The Clip Club

Shall we plan a Year 6 EE demo?

For various reasons there are only 5 of us in the 26 Nov session – instead of the normal 8 or 9, which is sad in some ways but kind of nice in other ways. We watched and listened to some of the stuff we’ve been producing in previous sessions (ipad work here and the short that Michelle made for a conference here) and decided it would be a good idea to take up something that Leonardo suggested at the end of an interview about Clip Club.

He’d really like to share his knowledge and doesn’t think it’s fair that only ‘the clubbers’ get to do this kind of work. So we think of how we might demonstrate how the “Explain Everything” (EE) app works. Gman immediately takes up the reins, followed by Clara and Wizard23. With the iPad linked to the whiteboard, they imagine a handwritten Intro that animates: “Hello Year 6” with a narration (and voice acting) over the top. We carry on like this and create 3 possible slides to show to the rest of the Year. They’re all doing autobiographies at the moment so it might be useful for that project.

I am including two EE examples below that inspired us a few weeks ago to have our first go at drawing, animating and narrating, panning and zooming as we go … it’s not our work but something found on Youtube. We think it’s simple and great!

Here’s another one from Diane Horvath’s channel – it seems she’s doing some great ‘mobile learning’ with young children in Medfield, Massachusetts, USA. Liking the high angle and the cinematic feel to the drawing below:

The work done in this session is very much like story-boarding and shooting a film simultaneously (at the same time), because we end up having to redo a few slides a number times to get it right, like doing re-takes of the same scene… and, it gets better every time because we can fix the mistakes very easily. It’s also very funny as everyone has to keep quiet while recording is going on… and some of us – adults included – find this quite difficult!