Create – Animate!

May 7, 2008

AFFThe 2008 Scitech Animation Film Festival is now open for entries. Students can win great prizes for their school and are invited to submit a two minute animation in either Flash, 3D or Stop Motion and enter Scitech’s annual Animation Film Festival before Friday, 1 August. To take part schools must register their interest by June 1
2007 Winning entries can be viewed at the 2007 Animation Film Festival website

A classroom activity assessment rubric is available for download along with the entry form.
The festival is open to students from Years 4-12. The most impressive creations will be viewed at Horizon – The Planetarium, one of the biggest screens in Australasia!


The ABC’s RoLLeRMâCHé website offers young people the opportunity to be creative and to learn about basic animation techniques. The site also affords the opportunity to be published on the web. Users must Register as a Roller Coaster member to be published.Other useful Animation sites and tools to consider:
Stop motion Pro: http://www.stopmotionpro.com/ – Free Trial Version available and basic tutorial.
Pencil: http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=HomePencil – Pencil is an animation/drawing software. Pencil is free and open source.
Morphx: http://www.norrkross.com/software/morphx/morphx.php -Norrkross MorphX can be used for calculating images or movies where one image transforms into another.
Array: http://www.mediumk.com/array/macosx/index.html -Array is an easy to use animation program.
FramebyFrame: http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/BrendWorld/Software.html – FrameByFrame lets you create stop-motion animation videos using any webcam/video camera connected to a Mac.
Blender: http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/ -Blender is more appropriate for high-school students. It’s a free open source 3D content creation suite that can export movies.And so that students don’t forget that animation is all about the ancient art of story-telling -
CeltX: http://www.celtx.com/ – Combines full-feature scriptwriting with pre-production support and also enables online collaboration.I’m sure students and teachers can have a lot of fun with these options!

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Money for value…

April 11, 2008
vaq.jpg Think left and
think right and
think low and
think high.
Oh, the thinks you can
think up
if only you try!
Dr Seuss

The Value Adding Quest is a competition run by WA Technology and Enterprise Learning Area professional associations. It is open to all WA students. There are prizes for students and schools and special prizes for first time teachers to encourage them to enter their students’ work. All students involved with the Quest receive a Certificate of Participation.

The Quest provides the opportunity for students to create technologies that solve problems and address real issues in a sustainable way . It is an innovative, authentic, relevant and practical way to stimulate students and for teachers to learn more about the Technology and Enterprise Learning Area.

For more information visit the VAQ website or download the VAQ 2008 brochure.

CLOSING DATE THURSDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2008

Design and Technology teachers will find links to useful curriculum related resources on the CMIS Technology and Enterprise page.

DET teachers can access K – 10 Syllabus Resources for the Technology and Enterprise Learning Area via the Portal Logon

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