Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
26 December 2010
We are looking forward to some exciting projects in 2011 we get started with some training sessions in schools. Then we are at the BETT show in London for a week! While members of the team are sharing their knowledge and skills we also start work on an online learning tool and an animation project in a local primary school.
Snowflake pic from Flickr
Online Literacy Tool
11 November 2010
Trilby are currently working on a Creative Partnership funded project with the Earls High School to develop an online literacy tool which aims to improve writing skills aimed at Years 5/6 and used by Year 7/8 for peer teaching.
The first two sessions included the students learning about basic filming and editing techniques. They were able to put into action what they had learned by filming dance performances at their school and then editing those in iMovie.
Trilby Support for RM at the Scottish Learning Festival
28 September 2010
Ben headed up north last week to the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow to help out on the RM stand. Working with pupils from local primary schools, along with fellow Apple Distinguished Educator Neil Emery, several pieces of work were created to showcase Apple technologies.
PhotoBooth was used with some custom background effects to turn the students in to robots. iMovie was used to edit the work together and provide green screen effects and Garageband was the tool of choice for adding background sounds and effecting the young people's voices.
The finished work will be uploaded to the Scottish schools VLE system, Glow and the students left at the end of the workshops with their work on memory sticks.
English Heritage are using COOL Tools
16 September 2010
as part of their community history and heritage projects in Brierley Hill. During the Pony Trail at Brierley Hill on the 29th/30th August English Heritage used COOL Tools for the first time to find out what people think about Brierley Hill as a place to live and visit.
COOL Tools in Victoria Square
27 August 2010
Birmingham's Aston Pride Project used their COOL Tools domes and Soap Box Kiosks from Trilby Multimedia as part of their Digital City Project to capture what people think about Birmingham in 2010.
Aston Pride has purchased the domes and kiosks as part of their ongoing commitment to capturing consultation in a more creative and exciting way.