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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In conjunction with the LearnLaunch conference in Boston this past Friday, we announced our new strategic partnership with Kaplan Early Learning Group. Although specific details of the investment remain undisclosed, the aim of this partnership is to better leverage each of our product lines and strengthen our market presence in ...

A teacher from the Buckeye Union School District reached out to us this week to share a fabulous story about a field trip she took her class on, inspired by iCreate's SAM Animation software. For any schools based in the Bay area, the Walt Disney Family Museum could be a ...

We always love hearing from our customers from around the world, and just recently we received an animation created by students at the United Nations International School of Hanoi, Vietnam. Students were inspired by the Impossible Hamster animation, which essentially exemplifies thinking about an important issue in a funny way ...

Today Brandon and I took a visit to a local classroom to observe kids creating as well as bounce ideas off a couple of teachers on our new product plans for 2013. Never am I disappointed in these visits as I always walk away with little morsels of understanding and ...

We love it when schools can better articulate the valuable learning implications around stop-motion animation in the K12 classroom than we can. We recently discovered a fabulous testimonial by a long-time customer in Denver, CO, Polaris at Ebert. We pulled out some key quotes by teachers from the video below, ...

This fall has been a bit crazy for us as we've implemented new activation methods for SAM Animation, in addition to backend re-scaffolding to accomodate new operating systems and hardware that seem to keep popping up! As many of our longtime customers know, SAM grew out of a research project ...