Animation Workshop -- Still spaces for kids ages 9-12

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There are spaces for kids ages 9-12 in the Animation Workshop - if you

know of any who would like to participate please get in touch. Thanks.

The College of Mass Communications and Information Studies is holding

and animation workshop with animation guru Joe Summerhays during

Children's Book Week.

The workshop will bring together elementary and home-schooled

students, students in both schools of the CMCIS to develop unique

story-telling techniques with stop-motion animation.

Summerhays visited the college last spring during I-Comm Week and

presented ways that animation is being used throughout the world to

give new angles to storytelling and new media.

WHERE: In The Frank Mcguire Room next to the Coliseum.

TIME: 9 am - 4 pm Nov. 13-14

COST: Free - Lunch provided

Here are a few examples of what's been done in other workshops:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZS3M9nkMhU

http://qt.imediauk.org/BECTA/CREATIVEDV2004/Speccy4eyes_300.mov

http://www.animationforeducation.co.uk/home_index.htm

You must be registered to participate in this event. Please email Pat

Feehan for registration information.

pfeehan@gwm.sc.edu

Thanks!

Dr. Pat Feehan

Associate Professor

School of Library and Information Science

College of Mass Communication and

Information Studies

University of South Carolina

803-777-2381 803-777-7938 (Fax)

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