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Celebrate the Start of Titanic Festival!

It may be the end of Creativity Month, and our last post, but Belfast’s most famous creation, Titanic, will be commemorated ...

Posted: March 31st, 2012 ˑ 626 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Composing with Graphic Scores

Graphic Scores are a great way of representing music, especially if you ...

Posted: March 30th, 2012 ˑ 1,011 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, Music, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Create a Mediascape App!

You may have heard of mediascapes – these are apps that can contain sounds, images, text and videos that ...

Posted: March 28th, 2012 ˑ 867 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, Games Design, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, Programming, STEM

Celebrate World Theatre Day!

Today is World Theatre Day, and to celebrate we thought we would share a suitably theatrical activity with you. Even ...

Posted: March 27th, 2012 ˑ 930 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, Film, Performing Arts, Photography, Post-Primary, Primary

Game Making Made Easy!

The previous blog, “The Livingstone & Hope Skills Review – Game Development & Visual Effects” highlighted how the Creative Industries ...

Posted: March 25th, 2012 ˑ 926 Comments
Filled under: 3D, Animation, Digital Storytelling, Games Design, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, Programming, STEM

Create Your Own Website

There are lots of free online tools for creating your own website or blog. These could be used to by ...

Posted: March 25th, 2012 ˑ 1,513 Comments
Filled under: New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, Web Design

Create the “Schindler’s List Effect” – Chroma Keying in Final Cut

Ever wondered how they do that colour effect in the 300, Sin City and Schindler’s List films? Today we have ...

Posted: March 24th, 2012 ˑ 1,038 Comments
Filled under: Film, MIA, Post-Primary

Create a Robot with Scratch and Lego

I am sure most of you have heard of Scratch, but have you heard of Lego WeDo? Lego have created ...

Posted: March 23rd, 2012 ˑ 1,159 Comments
Filled under: New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, Programming, STEM

Create a Word Cloud!

A word cloud (or tag cloud) is a visual representation of text where certain words are given importance according to their weight, size, ...

Posted: March 22nd, 2012 ˑ 1,154 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, Digital Storytelling, Literature, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Celebrate World Poetry Day!

Today is World Poetry Day! Poetry is a lot more exciting than you might think… it’s not just for English ...

Posted: March 21st, 2012 ˑ 875 Comments
Filled under: Literature, Performing Arts, Post-Primary, Primary

iPads in Music

On their own iPads are a great resource for music, there are so many apps and fun ways to create ...

Posted: March 20th, 2012 ˑ 923 Comments
Filled under: Music, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Create a Silhouette Animation

I love Lotte Reiniger’s animations which were influenced by Chinese shadow puppetry. When moderating for MIA last year I saw a lovely example ...

Posted: March 19th, 2012 ˑ 881 Comments
Filled under: Animation, Digital Storytelling, MIA, Post-Primary

Create a Mother’s Day Card in Photoshop

This tutorial will take you through creating a card in Photoshop CS5. It is a beginner to intermediate tutorial and ...

Posted: March 18th, 2012 ˑ 1,016 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, Photography, Post-Primary

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Get into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day by making green cupcakes with your class. All you need are some ...

Posted: March 17th, 2012 ˑ 701 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Tiki Toki: Create an Interactive Timeline and bring History to Life

Tiki Toki is a web based tool that allows you to make beautiful interactive timelines that contain video, text and ...

Posted: March 16th, 2012 ˑ 858 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Creativity with Comics

What is Comic Life? Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos… and more! The easy-to-use interface ...

Posted: March 15th, 2012 ˑ 1,713 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, Digital Storytelling, Post-Primary, Primary, STEM

SampleRadar – free sound effects, loops and music.

For all you music buffs and MIA students out there, looking for that sound or audio sample to polish off ...

Posted: March 12th, 2012 ˑ 857 Comments
Filled under: MIA, Music, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Raspberry Pi – Very cheap programming

What’s a Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. ...

Posted: March 12th, 2012 ˑ 1,088 Comments
Filled under: New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, Programming, STEM

Digital Drawing

Below are some links to drawing techniques and the basics of using a graphics tablet. I’ve included the work of Stunt ...

Posted: March 12th, 2012 ˑ 924 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, MIA, Post-Primary

Musical Moods – Music Technology Activities

How about exploring music technology as part of National Science & Engineering Week? In 2011 the British Science Association partnered with ...

Posted: March 10th, 2012 ˑ 888 Comments
Filled under: Music, Post-Primary, Primary

National Science & Engineering Week 2012

Celebrate the launch of the British Science Association’s National Science & Engineering Week (9th – 18th March, 2012) by embracing ...

Posted: March 9th, 2012 ˑ 745 Comments
Filled under: Film, New software/apps, Post-Primary, STEM

A Beginners Guide to 3D with Hash Animation Master

Animation Master is a 3D animation software package for Mac and ...

Posted: March 8th, 2012 ˑ 998 Comments
Filled under: 3D, Animation, Art & Graphics, MIA, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, STEM

Celebrate World Maths Day!

Today is World Maths Day! Celebrate by getting your ...

Posted: March 6th, 2012 ˑ 872 Comments
Filled under: New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary, STEM

Smart Shooting – make a film with your smart phone!

These days our digital cameras and smart phones are so powerful that ...

Posted: March 6th, 2012 ˑ 1,219 Comments
Filled under: Animation, Digital Storytelling, Film, MIA, Post-Primary, Primary

Brain Pickings

Brain Pickings is just about the coolest blog out there for all things creativity. The blog is the brain child ...

Posted: March 5th, 2012 ˑ 901 Comments
Filled under: Art & Graphics, Film, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Post-Primary

The Livingstone & Hope Skills Review – Game Development & Visual Effects

The Game Development and Visual Effects industry needs new talent from the ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2012 ˑ 906 Comments
Filled under: 3D, Animation, Art & Graphics, Games Design, MIA, Post-Primary, Programming, STEM

Stop-motion animation with JellyCam

JellyCam is an easy stop motion animation application that runs on cross-platform Adobe Air (PC, Mac and iPad), it was ...

Posted: March 3rd, 2012 ˑ 684 Comments
Filled under: Animation, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Celebrate National Doodle Day and create a game in My Doodle Game!

March the 2nd is National Doodle Day. You can visit the National Doodle Day website to find out more about Doodle Day ...

Posted: March 2nd, 2012 ˑ 874 Comments
Filled under: Animation, Art & Graphics, Games Design, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Celebrate World Book Day and create an eBook!

As much as I love a paper book, I have become more and more impressed with the interactive eBooks available ...

Posted: March 1st, 2012 ˑ 905 Comments
Filled under: Digital Storytelling, New software/apps, Post-Primary, Primary

Your Month of Creativity is Almost here…

Welcome to Create IT NI, Northern Ireland’s hub for the creative use of ICT, brought to you by the three Creative ...

Posted: February 14th, 2012 ˑ 891 Comments
Filled under: Post-Primary, Primary

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