http://ausmaced.org Online hub for Australian educators using Apple Macintosh computers, iPods & iPhones Tue, 20 May 2008 13:46:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent some time in University making videos in 3D - a laborious process in Strata Studio Pro in 1997 where renders would take up to 36 hours for 30 seconds of footage. Such time did the G3 266GHz PowerMacs take to render that my team would take turns ... http://ausmaced.org/2008/03/20/blender-246-new-version-of-freeware-3d-app/ Hi I am having a hard time using a digital projector on an iMac running Tiger. I can make it work on the OSX side but I can not make the projector connect on the Windows side. Any ideas? Thanks! Kris http://ausmaced.org/2008/02/22/boot-camp-and-projector-use/ My friends at Inspiration have asked me about what teachers in Australia are currently doing with Kidspiration and Inspiration. They are interested in publishing a few paragraphs about what people are doing and links to their files if you want to share them. If anyone at MICTi is interested or ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/10/15/inspiration-news/ Thanks to Peter Murray from Apple for hosting the session at Mt Lawley Senior High School in Perth, Western Australia today. It is great to see so many educators interested in the learning that can occur through the communicative and creative potential of Macs. Here are links to the tools I ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/09/06/perthmaced/ Jenny Ashby has organised a MacEdders online conference on Wed Aug 8th at 7:00pm Melbourne time. As this is an online event using Elluminate you can attend from home as long as you have internet connection. Around 50 Macedders have registered. Elluminate - a Live eLearning solution ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/07/29/macedders-online-conference-wed-aug-8th/ Radiologik is a freeware DJ tool that would be of interest to teachers and students alike. I remember when my students produced three CDs of music in GarageBand for the school International Food Day. This would have been a great way to broadcast interviews with the creators of ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/07/09/radiologik-freeware-for-school-radio-stations/ Another for the toolkit is ReelBean. Handy if your students are using their mobile phones to capture video. The .3gp files can be converted to other formats with this and converted back for moblie phones. The ReelBean website details: ReelBean is a movie converter and player offering many features that ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/06/23/reelbean-media-player-convertor/ Thanks to Bronwen for bringing to my attention Skitch - the latest highly intuitive tool from the guys at Plasq. ICTs that have *FUN FOR ALL AGES* written all over them are hard to find. Three years ago when Comic Life appeared on the Mac platform it ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/06/16/skitch-in-the-classroom/ Every year as a part of Universal Children's Day Graeme Johnston of Coomera Primary School organises the fantastic "Dream A Better World" film festival. So get your iLife suites warmed up and get creating! From Graeme via the MacEd list: Just a reminder that the 7th annual 'Dream A ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/05/15/film-festival-open-to-aussie-kids/ Apple has an interesting project going where students can produce a video using clips of the quite famous band Modest Mouse. This may be of interest to students of Media Production. Via the Apple EdCommunity website: Here's what we're looking for. Modest Mouse want a video for their new ... http://ausmaced.org/2007/04/29/apple-video-competition/