Author: Merry

Jabuka

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So, what’s all the buzz about? A rotating letter word game with a coffee theme, JABUKA ($19.95 for 2-4 players ages 8+). Any word game requires you to use your bean, but the way to win JABUKA is to use the most beans in a creative way. The “TWIST” to JABUKA is that the coffee bean-shaped pieces can be twisted and turned to form different letters, magically transforming J’s into R’s; M’s into E’s and many more! Learn to speak Jabuka by using these alphabet chameleons to form new words or to hijack and transform existing words made by another player or team.

Available online at: https://www.amazon.com/Jabuka-Word-Game-Spontaneous-Fast-Paced/dp/B07TZJTLYX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Jabuka&qid=1601487787&sr=8-1

HUE Animation Studio

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HUE Animation Studio is a starter kit for budding movie makers aged 7-13. It includes HUE Animation, easy-to-use stop-motion software, HUE HD USB camera (with built-in microphone) and a 60 page book full of tips and ideas.

This fantastic value, highly creative and educational toy will bring hours of pleasure to young film directors who with the click of a button can animate anything from a favourite toy, LEGO figures, clay creations or 2D drawings.

HUE Animation Studio has been designed by teachers for children aged 7-13. The kit includes everything that you need to create your own stop motion animation and time-lapse videos:

– The HUE HD camera, a flexible plug and play USB camera with built-in microphone.
– A single user license of the fully-featured HUE Animation software for Windows and macOS with its intuitive and easy to use customer interface.
– The HUE Book of Animation with step-by-step instructions for creating 20 hilarious stop motion videos and ideas for even more.
– Online resources such as sound effects and backdrops.

Making movies is a creative, educational and fun-filled activity that everyone can participate in, whether it is for use at home or for school projects. Simply plug the camera into your laptop, install the software and you’re ready to go.

Simple icons and navigation make it easy for kids to film scenes and edit videos. They can slow down or speed up delivery of frames, duplicate frames to lengthen scenes and add music or audio recordings to their video.

By having children construct, explain and create videos, they become authors and producers of their own knowledge and they develop communication, organisational and team-work skills through play.

Stop motion animation is a gender-neutral activity equally enjoyed by both boys and girls and it’s great for spending time together and developing different skills without even realising it.

Even the youngest of animators can have fun making and moving their characters. Older children will enjoy imagining the storyline, writing the script and recording the voice-overs, whilst the ‘professionals’ can excel at deciding on camera angles, positioning the characters and creating or importing sound effects. Any actors in the group will love getting into character for the voiceovers and everyone can enjoy watching the finished film again and again.

Kids catch on very quickly and can become competent animators in no time at all. They’ll soon be producing their own films and moving onto the more advanced features of the software such as using chroma key, adding credits and changing backgrounds. As with any skill, practice makes perfect and each new production will improve on the last.

Customer testimonials: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/

Video of Amanda Gummer from Fundamentally Children introducing HUE Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN828c5lqaQ

Video from InspirEd workshops on using HUE Animation in a classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeqGJneHSng

For more information please visit the product page: https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation-studio/

HUE – Colorful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDProducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

HUE Animation Studio

Posted on by Merry

HUE Animation Studio is a movie-making starter kit which includes stop motion software, a HUE HD USB camera and a 60-page book full of colourful and creative ideas. Designed for children aged 7-13, it allows kids to learn through creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking.

What’s in the box:

– HUE Animation, a user friendly stop motion animation software originally designed by professors at Tufts University for children aged 7-13. https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation/

– The HUE HD camera, a USB plug and play camera with a built-in microphone and a flexible neck. https://huehd.com/products/hue-hd-camera

– The HUE Book of Animation containing 60 colour pages of ideas, hints and tips for creating movies.The book comes with a set of 17 completed example videos: https://huehd.com/creations/huebookofanimation/

What are the benefits:

With the click of a button, children can start animating anything from a favourite toy, Lego figures, clay creations to a 2D drawing. They can then edit their creation, add sound, text, and special effects where they like, or they can delete or fix any errors. Once they are satisfied with their creation, they can save and share it with teachers, family and friends.

Fostering the 21st century skills of creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking, HUE Animation elicits a high engagement from children as they plan, execute, and present their creations. The uses for HUE Animation are endless. Have children recreate a scene from a book, illustrate fractions, conduct a science experiment using the time-lapse feature to watch a chick hatch, etc.

Whatever the subject, children will be developing both creative and digital literacy and parents can assess their learning growth as they demonstrate what they know.

HUE Animation also meets the needs of kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learners, and has found great success with children with special needs. It is popular in numerous maker space areas in schools and libraries, and as a tool to teach STEAM subjects.

The software includes an upload button to Creatubbles, a new safe and secure sharing site for parents, teachers and students. www.huehd.com/creatubbles

What are the main features:

The flexible neck of the camera eliminates the need for a tripod and makes animating in bird’s eye view (or any angle for that matter) quick and easy to set up.

The manual focussing lens lets you ‘pull focus’ and add drama to your scene.

The built-in microphone and software lets you record your own voice-overs, music and foley directly into your animation project.

The HUE book of Animation introduces budding animators a complete overview of essential animation techniques including pixilation, 2D cut out, claymation, rotoscoping, object and toy animation.

The box is an animation stage and the kit includes downloadable backgrounds, cut out props, Phenakistoscope, storyboard and sound effects.

It’s an educational toy that combines manual and digital and develops various skills.

The Time Lapse feature allows you to capture images over long periods of time to reveal incremental processes such as plants growing or the rotation of the Earth against a starlit sky.

Customer testimonials: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/

Video of Amanda Gummer from Fundamentally Children introducing HUE Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN828c5lqaQ

Video from InspirEd workshops on using HUE Animation in a classroom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeqGJneHSng

For more information please visit the product page: https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation-studio/

HUE – Colorful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning

www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDProducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

HUE Animation Studio

Posted on by Merry

HUE Animation Studio is a movie-making starter kit which includes stop motion software, a HUE HD USB camera and a 60-page book full of colourful and creative ideas. Designed for children aged 7-13, it allows kids to learn through creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking.

What’s in the box:

– HUE Animation, a user friendly stop motion animation software originally designed by professors at Tufts University for children aged 7-13. https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation/

– The HUE HD camera, a USB plug and play camera with a built-in microphone and a flexible neck. https://huehd.com/products/hue-hd-camera

– The HUE Book of Animation containing 60 colour pages of ideas, hints and tips for creating movies.The book comes with a set of 17 completed example videos: https://huehd.com/creations/huebookofanimation/

What are the benefits:

With the click of a button, children can start animating anything from a favourite toy, Lego figures, clay creations to a 2D drawing. They can then edit their creation, add sound, text, and special effects where they like, or they can delete or fix any errors. Once they are satisfied with their creation, they can save and share it with teachers, family and friends.

Fostering the 21st century skills of creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking, HUE Animation elicits a high engagement from children as they plan, execute, and present their creations. The uses for HUE Animation are endless. Have children recreate a scene from a book, illustrate fractions, conduct a science experiment using the time-lapse feature to watch a chick hatch, etc.

Whatever the subject, children will be developing both creative and digital literacy and parents can assess their learning growth as they demonstrate what they know.

HUE Animation also meets the needs of kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learners, and has found great success with children with special needs. It is popular in numerous maker space areas in schools and libraries, and as a tool to teach STEAM subjects.

The software includes an upload button to Creatubbles, a new safe and secure sharing site for parents, teachers and students. www.huehd.com/creatubbles

What are the main features:

The flexible neck of the camera eliminates the need for a tripod and makes animating in bird’s eye view (or any angle for that matter) quick and easy to set up.

The manual focussing lens lets you ‘pull focus’ and add drama to your scene.

The built-in microphone and software lets you record your own voice-overs, music and foley directly into your animation project.

The HUE book of Animation introduces budding animators a complete overview of essential animation techniques including pixilation, 2D cut out, claymation, rotoscoping, object and toy animation.

The box is an animation stage and the kit includes downloadable backgrounds, cut out props, Phenakistoscope, storyboard and sound effects.

It’s an educational toy that combines manual and digital and develops various skills.

The Time Lapse feature allows you to capture images over long periods of time to reveal incremental processes such as plants growing or the rotation of the Earth against a starlit sky.

Customer testimonials: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/

Video of Amanda Gummer from Fundamentally Children introducing HUE Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN828c5lqaQ

Video from InspirEd workshops on using HUE Animation in a classroom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeqGJneHSng

For more information please visit the product page: https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation-studio/

HUE – Colorful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning

www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDProducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

HUE Animation Studio

Posted on by Merry

HUE Animation Studio has been designed by teachers for children aged 7-13. The kit includes everything that you need to create your own stop motion animation and time-lapse videos:
• The HUE HD camera, a flexible plug and play USB camera with built-in microphone.
• A single user license of the fully-featured HUE Animation software for Windows and macOS with its intuitive and easy-to-use customer interface.
• The HUE Book of Animation with step-by-step instructions for creating 20 hilarious stop motion videos and ideas for even more.
• Online resources such as sound effects and backdrops.

Making movies is a creative, educational and fun-filled activity that everyone can participate in, whether it is for use at home or for school projects. Simply plug the camera into your laptop, install the software and you’re ready to go.
Simple icons and navigation make it easy for students to film scenes and edit videos. They can slow down or speed up delivery of frames, duplicate frames to lengthen scenes and add music or audio recordings to their video.
By having children construct, explain and create videos, they become authors and producers of their own knowledge, rather than passive recipients of lessons.

Stop motion animation is a gender-neutral activity equally enjoyed by both boys and girls and it’s great for spending time together and developing different skills without even realising it.
Even the youngest of animators can have fun making and moving their characters. Older children will enjoy imagining the storyline, writing the script and recording the voice-overs, whilst the ‘professionals’ can excel at deciding on camera angles, positioning the characters and creating or importing sound effects. Any actors in the group will love getting into character for the voiceovers and everyone can enjoy watching the finished film again and again.

Kids catch on very quickly and can become competent animators in no time at all. They’ll soon be producing their own films and moving onto the more advanced features of the software such as using chroma key, adding credits and changing backgrounds. As with any skill, practice makes perfect and each new production will improve on the last.

A key topic in education now is the value of play in the learning process. Whilst planning, executing, and presenting their animations, children are gaining the 21st century skills of creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking without even knowing it. Stop motion animation allows kids to engage in digital storytelling and demonstrate their understanding of educational concepts and common core content. Using anything from toys to household items, children can animate any subject in the curriculum.
SEN teachers have also found that stop motion animation is a great way to encourage creativity and independence.

Stop motion animation is now being used right across the curriculum in STEAM subjects whether it is Maths, Science or Art. Children can illustrate their understanding of a particular topic by creating a movie or animated presentation. The software has a time-lapse feature which is perfect for monitoring science experiments or creating a time-lapse video of someone making a drawing.
HUE Animation Studio is a valuable homeschooling kit as stop motion animation offers a winning combination of technology and creativity that we know children love. Completed videos can be saved to personal albums and/or shared with educators, peers and family via YouTube or Creatubbles, a safe global community for young artists and animators.

Customer Testimonials
We have collected many testimonials from teachers who use their HUE camera every day. Here are just a selection:
“Fantastic animation kit! I use these for group animation workshops for disabled children and young people and they are so simple to use, the children really engage with them. We have made some really impressive work with these and the accompanying hints and tips book is great for learning techniques. The flip-down set included on the box is really useful too! Very highly recommended for group activities or for a gift.”
– Liz Whitaker, Follow Your Dreams

“I have used HUE Animation software and cameras with my class of students who have autism and severe learning difficulties. They were able to create their own short movies with minimal support – the activity also encouraged them to work cooperatively, something that they can find very challenging. They were all very pleased with the results which we put onto our MLE to share with families.”
– Sally Paveley (The Bridge School)

More testimonials available: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/
Video of Amanda Gummer from Fundamentally Children introducing HUE Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN828c5lqaQ
Video from InspirEd workshops on using HUE Animation in a classroom:

For more information please visit the product page: https://huehd.com/products/hue-animation-studio
HUE – Colorful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDProducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

HUE HD Pro document camera

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The HUE HD Pro is a USB document camera for Windows, macOS and Chromebooks. HUE prides itself on offering colorful and affordable technology and this easy-to-use camera delivers an HD quality image for only $79.95.

Teachers worldwide love it for its simplicity and straightforward classroom use and it is gaining in popularity for office and home use. The camera’s solid and robust design gives it longevity whilst being lightweight and portable. It is a plug and play device that can be connected to a computer and used immediately with any application that recognises a USB camera.

The HUE HD Pro comes with its own camera management software called HUE Intuition which can be installed on Windows and macOS and enables customers to record sound and video, take snapshots, flip, rotate and annotate images or to show camera feed on full screen. The camera can also be used with free software such as Quicktime on macOS or the Camera app for Chromebook and Windows 10 users as well as with online platforms such as Bitpaper or Loom.

The camera has a myriad of uses thanks to its flexible neck, manual focus and built-in LED lights and microphone. We have customers in different industries using their HUE HD Pro camera on a daily basis for work from home, online tutoring, teletherapy, homeschooling, or in a classroom gaining increased engagement from students.

1. Sharing work and live-streaming
The flexibility of the neck of the camera and wide-angle lens makes the HUE HD Pro much easier to use than a built-in camera for sharing documents, reading books or working with physical objects. One of the most common uses is to show live documents or an example of work for discussion with the entire group to share input and ideas.

2. Recording videos and presentations
The HUE HD Pro has a built-in microphone and LED lights too. The camera is perfect for recording videos, whether these are tutorials or live demonstrations, they can be recorded for viewing at a later time, shared and used for revision.

3. Video conferencing
HUE cameras have been used successfully with popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet and free downloadable guides on how to use them with HUE are available on our website. The HUE HD Pro camera is available in 4 colours (blue, red, green and black). The small and solid base will not take up space on the desk and the camera can also be used without the base and cable keeping your desk space clutter free.

4. Magnifying text and objects
The camera’s adjustable neck and manual focus can be used as a basic microscope to enlarge by 10x small objects or text, a useful feature for children with visual impairment or for scientific purposes.

Presentation video of the HUE HD Pro camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3GNfH3GwM&feature=emb_title

Video from Kildwick school describing the uses of the HUE HD Pro camera in a classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWHkYGI_qQ&t=1s

Customer testimonials available at: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/

Case studies can be found at: https://huehd.com/tag/guest-post/

For more information please visit the product page: huehd.com/pro.

The HUE HD Pro manual can be downloaded from here: https://files.huehd.com/downloads/HUEProManual.pdf

HUE – Colourful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning
www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDproducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

HUE HD Pro document camera

Posted on by Merry

The HUE HD Pro is a USB document camera for Windows, macOS and Chromebooks. HUE prides itself on offering colorful and affordable technology and this easy-to-use camera delivers an HD quality image for only $79.95.

Teachers worldwide love it for its simplicity and straightforward classroom use and it is gaining in popularity for office and home use. The camera’s solid and robust design gives it longevity whilst being lightweight and portable. It is a plug and play device that can be connected to a computer and used immediately with any application that recognises a USB camera.

The HUE HD Pro comes with its own camera management software called HUE Intuition which can be installed on Windows and macOS and enables customers to record sound and video, take snapshots, flip, rotate and annotate images or to show camera feed on full screen. The camera can also be used with free software such as Quicktime on macOS or the Camera app for Chromebook and Windows 10 users as well as with online platforms such as Bitpaper or Loom.

The camera has a myriad of uses thanks to its flexible neck, manual focus and built-in LED lights and microphone. We have customers in different industries using their HUE HD Pro camera on a daily basis for work from home, online tutoring, teletherapy, homeschooling, or in a classroom gaining increased engagement from students.

1. Sharing work and live-streaming
The flexibility of the neck of the camera and wide-angle lens makes the HUE HD Pro much easier to use than a built-in camera for sharing documents, reading books or working with physical objects. One of the most common uses is to show live documents or an example of work for discussion with the entire group to share input and ideas.

2. Recording videos and presentations
The HUE HD Pro has a built-in microphone and LED lights too. The camera is perfect for recording videos, whether these are tutorials or live demonstrations, they can be recorded for viewing at a later time, shared and used for revision.

3. Video conferencing
HUE cameras have been used successfully with popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet and free downloadable guides on how to use them with HUE are available on our website. The HUE HD Pro camera is available in 4 colours (blue, red, green and black). The small and solid base will not take up space on the desk and the camera can also be used without the base and cable keeping your desk space clutter free.

4. Magnifying text and objects
The camera’s adjustable neck and manual focus can be used as a basic microscope to enlarge by 10x small objects or text, a useful feature for children with visual impairment or for scientific purposes.

Presentation video of the HUE HD Pro camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u3GNfH3GwM&feature=emb_title

Video from Kildwick school describing the uses of the HUE HD Pro camera in a classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWHkYGI_qQ&t=1s

Customer testimonials available at: https://huehd.com/customer-testimonials/

Case studies can be found at: https://huehd.com/tag/guest-post/

For more information please visit the product page: huehd.com/pro.

The HUE HD Pro manual can be downloaded from here: https://files.huehd.com/downloads/HUEProManual.pdf

HUE – Colourful, affordable technology to inspire creative teaching and learning
www.huehd.com

Instagram : @hue_hd
Twitter : @HUEHD
Facebook : @HUEHDProducts

Available online at: www.huehd.com/shop – www.amazon.com

Club Eimmie Subscription

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A subscription for a girl, her doll, and their imaginations

At Club Eimmie, we create the toys, she creates the adventure. Each month, Club Eimmie members receive a Playtime Pack filled with outfits, accessories, and playsets for their 18-inch dolls.

For a limited time only, you can subscribe to Club Eimmie and get your first Playtime Pack for just $19.99!

Your Playtime Pack Includes:

1 Adorable Doll Outfit w/ Shoes and Accessories
1 Cozy PJ Set w/ Slippers and Sleeping Mask
A $10 gift card for Eimmie.com
1 Club Eimmie Adventure Journal to Document All Your Fun
1 Coupon for a FREE Doll Hairbrush
Access to Exclusive Stories, Activites and Play Prompts & More
(future playtime packs are billed at $19.99 per month- cancel at any time)

Available online at: https://eimmie.com/pages/what-is-club-eimmie-subscription

Pocket Pals

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Designed to reassure and empower a shy or anxious child, Pocket Pals can be tucked into your child’s pocket, backpack, or lunch box. With custom designed fabric patterns, a variety of textures for sensory seekers and a perfectly placed pocket for a reassuring note or memento from a caregiver, Pocket Pals can help soothe an anxious child throughout the day.

Available online at: http://yourpocketpals.com/

Super Duper Digital Library

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The Super Duper Digital Library provides more than 365 standards-based online resources (with more being added daily) for parents and educators to use in distance and hybrid/blended learning with students in PreK-Grade 5. These educational materials include a host of unique, engaging instructional games, cards, and worksheets. Each item targets a specific skill, such as basic concepts, literacy, grammar, social skills, critical thinking, sequencing, listening, early skills, articulation, phonemic awareness, memory, motor skills, sensory integration, phonics, reading, and more. All of the resources can be easily accessed online for use at home or in a classroom. In addition, they are compatible with desktop computers, laptops, digital whiteboards, and mobile devices, such as Chromebooks, tablets and smartphones. Visit https://www.superduperinc.com/library/

Available online at: https://www.superduperinc.com/library/