Education Examples

iStopMotion animation created by Andreas (8 years). Audio and sounds added in iMovie HD on a Mac. Well done!

Apple Distinguished Educator Michael Fromm's 10 year old son animated this amazing story about a bad old pirate getting told off by his mom. Tools of the trade: iStopMotion, iSight, PowerBook and MegaBloks.

Students having fun with iStopMotion at the Walter Reeds Middle School in North Hollywood, CA.

Seven StopMotion animations from students (aged 9 to 12) at a small primary school in Western Australia, produced with iStopMotion and much fantasy. Thanks to Patrick Tehvand.

16 Students had 4 hours sharing 4 computers to write a storyboard, build the actors and to learn iStopMotion. Thanks to Ryan DeWitt.

One of the marvellous stop motion animation movies from a homeschooling group featuring a dramatic storyline and cute characters. Beware of the shark!!

Mr. T. and his 13 years old students at an international school in Tokyo made this dramatic movie with iStopMotion, iMovie and GarageBand. Well done!

A claymation made by 5th grade students from Steinfort. There are many more animations from this school available on YouTube.

This time lapse (~90x real-time) video-microscopy shows the interaction between two marine microorganisms, a foraminifer and dinoflagellate algae. The large disc-shaped thing is the foraminifer, it is collecting the dinoflagellates around it. These dinoflagellates are the same algae that live inside corals, and these foraminifera have a similar symbiotic relationship with their algae as do corals. Scientists can use this kind of time-lapse video to compress processes that happen on a longer time scale into a few seconds, increasing our understanding of the dynamic nature of the living world. Scott Fay of the UC Berkeley used a Nikon inverted phase contrast scope and a Nikon D80 camera.