Renfrewshire ICT Blog

I had a fantastic day on Wednesday when I helped out at Renfrewshire’s latest Digital Video Festival at Lapwing Lodge Outdoor Centre in the Glennifer Braes.
The course was delivered by Oscar Stringer who is a world leader in the teaching of video and animation for the classroom.  Oscar flew up from Bristol and created a flurry of activity in [...]

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We have just had two days of schools digital video festivals @ Lapwing Lodge. Pupils from 12 schools have come together to create, from scratch, there own film. The aim is that they use the skills they have learned back in their own school. The days were led by Oscar Stringer and supported by Ann [...]

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It’s Monday morning and I have checked the final figures for the ICT Showcase on Tuesday evening.  We have 180 teachers booked with another 20 or so guests including parents and some folks from outwith Renfrewshire.  All the final details should be in place.  The evening will be videoed so we can create a DVD [...]

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One of the presentations at TeachMeet06 last Wednesday related to digital video editing on-line.  This is a slant on digital video that I have never thought of.  What do you do if you don’t have a Mac with iMovie running?  The answer may be editing vido on-line.  This wiki has been set up to explore [...]

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Things are moving on apace.  I had the chance to see a demo of the SSDN portal yesterday (although it’s not going to be called SSDN).  The interface is nice a nd clean and has a lot of good customisation features.  The tools which are going to be in the first version look a lot [...]

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