This is a great story from Tony Buck who posted this on the community blog a few months ago. A presentation in keynote, powerpoint and quicktime formats has now been added to complete the resource.

Ever been given that age old assembly topic of friendship? I’ve used this story in lots of schools with very positive results. I came across this in the resource section of Youthwork Magazine, summer 2006 - I tied it in with the football world cup in Germany. I shared this story with some of the other schools workers at the youthwork conference early day this year.

xtranormal is a new site that lets you create animated movies without any previous experience! Basically, you type in what you want characters to say, choose what they’ll look like and where the caerma will be and, before you know it, there’s a movie! I think has two real possibilities: one is giving young people the chance to make a movie as part of a project in, say, an RE lesson. The other is making movies that you can use in a presentation during a lesson or assembly. The site has plenty of examples of movies that have already been created and, whilst it’s not Pixar, the look is quite impressive. With a little practice you could put together something very cool. Have a go and see what you think!