Posts by Mark Taylor
141: How to become an animator with Evan Burse
Do you want to know how to become a successful animator and create a YouTube channel with over 260,000 subscribers? Listen to how Evan Burse from The Cartoon Block did it.
Evan has been an animation professional for over 10 years. He’s worked on such shows as Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Black Panther, Marvel’s Hulk and The Agents of S.M.A.S.H., and Teen Titans.
Since 2009, Evan has been passionately teaching aspiring artists how to draw their favourite characters on his YouTube channel, Cartoon Block. The channel has accumulated over 260,000 subscribers and over 18 million views. Evan enjoys sharing his passion for drawing while inspiring young artists to follow their artistic goals.
His website is dedicated to helping you become a better artist. Whether it’s impressing your friends…or improving your portfolio so you can get a job in the animation/comic book industry; whatever your dreams are, Evan is here to help you make them a reality!
Evan lives in Los Angeles, California
Questions asked on the Podcast
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources mentioned
Contact information
The Cartoon Block Youtube Channel
The Cartoon Block Facebook Page
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lightning of a fire’
Join the community at https://www.patreon.com/educationonfire
140: The Yoghurt & Juice Network
Health and nutrition education for teachers and parents. Support your children to learn about their wellbeing in school or online.
The Yoghurt & Juice Network was an idea born during a long car journey, where founders and Nutritionists, Yasmin and Jenna, were fed up of listening to the responsibility of the current state of children’s health being passed between parents, schools, industry, government and so on.
As a result, they decided to take on some of the responsibility themselves, by creating The Yoghurt & Juice Network and providing credible nutrition education, first hand, to children, parents and teachers in schools and colleges. The network strives to achieve it’s aims through delivering classroom workshops, assemblies, whole school initiatives and teacher and parent talks through innovative and creative means.
At The Yoghurt and Juice Network we strongly believe that healthy eating should always be enjoyable, delicious and never a chore. We believe in educating children to allow them to enjoy making healthier choices whilst understanding the benefits to their long term health.
We strongly feel that children should be provided with the best chances possible and understanding the relationship between what they eat and their health outcomes is the perfect place to start.
www.theyoghurtandjuicenetwork.com
Instagram @theyoghurt&juice_network
https://www.facebook.com/theyoghurtandjuicenetwork/
https://www.patreon.com/theyoghurtandjuicenetwork
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
How to listen to podcasts on this website
I demonstrate how to listen to the Education on Fire podcast here on the website in this 3min step by step video. It includes how to view the show notes, subscribe and find all the related links mentioned in the podcast.
How to play recorder for beginners
Inside the Primary Music on Fire membership we have videos and resources to help you teach the basics of music and beginner instrumental lessons.
To help you at this time we wanted to release our recorder workshop which contains:
– Introduction to the instrument
– Introduction to rhythm & pulse
– Introduction to pitch
– Introduction to notation
– 3 pdf workbooks
– Worksheets for pupils
…….and more
You might want to learn yourself or share with your school for people to learn at home.
Take a look now it’s freely available to all at:
https://www.educationonfire.com/recorder-free/
Keep safe, well and inspiring,
Mark & Carol
139: Overthrowing Education with Batsheva Frankel
Today we discuss how the current lockdown and remote learning could change the education system forever.
Batsheva Frankel, MAT, is a veteran teacher of over 25 years. In 2011, she began developing the award-winning LaunchBox products, which are games and activities that explore big philosophical ideas.
She is also the creator of Lenses of Questioning, a methodology for helping students develop critical and analytical thinking skills. Batsheva has given classes and workshops for educators all over the US and UK, including at the Deeper-Learning Conference, The California Association for the Gifted, GameLevelLearnCon, Limmud Festival and NewCAJE. She designs curriculum and creative programming, as well as mentors teachers for institutions across the US.
From her long-time teaching and administrative gig at Areté Preparatory Academy, Batsheva and the head of Areté Prep, Jim Hahn, formed The Areté Institute in Los Angeles to actively participate in and contribute to the larger conversation about what great education could and should be and how to make it happen.
As director of The Areté Institute, Batsheva produces and hosts the podcast Overthrowing Education as well creates programming for both educators and parents. Her book, The Jewish Educator’s Companion: Practical Tools and Inspirational Ideas was published in 2017 (Behrman House)
Twitter @overthrowinged
Insta @overthrowingeducation
FB: https://www.facebook.com/OverthrowingEducation
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk