Easy Colour Fun for pre-school and early learning students.

Let kids imagine and create a world where objects and images are all the wrong colours! Encourage experimentation and oral language as they talk about their colour changes and what feelings the colour change evokes. 

 Get Kids to create their own basic word learning activities for others to enjoy.

 In the process, not only will they get to know that basic word thoroughly but they will also develop other valuable skills:

o   IT skills as they use UMAJIN Creative software,

o   Graphic design skills as they select and place images and text

o   Product design skills in designing a presentation where the interactivity actually works for the viewer

Here is a completed sample worksheet in action.

Have Fun, Learn and Be Creative with E-activity ideas.

Number 1:Story Retelling - what better way to incorporate the three language modes - visual. oral and written - than in a student re-tell of the story they have just read or listened to.

Using UMAJIN Creative to build a Pick a Path story is a great way to combine Language, ICT and Creativity as well as encouraging communication, problem solving and social and co-operative skills.Group planning and collaboration will flourish as students work together to complete the various directions their story may take.

Make use of the 3D models already available in UMAJIN Creative to create your own 3D movie.  

Every object in UMAJIN has a point of origin that can be shifted . This is valuable for creating animations that need to work from a different point on an object rather than its centre so that an action can work from a pivot point

BLOG Easy draw - Need illustrations but can't draw? Concerned about infringing copyright?

I Can't Draw!! We've all heard it a thousand times. Here is a simple way to create a quick sketch that can give a cool graphical touch to your document or presentation.  UMAJIN Creative provides you with an easy technique for tracing quick outlines of kids, adults, animals or anything else you want to draw. A similar technique can also be used to create basic cartoon type illustrations that can be used to liven up pages and printouts.

Get confused about whether you are allowed to use photos and don't have the money to pay royalty fees anyway?  We all face confusion around copyright infringements. This way you can use photos briefly to give you a model and then use your own hand drawn image safely, with no concerns about copyright.

How creative do kids with special needs get when they are working with computers? 

Do they get enough time to actually make some stuff of their own?

Are they spending most of their time on skill and drill games and programmes that buzz and wink back at them - those spoon- fed noise busters where kids click on anything and everything, just to get any sort of response?

UMAJIN Creative will allow them to create - no matter how simple they start off, they can learn to enjoy the process of making their very own multi-media presentations and documents. They can progress to create their own cards, documents, presentations, books, ebooks  - whatever!

UMAJIN Creative offered free to all registered participants at Sitech Champion Schools Conference held recently in Flaxmere, Hastings. Russell Brebner launches the free offer to a packed hall of teachers.To find out more about the conference and the enthusiastic ICT crowd, read on....