Hydroelectric power in the Alps

This was the our first year camping in the Alps that we had electricity…. Imagine a fan heater in your tent when it is freezing outside!  Why it took us 20 years to discover this luxury I do not know!
M had a good look round on a 9 hour walk around the valley and found [...]

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Glacial Erosion in the Lauterbrunnen Valley

Our holidays often turn into extended fieldtrips as we explore in real life the topics and themes we study at our homeschool.  We are looking at Geology and Landscapes next term, so M made a video describing some of the key features of the fantastic, glacial landscape where we were camping.
Some of the key things [...]

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Squiggle in the garden by M

I used my flip Mino camera and iMovie  to make a movie with one of my hand puppets.

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The Three Bears Get Robbed!

Video made in independent working time.

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Kitchen Chemistry – “Diffusion”

A nice little movie that captures the type of fun, hands on Science that we enjoy at home.
The video documentary, captured using a Flip Mino handheld video camera, provides ideal reinforcement and enrichment and opportunities to develop digital literacy.

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Getting more advanced with Stop Motion!

Now – released to the public after a couple of hours focussed production effort while locked in his Film Studio (his bedroom).
M’s latest production – “Stuck In The Sand Pit” – explores some new video production techniques he has just learned.
“Chromakey” – the ability to replace certain coloured parts of an [...]

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Halloween Poem Performed on YouTube

We just experimented with a tool we found in the Activprimary Software that came with our Promethean Activboard called the Screen Recorder.
This lets you capture everything that you are doing. A used the screen recorder to capture herself reading her poem. Then we simply upload the video the Activprimary software created [...]

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Speed Lego!

Rain kept us indoors today which gave us time to play with our new program ‘iStopMotion’ for the MAC. This neat piece of software can do timelapse and stop motion animations.

It is really professional for the money that we paid for it. (We tried some free ones and they were not very good)
We used both [...]

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Big Trees in Sequoia National Park

Wow – these trees are big!

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Yellowstone National Park (Day 2)

After the excitement and the drama of the blizzards of our first day in the park – the second day was a complete contrast – wonderful sun and clear skies…. Perfection!
We explored new volcanic areas, learned about “extremophiles” (organisms and creatures that can live in extreme condition and breath Sulphur Dioxide!!) and their importance in [...]

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