I had a wonderful afternoon with the infants at Warden Hill Primary School in Cheltenham today.
We had a load of fun telling stories and doing wonderful drawings. I took some very shaky photos of some of my favourite Cat and Dog drawings that were done by children in the Reception year. Sorry I couldn’t put them all in or Years one and two’s Whale drawing, but they were all fantastic! You can practice the drawings using these videos Cat Dog and Whale
Thanks for a great time everyone!
How to draw a tape measure? well, it’s a kind of a box with round corners and a ruler sticking out of the end!
Well, I’ve started work on my next app – it’s going to be for the iPad and it’s going to be an interactive story about…
Well, that would be giving it all away before I’ve really got going! All my files are set up and my Apple Developer Certificates are all in place so I can get to work. Sketches are coming along nicely, as is the text.
Text! Yes, I think text is very important. It maybe interactive, but it’s still a book with words in.
I know our new Children’s Laureate, Julia Donaldson, isn’t very keen on computers and eBooks, but I am. The thing is to differentiate what is an eBook, which is something that you read and has words in, from a movie or a game or a TV show – eBooks and ipads and computers are not bad and they are not destroying the ability to read.
To be able to read, you need to do a lot of practice and I don’t really care wether you practice using a book or an ipad – it’s the act of reading that is the important thing.