Mark Boylan of ICT Links held his first Summer School at the Courthouse Arts Centre in Otley, West Yorkshire in July. Vera created a nice report with the pictures and movies from the event.

The music school in Köniz (near Bern in Switzerland) organises a music camp every year. This year the head of the music school had the idea to set silhouette films by Lotte Reiniger to music. See the cool movies they created with iStopMotion and read more about the camp.

George Rota's Students were busy creating animations with iStopMotion. He writes:

The kids loved working with iStopMotion! It is so easy to use. I gave each class a computer, a tripod and movie camera and they went to work. I gave a 45 minute introduction and off they went planning and creating! I love their projects. We will be doing this again next year plus this summer I will be co-teaching an animation class with my son.

Mark Pentleton notifies us of the availability of the movies from the Film Festival of Partners in Excellence. The animations were made during a 3 day residential course where all participants (native English speakers living in Scotland) had to speak in French the entire time, while creating their stories and models. Mark writes:

First of all, thanks for a fantastic product in the shape of iStopmotion Pro which we continue to use in our language learning project. We've been using digital video for 5 years and we made our first films with iStopmotion last summer.

Partners in Excellence aims to give young people learning foreign languages more opportunities to practise their language skills in exciting and innovative contexts.

The ICT Department Animation Group of The King's School, Worcester, produced the short animation "Mind your head" featuring Sir Isaac and an Apple during lunchtime sessions, using iStopMotion with an iSight camera running on a PowerMacintosh G4.

Steve Travis organised a Animations Project in his Son's Kindergarden. The Kids animated the Numbers 1 - 30. The Movie will be part of the Lincoln County Student Film Festival

Life's a Beach and The Big Snowball - these clay animations were created by Oscar Stringer at his South Street Studios workshop, visit the website to see more great movies created by students and to get more info about his training options in UK.

The kids from Oakhill Primary School, UK (aged 6) won the Becta DV Award 2004 with their Clay Animation Speccy4eyes.

They used iStopMotion for the animation and finished it off in iMovie. The kids did everything including the capturing and editing and they are only six years old.

Thanks to Jenny Hulme for the link.