Making movies

The kids love the website for making movies from text, it is called Xtranormal, and we'vce used it before. This is the last creation:

Enjoying Movies

It's been a long hobby for our family to enjoy the stories, scripts and FX from movies. We went to see AVATAR a couple of weeks ago. I left the theater happy because I had seen a movie that offered a story with many interesting ingredients: great FX, a good script, innovation and entertainment for us and the kids.

Avatar - Trailer

Official Avatar Movie

They were very excited watching the movie. And so the rest of the world, check the numbers here.
So we decided to avatarize the whole, and here are the results:

Fabrizio:


Dada:


Bruno:


Mama:

ICT skills in the family

I've always been curious about technology and children. I know from my work that they can get to be very savvy (boys), or very uninterested for it (usually girls).
Bruno and Fabrizio are a clear example of boys' interest in technology and thier initial steps in the ICT world are supported by their curiosity, easeness to use basic functions in a computer and endless imagination.
I've been using a movie-making website, Xtranormal, because it was entertaining, easy to do and potentially useful for academic purposes, especially in the area of digital expression.
Anyway, this morning I woke up after Fabrizio jumped to my bed between me and Jenny and started his day at 7:30 am. So I figured, might as well entertained him at the very beginning of the day with something different.
Fabrizio and Bruno had been practicing doing movies with a digital camera for a few weeks already, but never digitally. And, even though my assistance in the process was required, most of the script is theirs.
Here are some of the examples, enjoy!

Movie 1: Fabrizio and Dadda.


Movie 2: Bruno and Fabrizio.


Movie 3: Bruno and Dadda.