Originally blogged by by Anita Gebarowicz. Visualisers are incredibly useful pieces of equipment. Did you know that a webcam can provide many of the functions of a visualiser? The video below shows just how easy this is to do. Use a HUE webcam and AMCap to create a visualiser I ...

Are you a student or educator in New York City? yaNY (Young Audiences New York) are running a special Animation Project at The Sony Wonder Technology Lab; it's an afterschool program for students at New York City public high schools and introduces stop-motion animation. They also use our very own ...

We are often asked “how many schools use SAM?” or “Oh, does iCreate just work with people in Massachusetts?” Fortunately, we can say we have thousands of schools on our customer list, with a significant portion in the UK, thanks to one of our long time partners HUE. HUE is ...

If you are an entrepreneur in education, you most likely receive the weekly EdSurge newsletter each Wednesday. And if you are like me and pretty much every edtech entrepreneur I know, you reluctantly read through it well aware that once you’re finished you will just feel bad about yourself. But ...

As a player in the hands-on, creative space, we try to keep our eyes out for other cool, fun, new efforts developing around unleashing student creativity.  We've discovered that there are quite a few popping up, and are psyched about the energy in this area.  We've highlighted a few we've ...

College of Occupational Therapist Specialist Section: Mental Health in partnership with Animated Encounters and Animation Therapy present: Animation on Prescription A one day study event exploring the use of animation in health and social care. Speakers include leading occupational therapists and artists who will present their experiences of using animation ...

With so much technology in the classroom -- whether you specifically requested it or not -- it'd be really nice to be able to use it for more than one purpose. That's why we're super-psyched about announcing our partnership with Ken-a-Vision, an OEM of document cameras and microscopes based in ...

When I was studying engineering I experienced a very significant moment during my junior year of college.  A fellow student was sharing with one of my professors about how frustrated and ‘stupid’ (as he put it) he often felt by having to try over and over again to solve problems ...

Summer is coming to a close (was that fast, or what?) and another school year is about to begin. Inevitably the question, ‘what did you do this summer?’ is about to asked about 127 gazillion times in the coming weeks. Here’s an idea to jump start the year. How about ...

Years ago I was listening to CNBC financial commentator, Jim Cramer, discuss how his children enjoyed going to stores such as Michael’s and AC Moore versus Toys-R-Us.  Not having children at the time, I found this hard to believe.  Now, eight years later, I completely understand. Yesterday, my family and ...

Cartoon Network is currently hosting a competition for viewers to win their very own copy of HUE Animation Studio, and best of all it's very easy to enter! Just head to our special site at Cartoon Network's website and vote for your favourite animated video to be in with a ...

One August 1st we hosted a workshop at Boston Public Schools to give teachers - of all content areas and grade levels - an opportunity to dive in and create. Because we strongly believe in learning by doing, it's only appropriate for us to have teachers learn how to incorporate ...

My daughter recently came home with a very unusual request. “Would it be OK if I built the Eiffel Tower out of marshmallows?” she asked. First, since she is eight I had no idea she knew about the Eiffel Tower. Second, this seemed like such an odd but specific request ...

I remember when I was an incoming college freshman and among all the other challenges we face at that time in our lives I had the daunting task of deciding exactly what type of engineer I wanted to be! I mean, I had already gotten in to engineering school, wasn't ...

Here’s an example of how you can use ordinary everyday items from a classroom to make an animated movie. Amelia (10) came up with the idea of telling the story of sea life using just what she found nearby (with a few extras thrown in by her mum!). A sponge ...

Arizona in the summertime. What could be better than a hike through the desert at 100+ degrees with tired and crabby 6 and 8 year old children? That’s what my wife and I decided to do on a recent vacation. My feet hurt. It’s too hot. This is boring. There’s ...

Over the years, we've heard of some fantastically interesting things that people have been doing with our HUE camera, and today we learned about another. The folks over at this blog have set up Hue as the 'eyes' of a rover they have built. The rover itself is a Raspberry ...

My wife and I are heading off to the Grand Canyon this week with our six and eight year old daughters. I don’t know which is scarier – the possible mule ride into the Canyon or trying to not go nuts on a plane with two kids who have already ...

I had a conversation this week with a person who was complaining about how much kids’ toys and play items cost. She was agonizing over the fact that she would have four kids for the week (her two nieces and her two young children) and that it was going to be “an ...

If you gave kids a card board box, egg cartons, paper towel rolls, construction paper, and some popsicle sticks, what would they make? Probably a static yet elaborate structure with the vague resemblance of a castle. Unfortunately, this probably was carefully constructed on the dining room table so the minute ...