The Next Creative Curve: slingshot or escalator?

Thursday 8th June 2006

John Davitt ( www.newtools.org) gave the key note presentation this morning. I heard John speak at SETT 2004 and he basically gave a watered down version of the same presentation. As always he was very entertaining, although it would have been nice to see a few more examples of his work (I missed the talking sheep and the dog that does the times tables John!)

John also kindly gave each of the conference delegates an electronic copy of his new book ‘New Tools for Learning’. I have had a quick scan through some of the pages and there look like some interesting ideas; I’ll go over the text in more detail when I get a bit more time.

John than introduced two teachers from Northern Ireland who had been involved in some creative animation work with their students. I thought that both animations were excellent. I particularly liked the idea for using figures for students who might not be able to make clay models and the idea of taking photographs of places to build into the set.