One of my favorite anecdotal stories around the use of our tool in the classroom was one that involved the solar system, and there were actually two separate movies created from the project.  The first project was implemented on the desktop, where all students were assigned a planet and had ...

There’s a lot of excitement around pushing iPads and other tablets into the K12 system right now and while it seems there are more and more being used in the US-based classrooms, my hunch is that it will take some time before there’s a wide-spread adoption, especially in the 1:1 ...

Based on the success of the first annual Scinemation competition at the Singapore Science Center in November 2011, Singapore has announced the dates and topic of this year’s second annual event! The competition will be held at the Science Center in Singapore again Nov. 6th – 9th, 2012 and the ...

One of our requirements at iCreate as a new hire is to attend an iCreate teacher workshop and also observe a classroom in action with SAM Animation. On Monday of last week Rich, Kristi, and I visited the 4th grade classroom of Michelle Scott at the Field School in Weston, ...

As our team at iCreate is growing, we are becoming less virtual and it’s amazing how much more effective we are as a group when we can be with each other physically, interacting in-person beyond just email and phone. It’s also just a lot more fun. This first hand experience ...

It’s 2012 and in just 6-months iCreate will be 2 years old!  On one hand it seems like not that long ago we sat down to think of a company name, register with the state, come up with a logo, and launch a website.  But in looking at how we’ve ...

With the start of a new year we launched a new website!  For our existing customers, this means that accessing your downloads and license keys have changed. We've emailed this out to all of our customers, but wanted to include it in a blog just in case the email is deleted ...

The Winter 2011/12 issue of Autism Eye has a mention of HUE Animation Studio in the product update section, describing it as a "model present". We've been thrilled to hear how HUE has been helping children with autism discover new ways to express their ideas, and Autism Eye is packed ...

We thought that we'd appropriately create a stop-motion Happy Holiday animation... We would love to see other holiday animations created this season! ...

This past weekend I had the honor of attending -- as a panelist -- the 1st annual EdTech Boston Conference. This event brought together both entrepreneurs and educators to engage in discussions ranging from how to break the barriers of integrating tech in the classroom to what role teachers and ...

There has been plenty of buzz around STEM in the last few years -- "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math" -- with many organizations and policies looking at how we can improve our students' literacy in the STEM areas for an overall more innovative society. But, what about the Arts ? ...

We have a teacher workshop model that has worked time and time again ... and yesterday as I ran an iCreate to Educate workshop at the Meadowbrook School in Weston, MA I realized that what we do in the teacher workshops is exactly how we idealize the classroom -- where ...

Thinking about doing your Christmas shopping next week and don't know where to go? Come to the Spirit of Christmas at Bluewater from 30th November to 4th December. And if you're struggling thinking about what to get your kids we have the perfect gift! Come see us at stand A46 ...

See our entry here and 'Like' us. The more likes we get, the more we are in for a chance to win! ...

Have you ever been in a competition with a room of 400 kids where after you hear, "3-2-1....GO!" there's nothing but an immediate spark of low murmur and cutting paper? And then for the next 4 hours the noise level doesn't increase beyond maybe a bit louder chatter and giggle ...

As we approach Thanksgiving here in the United States we'd like to note we are very thankful to those who have given us fabulous compliments and testimonials for our service and software. And thankfully for these testimonials we can keep going to hopefully provide even better service and software...so to ...

A review from Islington Arts and Media School I was thrilled when the Media department at Islington Arts and Media School asked whether they could use a HUE Animation kit in their Year 6 Open Evening. Find out what the teachers thought about HUE Animation in their review: "There’s something ...

One of our largest customer groups we have at iCreate to Educate using SAM Animation are parents and educators in the UK. Is it something in the water there? Perhaps in their blood? Whatever it is, we see a great amount of energy and excitement in and around animation... in ...

Tag-teaming with the post from last week, while we were in NYC we had the opportunity to observe the fabulous work the teachers at the Deaf School in Brooklyn, NY have been doing with their students. I was blown away by the creativity and thoughtfulness these teachers had put into ...

This past week we were invited down by Puppetry in Practice (PIP) of Brooklyn College to run a hands-on workshop to help the staff integrate stop-motion animation into lessons for English Language Learners (ELLs). It was a fabulous full-day gathering of folks from both LogicWing and PIP. After running through ...