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How to teach Programming and Coding to Pre Readers using “The Foos” Jan 02, 2018

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The Foos Studio brings programming into the game design. With The Foos, students can not only learn about game design, but how to create dynamic content playable by the world. Last year during CSEDWEEK The Foos was introduced to the world. The cute characters helped students understand programming fundamentals, and it was so fun they asked for more. Grant Hosford, CEO of Codespark and Foos creator, has upgraded the play and learning in the Foos by adding the Foos Studio. In the Studio students design their own stories to help the Foos make a movie. In addition to playing the puzzle-solving levels, students can play and design a video game. In the Studio, our favorite characters are controlled by joystick-style buttons. Students can build their own levels and share them, and they love it. The first time I put my afterschool K-4 coding club in The Foos studio something strange happened, the kids all entered flow state. For over 20 minutes, no one had to use the restroom or asked to do anything else. When they did start talking again the first words were “I built a great level, who wants to build my level!” Engaged and empowered? yes, please. The Foos Studio brings programming into the game design. There are NPC's that the student can code to help or hinder the hero. Many of the props and set pieces in the game are also programmable. What is jumpier than a trampoline? obviously, one that has been programmed to jump with a forever loop.

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The Best App For Green Screens on the iPad Jan 01, 2018

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Have you ever wondered what the best app is for doing Chromakey (Green Screen) on the iPad? In this episode of Ask the Tech Coach, we share with you our favorite video app for your classroom.

What is the best app for doing Green Screen on iPads?

The #1 Green Screen app for the iPad in Education, now available for the iPhone too! Green Screen by Do Ink makes it easy to create incredible green screen videos and photos. Classroom-tested by kids and teachers, this app emphasizes ease-of-use and simplicity while still enabling fantastic results. With Green Screen by Do Ink, you can tell a story, explain an idea, and express yourself in truly creative and unique ways. You know what a “green screen” effect is, right? It's used in the movies to make it look like the actors have landed on an alien planet, and it's used on TV to make it look like your local news announcer is standing in front of a weather map. The green screen effect works by combining images from multiple sources into a single video. These images can come from photos or videos in your camera roll, or from the live video camera.

Green Screen By Do Ink

This is a 3 dollar app that can transform learning by allowing students to use greenscreen technology in the classroom. Green Screen has been my goto app for classroom green screen projects for the last two years. This most recent update adds considerable functionality and will require fewer of my students to use other apps to finish their projects. The advanced controls in editing , trimming, and cropping sources promise for a much more controlled experience for my students. What has changed in this update? The first point is huge, now I can green screen on my phone!

Green Screen by Do Ink is now a universal app! Now you can make incredible green screen videos on your iPhone!
We’ve given the user interface a major facelift, with a cleaner, more functional design!
Uses standard iOS user interfaces for importing and exporting images, videos, and project files from any cloud-based storage service.
Support for 1080p HD videos (1920 x 1080 resolution).
Undo/redo support in the main editor.

The copy/paste will change the complexity of work kids can do with this tool

Copy/paste sources on the timeline.
Place camera sources on multiple layers at the same time, and set the start/stop times for camera sources just like any other source.

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