I am a Peace Corps Volunteer in Europe in the Country of Bulgaria. I am new to this site but have been teaching in Bulgaria for three years. I have put a couple of coloring books together for my students and want to begin to animate some of the pics. I am currently putting together a coloring book for children with special needs to teach them different animals and the letters of the alphabet. I am hoping to animate the letters and the animals. I was interested in any suggestions on how to begin… Continue

I've been lucky enough to attend several of Oscar Stringer's animation workshops and one of the things he always says is that you don't have to get your hands mucky and use plasticine as you can animate anything, even the contents of your pencil case.

So, when I found this video from Cauldeen Primary School in Scotland, I thought I'd share it as it proves the point!!
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I've just spent four days working at Bewdley High school with year 10. The money was raised, by a small team of students to cover the costs from a local charity. Each workshop was two days long and over the four days 14 short films were produced. Next term DVD's of the films are being sent out to local schools as a resource for teachers to use with year 7,8 and 9 to start classroom discussion on these tricky areas of mental health. Animation is a great medium for exploring these issues.

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On Friday I was asked to run 2 x 2 hour long animation sessions for the Film Education conference held in Brighton.
This short format workshop/session is becoming more popular and I'm now getting to used to it. I've spent the last five years running day long teacher inset days, which are far more civilised, but conferences tend to do the many different flavours approach.

I suddenly realised, twittering on Friday that these animation sessions were more of a speed animation session, much like spe… Continue