iPad? Any good?
Posted in Social Comment on 17. Jun, 2010
So what do you do with your first few hours with an iPad? My very initial impressions of Apple’s latest device.
Creating Your Custom Glow Theme
Posted in Web Design on 20. May, 2010
In my last post I described how I created a custom theme for Glow. Attached in the zip below are the files I used to do it. If you have admin rights for your own Glow groups (and this includes your own MyGlow page) you can now customise it’s look just as you want. All it takes is a little .CSS knowledge.
Skinning GLOW – Web Parts, CSS and the Dark Arts.
Posted in Web Design on 04. May, 2010
It would be great if you could customise your pages in GLOW, the Scottish National Intranet for Education, in the same way you can style MySpace? In this post I explain how I did just that and it only took me 8 hours!
Unreal Development Kit and The Gun.
Posted in Social Comment on 10. Mar, 2010
I’ve been working with the Unreal Development Kit for a few weeks now and I’m absolutely blown away with the possible uses of it for learning in schools. Not only can it be used to create any kind of computer game but it can also be used to animate, generate cinematic sequences, demonstrate artificial intelligence, show 3D modelling, and even create physics experiments. I would say, without doubt, it is the most powerful Games Design Software available.
Lemmings! Scratch Game
Posted in Game Programming on 06. Feb, 2010
What’s the trick to getting S4 pupils excited? Get them to make a game! Digital Games involve all the programming constructs (and more) required for Standard Grade and Intermediate 2 Computing. My classes seem to think it’s fun but I know it’s work and that they are using programming constructs to solve problems in a way which I can later assess.
Groovy Dancer Tutorial – Parts 12-20
Posted in Digital Art on 03. Feb, 2010
Videos 12 to 20 for Adobe Photoshop CS4. These take the “Groovy Dancer” tutorial close to completion in a set of easy to follow videos with commentary.
More Photoshop Tutorials
Posted in Digital Art on 03. Feb, 2010
I adapted some of the great tutorials at http://photoshoptutorials.ws/ and these are included here. Unfortunately, no videos to go with them yet but we’ll see if I have time to do them later.
Adobe Photoshop: Groovy Dancer Tutorial
Posted in Digital Art on 25. Jan, 2010
I love Photoshop. It’s the single piece of creative software that I use the most. From web design, artwork to games design; it covers all the bases. I’ve been working on converting a complex on-line tutorial into something which S2 pupils can cope with. I wanted to produce resources for this lesson which would allow each learner to proceed at his/her own pace and which would begin to get them thinking about using the software creatively. Here I share some video tutorials and support materials which I’ve developed for S2 pupils.
Building a Quiet Gaming PC
Posted in Hardware on 25. Jan, 2010
A first post and a little story about my adventure in the land of water-cooled, quiet computers built by hand by me!
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