Creaza Blog

Blog upgrade

Carl Morten Knudsen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:42:59 +0000

Creaza have upgraded our blog.

BETT show & BETT Awards approaching..

Carl Morten Knudsen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:19:59 +0000

Creaza will be at BETT 2010. The world’s largest educational technology event will take place 13 – 16 January 2010 at Olympia – London.

Creaza will be there every day at Stand V26

Creaza will also be a part of Stand J10 where you will find Fronter UK.

On January 13th the winners of BETT Awards will be announced during the BETT Awards event. Creaza will be there competing about the title.

We look forward to talk with you at our stand.

www.bettawards.com

www.bettshow.com

A feelgood movie

Carl Morten Knudsen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:29:50 +0000

Creaza just made a small fellgood movie using a random computer with a browser with a flashplugin in Berlin and with access to Creaza…

Import cartoons in MovieEditor

Arild Storm — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:35:09 +0000

In Creaza it is possible to import a cartoon from Cartoonist to MovieEditor. In that way it is possible to add sound to your comic strip. Here is an example of a (sort of) animated movie made in Creaza:

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Example of an exported movie

Arild Storm — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:47:38 +0000

This video example has been created with Creaza MovieEditor and has been exported to mp4:

For more videos, check out our channel at YouTube: youtube.com/CreazaTube

Creaza 3.0 released this weekend

Arild Storm — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:40:18 +0000

This weekend we released Creaza 3.0. The highlights from this release are some important features and improved GUI. Below you can see listed the new features and improvements.

Mindomo

Added more clipart and it is more structured.
New templates (skins) for the mindmaps
Easier access to notes, multimeda, hyperlinks and task information
“Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your mindmaps (*)

Cartoonist

Better zoom-functionality, now you can zoom in several times without having to zoom out (*)
“Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your cartoons (*)

MovieEditor

Export your movies as mp4-files (*)
Expand and collapse layers vertically. Default is collapsed. Expand for more functionality (adjust layer volume, mute, solo) (*).
Collapse layers horizontally for more workspace (*)
Add a marker to your timeline with descriptional text (*)
“Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your movies (*)
Drawing og waveforms on the audiolayers
Support for SWF- and GIF-animations in gfx-layers
Editing track title (*)

AudioEditor

Export your soundclips as m4a-files (*)
Expand and collapse layers vertically. Default is collapsed. Expand for more functionality (adjust layer volume, mute, solo) (*).
Collapse layers horizontally for more workspace (*)
Collapse the media browser for more workspace (*)
Add a marker to your timeline with descriptional text (*)
“Save as”-functionality, save new instances of your soundclips (*)
Drawing og waveforms on the audiolayers
Editing track title (*)

*Full version only

Creaza shortlisted at BETT Awards 2010

Carl Morten Knudsen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:29:07 +0000

BETT - the world’s largest educational technology event arranges BETT Awards every year. The Awards have a long and thorough evaluation of all products both technical, pedagogical and academic. This evaluation is done by 80+ judges on all products. The shortlist (finalist) was released on November 12th.

Creaza is so proud and excited to be a finalist in the large category 8: Tools for Learning and Teaching.

This nomination means a lot for Creaza and it confirms that professional people within technology and education finds Creaza to be a very good product for learning and teaching.

Still this does not stop the development of the product.

Creaza wants to make a difference in education to make learners achieve more, using the best web-based technology there is!

The shortlist was announced on November 12th. The evaluation was done on Creaza version 2.0. Today Creaza version 3.0 is released with a lot of new possibilities and functionality. A new post will be written on the blog with highlights of what is new and what is possible.

The winners in each category will be announced at the BETT Awards on January 13th during BETT.

Hope to see you all at BETT!

Creaza on the road

Carl Morten Knudsen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:46 +0000

3th and 4th of November 2009 Creaza participated at Uddannelsesforum in Odense, Denmark. Creaza was represented together with our partner Fronter Denmark. It was an exiting conference with quite a lot of people, both young and old, both pupils, teachers, ICT-coordinators, Headmasters and others.

At the event pupils from Denmark, using Creaza, presented how the work with the tool both for other pupils and for adults

It was really exiting to see how clever usage of Creaza they presented and it also gave us Creaza people some good ideas… There were pupils attending the conference both days and the well known “CreazaButtons” disappeared fast..

Some pictures:

The post war period and “the wall”

Carl Morten Knudsen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:29:10 +0000

With the thematic universe “The post war period” (only available in full version) students can work with many different subjects from the 50`s, 60`s, 70`s and 80`s in the worlds history. November 9th 1989 is one very important date regarding this. The wall and the borders splitting Berlin in two were opened.

This is what wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall

This is an example of a cartoon made with Cartoonist in Creaza using “The post war period” thematic Universe.

Creaza – on the move – used all over the world!

Carl Morten Knudsen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:59:28 +0000

Creaza has been a lot on the move lately. One of our partners, Fronter, have held their user conferences in several countries. Creaza has participated in the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish user conferences during the last weeks. We have done presentations and been available for users on our own Creazastand in every event.

The feedback Creaza has gotten regarding the pedagogical and technological possibilities to use the product in the pupils learning process is awesome We are very happy that Creaza gives pupils and students new creative and innovative possibilities to show and present their knowledge and competence.

All over the World:

Creaza is being used all over the world. Users from every continent has registrered at www.creaza.com and started using the demoversion of Creaza. In October norwegian users used Creaza the most. It is very exiting that the country placed right behind Norway in second place regarding usage this month is Brazil! Thats cool Have a look at this website: www.baixaki.com.br/download/creaza.htm

What`s happening the next weeks?

In week 43 Creaza will be in the UK. We are going to participate in events in Bristol, Kent and London in addition to other meetings with customers and partners.

In week 44 Creaza will be in Stockholm, Sweden, at “Skolforum 2009” This is the largest educational conference in Scandinavia with over 20 000 visitors..

In week 45 creaza will be in Odense in Denmark at “Uddannelsesforum 2009“. We will have a stand together with Fronter DK, and pupils from Denmark will show how they use Creaza.

It is a lot of travelling, but so joyful to meet users and people from schools and discuss possibilities with Creaza.

Do you only access the demoversion?

Here are some of the benefits with the full version of Creaza:

Export from all tools:
Mindomo – PDF
Cartoonist – High resolution PDF for print
MovieEditor – MP4
AudioEditor – M4a

Record sound directly in Creaza in your browser

Import cartoons into MovieEditor

Use effects and transitions in MovieEditor

Additional storage

Content:

The full version of Creaza contains a lot more Thematic Universes than the demoversion. For example there are many Cartoonist Universes made by professional artists and with Norways largest publiser as editor for the Universes. Some examples are:

The post war period
World War II
The Roman Empire
The Viking Age

In MovieEditor the fullversion of Creaza contains 3 more Thematic Universes with many movieclips and both in MovieEditor and AudioEditor you will find a lot of Music and Sound Effects..

Global Village:

Food, Water & Climate
People & Life
Energy
Nature
Transportation
War & Terrorism

World Cities:

Movieclips from many cities around the world

Exotic Animals:

Movieclips of animals all over the world