Just a quick tip with an appsmash (credit that word to @gregkulowiec). I recently chanced upon a series of Christmas / Winter / Holiday -inspired sketches I did in 2015 for a series I called #novembrrrr. In fact, I even spliced them together at the end and made a quick film: I ended up losing several when my phone crashed but managed to salvage the bulk of them via my Instagram Lately I’ve been tinkering with a few apps, mixing them together to create new media. My favourite

At breakfast I whipped together this little stopmotion animation for the first day of spring. I used Paper 53 on my iPhone and drew 3 trees, then made 4 separate illustrations of dots with the halo effect (watercolour brush). I simply emailed all to myself and threw them into Apple Keynote, where I could take out the background and layer the trees. Making a stopmotion is really just a matter of duplicating slides and adding a little as you go. For the pulsating effect, I dupl

I love my #visualversevolley project with Erin Olson (@eolsonteacher)…love her creativity and how it makes me think. My goal with this project is to challenge myself to manifest what first comes to mind – to pay heed to the gut reaction I get when I first read her verse, sent to me every Sunday. Sometimes I do a quick sketch, other times something more elaborate, like an animation.  This week I suddenly envisioned something that had to move – a sea! I used Paper 53 to draw on

As a little surprise for Dave Wakeling of The (English) Beat, I created this little animated card using his music (plus The Four Tops) and my original sketches. It just so happens that my notorious hot pink, black, and white are also The Beat’s brand colours, as seen in this iconic album cover: and this… I hand drew all the figures and each letter separately on my iPhone 5 in Paper 53 app, then made the stop-motion in Apple Keynote, exporting to Quicktime and changing speed/

typographic art by Sean Ziebarth (@MrZiebarth) I few blog posts back I took inventory of my various “series” on the Web – and even challenged others to think in “series” when they create. It’s been a few months and it seems I have thought of a few more, so here is the full annotated list. Most of the titles are hyperlinked to the Pinterest board where I’ve tried to organize and collect, but I have undoubtedly missed a few. You can also search my Instagram  (all are posted the

A few weeks ago I took up the challenge from the Learning and Performance Institute in the UK to make a video articulating the greatest changes in learning in the pst 20 years. You can read about my process (an animated poem) in my previous blogpost. I was thrilled and honoured to win the contest, but still had a few things left dangling from my notes. So by the light of the newly erected Christmas tree I hashed out the remaining verses and got to illustrating each concept in

A while back the ever engaging Mr. Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) proposed yet another whimsical blogging challenge. As you recall, we started doing #blimage a while back with a volley of images (mine were sketches). This time, it’s called #twistedpairs and you can read about it and view others ON STEVE’S BLOG I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs lately. I certainly think they are wonderful, and a great testament to how participatory culture has democratized media / publishing

I must say for the past two months since Paper by 53 released its iPhone version, I’ve been having a load of fun. The convenience has made it so that during down time at traffic lights (bad Amy) and standing in line at the bank or whatever I can quickly sketch out a few of my minimalist pieces or remix an old selfie. I’ll be writing an extensive blog post later about all the “series” I’ve been inspired to do, but you can find a lot of them on my Pinterest here: https://www.pi

I asked this question as a Twitter question of the Week to my students around New Years, and decided to pose it on Twitter and see what people would respond with (I also asked my daughter). I did a bunch, too (and in my usual habit attempted to rhyme). Here are the Storified Tweets: https://storify.com/amyburvall/lessandmore …and then I did my little video action with Paper by 53 and Reflector App and iMovie… (be sure to read the contributor list) I was tickled to see my frie

You can read more about the original project in this previous post, but I’ve just made, at the request of Senor Piscitelli, this animated video rendition of the poem, using the apps Paper by 53 and Reflector as well as iMovie. #literacy #animation #poem #gutenbergparenthesis #alejandropiscitelli #amyburvall

I’ve been wanting to try this for, like, MONTHS and finally did it today. It could be more polished (like if I wouldn’t have said both “fancy-dancy” AND “fancy-schmancy” in under 2 minutes), but as my kid says, “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit”. By the way, I believe the term “appsmash” is derived from Mr. Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) of EdTechTeacher. Process is as follows 1. Make lovely sketches in Paper app by Fifty-Three on the iPad (I use my signature col