Scratch coding
I tried scratch early in the year to figure out what it was about, but free exploring just got me to a cat with a word bubble floating around, so looked up a tutorial on creating video games in … Read More
Gremlin track
The original plan for the “living room” was to have a soundtrack of climate anxiety gremlins playing from the closet. The soundtrack was made from asking people attending the house to think of things which cause them climate anxiety and … Read More
Animation Desk
This is a flipaclip alternative, which doesn’t require mac ios 10 or higher. It is roughly equivalent to flipaclip, but it lacks flipaclip’s clean simple interface. There are many menus full of options and the most important functions … Read More
Stop Motion
Stop Motion is an app for, you guessed it, stop motion video. This format is really fun. I had never experimented with stop motion, but i was surprised how easy it was to create a fun little story. There … Read More
The living room
“The Living Room” started with the idea of having a spot in “Wasteland”, the climate anxiety themed haunted house, where you could “turn your back” on the exhibits. Initially this was going to be portrayed by a comfy chair … Read More
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Edcamp
Edcamps are a “bottom up” way of organizing and sharing ideas. In class we did a mini Edcamp, my group discussed our favourite teachers. It was nice to have an open dialogue and we found a lot of commonality … Read More
The Metchosin Apple Festival
Running the juicing station at the Metchosin Apple Festival has turned into a fall ritual for me. A group of kids who started as visitors to the festival years ago, are now buddies with me and it’s nice to see … Read More