Tellagami App – creating animated messages..

I attended a tech conference this weekend for educators and one of the presenters showed us how her students used this app to create animations of their English debate topics. Each student had to prepare for both sides of the debate topic, but only had to create their animation one of of the two. It was a very creative way for the for even the most shy high school students to present their debate. Each created their own avatar and recorded their portion of the debate using their own avatars. GREAT IDEA for many curricula!

ICT Across the Curriculum

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Tellagami is an app which allows you to create a short 30 second animated movie called a ‘gami’ (It is free for a limited time from the iTunes store). It is very similar to creating a Voki for those of you who may have used Voki and is very simple. You start by creating and customizing a character and then selecting an appropriate background (you can if you wish take a picture of your classroom or another area and use this as the background). Finally you decide how you want your character to talk. You can type in text (choice of male / female and a few accents) or you can record your voice (limited to 30 secs). Here is a quick video (not surprisingly a ‘gami’ explaining the Tellagami:

IDEAS:

Great potential for creating little video clips of characters – these could be historical characters with extracts of…

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Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

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In 2011, I came across some useful points.  Based on her experiences working as a storyboard artist at PIXAR, Emma Coats created 22 Rules of Storytelling.  There’s some great stuff here for anyone who works creatively – which should be everyone.  I mean if you don’t work creatively, regardless of what you do, what’s the point of doing anything?  Anyway, Dino Ignacio, a UX Director at Electronic Arts, has taken Coat’s compilation to the next level.  Give it a look!

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#SELFIE talk – Learning Photography

Maryland Professional Photographer

How I Learn From Selfies

So let me start off with acknowledging that this post will most likely look incredibly vein. I get it. I also don’t have 10 Facts About Travis / Travis’ Favorite Things / TravsLikes, etc plastered on my website so I’m pretty sure the lack of that content can balance this one out. 😉

There’s lots of talk lately about selfies – which is a short-term word for self portraits. There are many fine art photographers out there who are self portrait photographers, that use themselves as their own subject in their conceptual work. They’ve built a business and make a living off of taking photos of themselves. Most people’s selfies will be taken with a cell-phone and given a splash of instagram love loaded with hashtags to gain more followers. Yeah, I do it and you probably do too!

But who doesn’t love a great…

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Photography 101: Shape, Line, Texture, and Pattern

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Now that we’ve covered a number of fundamentals in photography, from composition and light to focus and POV, let’s now think about elements out in the world that we can use to create more visually interesting images: shapes, lines, textures, and patterns. Today, we’re excited for photographer Evan Zelermyer, the blogger at Urban Mosaic, to share his ideas and illustrate shape, line, texture, and pattern through his urban, architectural, and abstract photography.

Urban Mosaic is the result of many years spent exploring New York City’s five boroughs, searching for interesting sights and finding lesser-known nooks and crannies. New York is a large and varied place, and serves as an endless source of visual inspiration. The goal on my blog is to provide a fresh perspective on familiar urban sights (streets, subways, architecture, etc.), and also to reveal hidden beauty in the marginal, little-noticed details of everyday city life.

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Blogging on the go just got easier and more fun: Introducing WordPress for iOS 7

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Apple just released the new version of their mobile operating system, iOS 7, with a new user interface that streamlines both form and function — it’s colorful and intuitive, but stripped-down and clean. Apple fans have been abuzz since they announced the update a few months ago, and we started working right away to refresh the WordPress mobile app.

Now, the app aligns with the best of WordPress and Apple and is simpler (and more fun!) to use. We’re proud to present the WordPress app for iOS 7!

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The update brings the mobile app design in line with the current WordPress dashboard, and introduces a colorful navigation bar and new icons that feel oh-so-Apple… but in a distinctly WordPress way:

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The app now uses the Open Sans typeface, the open-source font that works so well on WordPress.com. We also updated all the colors, bringing a brighter, fresher feel to…

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Unbound Creativity: Art Blogs on WordPress.com

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From painting and photography to performance art, the art scene on WordPress.com is thriving. Practitioners of every imaginable art form are inspiring visitors with their creativity, using striking themes and neat features like custom galleries to showcase their work. Ready for infinite gallery hopping (no walking shoes necessary)? Here are a few places to start exploring.

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Straddling the line between photography, digital art, and collage, this collection of manipulated photos forces us to look at familiar objects and landscapes with a fresh eye. A swimming polar bear, a layered urban panorama: at once disorienting and fascinating, it’s hard to to resist these images.

Ryu, a minimalist theme with a generous, full-width image post format, is perfect for putting these large images center stage. It even automatically adjusts the background color on image posts to match the palette of the image itself: it’s like having a bespoke framer at your…

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Cloudup Joins the Automattic Family

Awesome!

WordPress.com News

Uploading media and sharing content are at the core of the WordPress publishing experience, and that experience is something we obsess about.

Today we’re delighted to announce we’re acquiring Cloudup, a company that’s as fanatical about these core experiences as we are. Cloudup‘s built some fantastic technology that we can’t wait for you to try out.

What is Cloudup?

At the heart of Cloudup is a ridiculously fast sharing platform that allows you to drag and drop images easily, share to social media, auto-upload screenshots, and instantly share videos with friends before the video is even fully uploaded — syncing effortlessly all the while and working perfectly across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.

Cloudup’s core services capture many things we’ve long wanted to do around improving the WordPress Media Library and we’re super excited to make these improvements a reality.

Collaborative editing

Another exciting feature our new friends…

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