LEGO StoryStarter comes to life with myCreate app
"We're ready to do it again!" exclaimed Dotty Corbiere in the video testimony below upon reflecting the recent pilot with her 2nd graders who built their own 'circle stories' out of LEGO Education's StoryStarter product, and then shared these stories with our myCreate iPad app. LEGO StoryStarter with myCreate - ...
The history of stop motion animation
When you hear the name Thomas Alva Edison, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? A light bulb? A telegraph? Probably not stop motion animation. And yet, one of the earliest stop motion animations was produced by Thomas A. Edison. "The first place stop motion shows up is ...
[EN] Awards: Mom’s Choice Awards® Names SAM Animation Among Best In Family-Friendly Products
In June our SAM Animation software received recognition by Mom’s Choice Awards® (MCA), an international awards program that recognizes quality materials designed for children and families The panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, ...
Pickering Shares Advice for the Entrepreneur in Us All
This post was first shared on Forbes.com on 7/2/13. When I started iCreate to Educate, I read a lot of books on female entrepreneurs and started to recognize a consistent message – female entrepreneurs tend to have more self-doubt than our male counterparts. How was I, as a female entrepreneur, ...
myCreate iPad app update and more to come through IDEAS site
School’s almost out for the summer (or some lucky ones may already be out!), but things aren’t slowing down at iCreate. We just released an update on our myCreate iPad app (more details below), and will continue to release monthly updates. SAM is still a strong and steady product, guiding ...
How to make Red Bird, the new mascot for iCreate to Educate
One of the things we're excited about at iCreate is seeing where Red Bird shows up around the world - either just through travels, workshops, or better yet - in animations! To help our favorite creators make their own Red Bird, our team member and social media guru pulled together ...
How Do You Unconference at the Highlander Institute Blended Learning Conference?
A couple of weeks back, I had the sincere pleasure of attending the Highlander Institute Blended Learning Conference. Sure, this truly was an amazing conference experience, run by some top-notch people (cough…Shawn C. Rubin…cough), and filled with like-minded people with an eye and a mind for edTech. It was also ...
Red Bird Wins as iCreate to Educate’s new mascot!
Take a minute to welcome the newest member of the iCreate to Educate team! Red Bird! Over the last week we have witnessed the greatest mascot election campaign that we can ever recall. Our three competitors all ran strong, happy, and informative campaigns, but in the end there could only ...
“Real” books haven’t gone away entirely, but that’s not a bad thing!
In the midst of conference season we were lucky enough to attend our first International Reading Association (IRA) conference in San Antonio, Texas. What an amazing event, I do believe the extravagance flies just under the radar of ISTE, which we try to have some presence at every year. While ...
A clear market need addressed by Whisperphone
We recently discovered the WhisperPhone - a physical tool to guide students through articulated reading – and I think one of the coolest aspects about this product is that teachers had already found a makeshift way of making the product before it even came out. As I’ve recently learned, students ...
FIO – Figure It Out with SAM Animation to create young problem solvers
Guest blog post by Richard Trombetta from the Acton Schools in Acton, MA. The recent edition of Harvard Business Review contained an article by Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer at General Electric simply titled “Figure it Out.” The article focused on some of the key skills people need to have ...
New iCreate video launched to highlight increasing classroom traction
We recently launched a new video to highlight our SAM Animation software and myCreate iPad app in the classroom. Check it out and share! iCreate to Educate bridges common core with 21st century skills ...
iCreate’s Pickering reflects on her career path with Holmes Education Post
iCreate teamed up with AlphaBEST at the AASA conference in LA, CA a couple of weeks ago, and founder Melissa Pickering was interviewed by the Holmes Education Post. Below is a snippet from the interview, and you can read the full interview here. What educational background and/or professional training are ...
iCreate founder Melissa Pickering reflects on whether commerce can change education
At the first annual Learnlaunch conference in Boston, many of the attending entrepreneurs had an opportunity to share their thoughts on whether commerce can change education. I shared my thoughts around that question...re-emphasizing that education doesn't necessarily need to be changed entirely, we simply need to elevate a lot of ...
Candy, myCreate iPad app and Neurons: Animating Nerve Contractions
It's always so awesome to see teachers run with what we share in hands-on workshops and integrate our app into their classroom after just a quick hour intro to the tool. Last November we presented at the iPadSummit, which was just shortly after we released the myCreate iPad app. We ...
How To Spend It: The Financial Times reviews HUE Animation
The Financial Times ran a special edition of their How To Spend It guide on February 16th, 2013, themed around the special arts and bearing the title Smart Arts. We were delighted to discover that HUE Animation Studio was one of the products they featured in the Technopolis section for ...
Review: HUE Animation brings Hollywood to the home
The folks at Hotbox Studios, specialists in animation arts and design, have recently blogged their latest animation finds - and we're proud to have been included in the list! This recent blog post includes a fascinating review of HUE Animation Studio under the title "HUE Animation brings Hollywood to the home". Reviewer Crystal Wilde ...
Fossil Ridge high school biology class deepens understandings with SAM Animation
Our February classroom spotlight - Kevin Murray of Fossil Ridge High in Poudre School District - created a quick overview video to expand on how he and his students use SAM Animation in their biology class. Tasked with creating videos to show DNA replication, students had to become very familiar ...
What do we think creativity means at iCreate?
Last weekend I managed to escape the wrath of the Nemo winter storm in Boston to catch up on some work in lovely Florida. Can't say I'm quite ready to brave the cold and snow as I head back tomorrow, but hopefully I can bottle up some sunshine! For over ...
From the blogosphere: HUE Animation Studio Simplifies Stop-Motion Film-Making on a Budget
HUE Animation Studio Simplifies Stop-Motion Film-Making on a Budget Blog entry originally published on Wired's Geek Mom portal by Sophie Brown. For aspiring film-makers, stop motion animation is possibly the easiest way to try your hand at movie making, thanks to its simplicity and lack of required equipment. Creating stop ...