25 Years of Pixar in the school

http://www.pixar.com/

Ratatouille/ Pixar

"It takes three things to make an animated film: world, character and story."

John Lassater

Pixar Animation is celebrating 25 years, 12 feature films, and 20 short films.

In honor of Pixar’s 25th anniversary, YouTube member NkMcDonalds put together a video montage of twelve feature films and 20 short subjects we  know and love! See the list here

If you like Pixar as much as I do, it will definitely make you smile and it might even make you tear up a little tiny bit. Watch the video below 

Author: NkMcdonalds | March 18, 2011

"At Pixar, we realize we are associated, in many people’s experience, with computers. We do use computers in the making of our films. However, at the center of everything we do is the love of story and the wonderful pictures that help tell the story. The computer lets us create worlds and characters that otherwise we could only dream of enjoying. The computer lets us invite you into the dream to dream along with us. The computer is where we finish our stories."


John Lassater, 

Pixar Animation makes the best films, there's no doubt. Each film is unique and special.

Andrew Stanton

http://pixarplanet.com/

Congratulations Pixar! I will be back soon on Pixar and Oscar winner animator Andrew Stanton... 


Education:


Movies can offer teachers and students a nice motivating push to have a different lesson! Let's the students profite the increadible adventure of 3D for teaching and learning the Narrative text.

Displaying movies in a face-to-face teaching is an important digital resource for the students to learn about the Narrative text in the classroom.  
Students will create better stories, including good plots, characters and narrative points of view, the crucial elements of the Narrative text.

A Narrative lets us know something. It tells us what happened. It tells us a story. Our students love to hear, tell and write stories or narratives.  

"Movies present language in a way that is often more natural than that found in course-books, the fantastic visual context aids understanding and boosts listening, and students just simply love them."

Steve Louw

G-Souto

14.04.2011

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Credits: video NkMcdonalds (YouTube member)

References:

Pixar

http://www.pixar.com

YouTube/NkMcdonalds

http://www.youtube.com/user/NkMcdonalds

OECD 50th Anniversary Video Competion

http://www.oecd.org

As part of OECD’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, a video competition for young people has been launched.

To celebrate the OECD's 50th Anniversary, young people worldwide are invited to create a short video describing their vision of Progress.

If you are, or you know someone, aged between 18 and 25 and like making short videos, tell OECD what you think “Progress is...”. 

Read all the the Competion terms & conditions here

About the video:

• No longer than three minutes;
• Made in English or French (OECD’s two official languages);
• Read more...

The competion is open since December 1st 2010 and closing date for submissions is midnight (Paris, France time) on 1 March 2011.

You can fill out the Registration form here

Upload your video on YouTube and register online before MIDNIGHT (Paris time) on 1 March 2011. Any videos and/or registration forms received after this time will not be considered.

A Special Jury (to be announced in February) will compile a shortlist of 20 videos, judged on a basis of creativity, substance, production value and overall impact. 

The 20 shortlisted videos will be announced and showcased on the OECD website and the OECD YouTube site from 21 March 2011.

The public will be invited to vote from 22 March to 14 April, 2011, via YouTube, the top three videos from the shortlist.

The winners will be announced on Friday 15 April 2001

Three lucky winners will be selected and invited to Paris in May, all-expenses-paid, for a special screening of the videos at the OECD Forum.

The video author (or nominated representative, if a team creation) of each winning video will be invited to Paris to attend the OECD 50th Anniversary Forum in May 2011. 

Travel costs to and from Paris, hotel accommodation and a living allowance will be provided for the duration of the Forum.

For more information, contact video@oecd.org.

You can join OECD on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

Education:

High schools of Arts, students, free-lance movie makers, creative people.

Don't miss this opportunity to share your creativity and your ideas about progress.

Concours vidéo pour le Cinquantenaire de l’OCDE (Français). À lire ici

G-Souto

28.01.2011

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Credits: OECD 

Why are we using Facebook, Twitter or Youtube?

www.twistimage.com

It is important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have sixth largest population in the world.

www.twistimage.com/blog

Mitch Joel, the author of the book “Six Degrees of Separation” is one of the finest thinker of our time. He unravels the fascinating world of new media.

Strategic focus, awesome write-up and presentation yet simple, and easy to understand. 

Now, watch the video (September 2009) and ask yourself: Why are you on Twitter? Why are you making a video in Youtube? Why are you on Facebook?

This is what Joel Mitch is famous for. Excellent thought! So what do you think? Agree with Joel’s “Why”? 

G-Souto

30.07.10

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