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Check out the improved McLaren’s Workshop App!

Check out the improved McLaren’s Workshop App!

We’re starting 2014 in style with a not-so-new but definitely improved version of our McLaren’s Workshop App! After winning the incredibly prestigious Grand Prize in the Website or Application (Arts...

NFB Education Heads to India!

NFB Education Heads to India!

The NFB Education team heads to India to teach 4 iPad animation workshops at the Chinh India Kids' Film Festival.

How to Use the New McLaren’s Workshop App in Your Classroom

How to Use the New McLaren’s Workshop App in Your Classroom

Interactive apps are an amazing addition to the classroom, as they offer students a unique way to learn new media skills and develop their creative abilities. Teaching animation is a...

Make a Norman McLaren of Yourself with Our New iPad App

Make a Norman McLaren of Yourself with Our New iPad App

Yesterday, we launched McLaren’s Workshop, a nifty free iPad app aimed at making the world a bit less unfair. Because let’s be honest: life is terribly unfair. Most of us...

Teach the War of 1812 with Our Free Tablet App

Teach the War of 1812 with Our Free Tablet App

This is a guest post written by Anne Koizumi, Education Specialist and Workshop Facilitators at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, QC. Only a month ago I was...

Free NFB Apps: A Recap

Free NFB Apps: A Recap

As far as misfortunes go, being Canadian and never having heard of the National Film Board has to be on par with loving the NFB and never having installed the...

Using the iPad and the NFB’s PixStop app in your classroom

Using the iPad and the NFB’s PixStop app in your classroom

Edited on June 5, 2012 to add: The PixStop app works only with later versions of the iPad that include a camera. This is a guest post by Paul Carrière,...

How to make a cardboard tripod for your iPad

How to make a cardboard tripod for your iPad

Four days after we launched Pixstop, our new and terrific stop-motion application, a reader called Pierre Durand left us a comment on the blog. In his message, Pierre said (in...

NFB’s PixStop app for the iPad 2 – Your classroom’s “mobile studio”

NFB’s PixStop app for the iPad 2 – Your classroom’s “mobile studio”

The following is a guest post by Kathy Sperberg. If you had told me when I was growing up that learning could happen with the touch of a finger instead...

Want to create stop-motion films? We made an app for that!

Want to create stop-motion films? We made an app for that!

There’s just no stopping the NFB’s web developers. Hot on the heels of the NFB Films iPhone, iPad, Android and PlayBook mobile apps, our devoted developers has come up with...

Updates for our iPhone and iPad apps are now available

Updates for our iPhone and iPad apps are now available

We’ve just released updates for both our iPad and iPhone apps. The changes, outlined below, are a direct result of your feedback and suggestions. Thank you for helping us build...

The NFB Films iPad app is now available!

The NFB Films iPad app is now available!

Drum roll, please…. The NFB Films iPad app is now available through iTunes. With this app, you can watch over 1000 movies – documentaries, animations and feature films – free...