Cross Curricular

Mindmapping

OpenMind is a tool that allows you to visualise, develop and organise your ideas using the concept of mindmapping.

• Learn how to use mindmapping to learn and revise.
• It's fun, it's visual, it's personal and it's very very useful.
• Map out your ideas in a highly efficient way.

Mindmapping in OpenMind

Making and editing videos and animations

Use our excellent facilities to record a video. Record additional music and dialogue. Edit using Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premiere. Use digital still and video cameras to turn your ideas into animations. Discover how easy the Digital Blue cameras and software are to produce simple movies and animations.

Video Making:

• News Broadcast
• An Advert
• A Music Video
• Video for a Poem

Animation:

• A Fairy Tale
• An Advert
• Song Animation
• Poetry Animation
• Public Information
• A Cartoon

Video editing in Windows Movie Maker


Video editing in Premiere

Fun with Photoshop

Explore some of the tools found in Photoshop to manipulate images and photos. Apply filters to create effects such as film grain, glass, invert, mosaic, neon glow, plastic wrap, stained glass and many others.

Using this picture of the Mona Lisa to the right, by applying Photoshop filters you can create all the images below!