jenny Hulme and Phil Gregory delivered ...
