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Discover the 5 Simple Steps to Design Thinking in Education

Design thinking is a five-step model for creative problem solving that focuses on understanding people’s needs to develop products, services, policies, or strategies. This process finds solutions that balances what humans desire with what is possible and affordable. Design thinkers work in diverse fields including engineering, architecture, graphic design, game development, advertising, animation, video production, […]

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Amazing Blender Trick: How to Make Picture In Picture Videos

Blender Tip #2: Picture In Picture I have been having fun as a beginner learning about Blender‘s video editor. But I’ve also come across some nifty techniques that will be sure to make your videos capture the viewers’ attention. Best of all, they are easy to do! In my first post about Blender, Video Editing

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TechnoRace Programming Project Now Available

It’s here! TechnoRace, TechnoKids’ newest programming project, is now available and kids will love it!  In TechnoRace, they become game developers. Elementary and middle school students make a unique online rescue mission that has players race against time to collect points. Code a Racing Game To start, students use Scratch to pick a player, a

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Free Sound Libraries for School Technology Projects

Do your students want to add their own unique stamp to their technology creations? Likely, the answer is yes and sound is one easy and fun way to add spark and pizzazz to programming, presentation, or animation projects. Free sound libraries are great resources for finding legal, royalty free clips. And almost all free sound

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How to Pick a Color in the Scratch Paint Editor

Do you need Scratch how-to tips? You are in luck! This article provides tricks for mastering the Paint Editor tools. Specifically, how to mix color to fill an object or text. Scratch is an online platform that empowers beginners to learn essential coding skills. By snapping together blocks you can build scripts. These can be used

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Character Rigging Animation with Adobe Animate

Character rigging animation turns a static object into a character that can move its body parts to create realistic actions such as walk, jump, or wave. In Adobe Animate the Asset Warp Tool uses pins to create joints and bones. These allow a character’s limbs to bend. Follow the step-by-step instructions to use character rigging

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