Oscar Stringer's Blog (3)

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. There a… Continue

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

I had a great day yesterday, working with 20 Primary teachers from LA's in the West Midlands. They were all Modern Languages teachers and had signed up to my two hour workshop to find out how animation can help teach French and Spanish, keeping the students engaged and thinking about different languages and cultures, as well as their own. We decided to do adverts, keeping all minds focused is always a challenge and short adverts around a product or idea automatically keep everyone involved think… Continue