This project is still in the planning stages and is going to be one of the most challenging I've ever done, but also exciting and potentially very rewarding. A creative form of crime related reconciliation. Working with a CLC in Bristol, local community police, three secondary schools and hopefully some of the amazing talent in the animation industry in Bristol , we are going to give young gang 

A great opportunity for any budding young animators, Sharp-Shotz is in it's second year and is organised by Aardman Animations and UWE.  The themes for the competition are drugs, knives and guns! With the aim of delivering awareness messages.  For years I've been telling students not to include knives, guns, chain saws, rocket launchers and other items of death and destruction in their animation

This link I found by accident and I love it! The art work of Banksy lives and breaths on the streets of the UK, I think a book has been published but this link is a pool of photo's taken of Banksy's art work. So now you can appreciate the talent in the comfort of your home or art class! It's a great use of Flickr, creating a focused pool of photos on an artist/theme. Perfect for the art teacher

This short animation was made during a two hour animation session for teachers in Cape Town, South Africa. The five music teachers involved had never animated before and had very limited resources, the brief I gave all eighty teachers was to create a short animation they could use with their class as a teaching resource.  This animation makes great use of sound and has a very simple theme, easily

This isn't my first flip movie, but the results of my first video training session using the very popular and affordable Flip Video Camera, involving eighty teachers in Cape Town, South Africa. Another short session, introducing video editing with iMovie, then a brief explanation of using the Flip Video ( This is the easiest camera I've ever used) participants in pairs filmed for about 15 mins

Day two of a six day tour of South Africa, training teachers to use Apple technology in the classroom. Cape Town is the creative hub of South Africa home to video and film production for the advertising and TV world. Beautiful beaches and sceanery, fantastic light and most of all low production costs.During the two days 80 teachers have learnt to edit and shoot video, work with digital still

There's a fantastic opportunity for young creatives aged 13- 19 . BBC Blast  want films, animations etc work for possible screening on BBC 2 and at the BFI in London in December. Click here for the link. There's also information about funding for students to develop their creative skills working with the BBC. 

An important area of digital creativity is to ensure any work created is shared with the community. Now this can be a global community via websites and Youtube or a more local community with DVD's/ CD's. But it is a crucial part of the process for students finding and thinking about an audience. When a filmmaker or musician steps back from their work and lets it go, they'll look at it very 

As I travel around the UK, Europe and occasionally further, my aim is to collect, information and evidence of 21st Century learning and share via this blog with photo's, videos, interviews and what ever I can get my hands on. Exposing the impact of schools, authorities , individuals, (students and teachers) conferences and companies who are having an effect on driving education into the 21st