Map map on the wall

The trend toward integration of internet video into the syllabus continues to spread. Following the launch of YouTube and TED platforms, this week another platform has been added. This time, it is an initiative from the people at RSA – the Royal Society for the Arts, which was responsible for the videos of Ken Robinson and others. The new platform is called “Watch Draw Think”.

This platform allows teachers to upload and share ideas for constructing lessons, based on the animated films produced as part of the RSA-Animate series. The system is not particularly sophisticated. In fact, it is rather basic, but what makes it interesting is that it allows teachers to also upload Il est important deeviter de seadonner e ces jeu de casino . their own whiteboard images – I imagine that this refers to illustrations in the RSA’s associative style. After all, the style of illustration that we see in these videos is called whiteboard animation.

It is not always clear from viewing the RSA’s animated films, but part of the working process is to first create a complex, large-scale illustration, which serves as a sort of visual “mind-map.” In this film, by animation artist Andrew Park, you can see that such an illustration takes up a whole wall.

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Recently, Park has begun selling these large-size illustrations as a companion product from the videos. For the modest price of one pound sterling, you can download a large-scale PDF – over a meter in length – containing the same illustrations that we see in the well-known videos, but in their original form, as a large-scale whiteboard drawing. Of course, I couldn’t resist. I downloaded the poster with the illustration for Daniel Pink’s video, and sent it to a printing service to be printed. Once I hang it on the wall, I will upload a photograph to the blog.