Almost 5 hours of video tutorials by photographer Rick Rosen explain everything from first steps to creating slideshows for the web and DVD. A great resource if you want to get more out of FotoMagico. Contact Rick through his website for more details.

Stephen Manning reports on the BETT booth for Times Educational Supplement (TES) in the January 19th edition:

Year 9 and 10 pupils at King Harold school, a comprehensive in Waltham Abbey, Essex, demonstrated their prowess with clay animation at last week's BETT show in London - the highlight of the technology in education calendar.

This movie shows a live performance during a Christmas Cantata with the choir of First Baptist Church Mt. Healthy in Cincinnati, Ohio USA using an Apple Powerbook 17-inch, G4/1Ghz with FotoMagico 1.8.

Marshal Sandler of apple-of-my-i.com uses and features Mouseposé in the screencast "Creating Screencasts on a Mac".

The first application I want to shine a spotlight on is Mouseposé. This little application actually puts a spotlight effect around your mouse pointer when you hit a special combination of keys. Mouseposé can also draw the clicks of your mouse during your presentation and highlight any keystrokes you make. This is a really easy way to let web viewers follow the action, in the kind of style you'd expect on a Mac.

Nat Torkington, writing for the O'Reilly Radar, thinks that using iStopMotion builds essential skills for programmers and used it in a three week computer class for 7 to 10 year old students from his kid's primary school who aspired to learn programming:

Programming is all about reducing big problems to small and easy tasks. So I paired up kids on two Macs I brought from home, and we used iStopMotion to build stop-motion animations. This teaches them to think in terms of small steps, while at the same time they become familiar with the computers. And, best of all, it's enormous fun.

Zirkusofia: "Las Kukiz se Animaron".

Steve Trash has been a professional ecological entertainer, kid comedian, and illusionist for over 25 years with appearances on CBS THIS MORNING, ESPN'S OUTDOORS and CNBC'S AMERICA'S TALKING. Now he is podcasting right from his home in Frog Pond, Alabama. Episodes 2 ("PT Cruiser & Flying Hiking Boots") and 5 ("Tiny Bottoms Trash TV NEWS") contain iStopMotion animation sequences.