Movie Making and animation

Todays objective is to look at different applications available to students for making movies.  The first application we looked at was found at http://www.dfilm.com/  Care should be given to this website as some material would not be appropriate for primary students.  The following link is the movie that I have quickly created this morning:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="285" width="381" align="middle"

Another site is http://www.zimmertwins.com/ You have to join the site.  Once in, it is incrediably easy to create a movie, by simply clicking on icons provided.  Students can add text to the text bubbles where needed.  Great for introducing students to film production as the icons clicked on create a basic story board for the students to follow.  I have a link for the film that I have created this morning, but unsure whether it will work:
http://www.zimmertwins.com/node/1051237

Above we see an example of Rebus Writing, which may be a great alternative for students who dislike writing and reading.  This example came from http://www.storygames.com/

Another fun site is http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ This site, students can build a virtual them, but by adding in different body parts from animals.  At the end, the program gives the student their "new species name", and some facts about the animal/s from which the parts have come from.  Here is mine:

Another site is http://www.reasonablyclever.com/ Here students can create a "lego" man.  May be incorporated into real life lego building, students might have to try and create a real lego man from one that has been digitally created.  Here is one that I have created in todays session:

There are also plenty of games available on line (eg http://www.pbskids.org/) that are educational but illustrate the use of animations.