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"Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring Monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn't easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked - in every case being absolutely smashed. Let's take a look at the collection of 25 brilliant animated short movies. Among them you'll find funny cartoons, typography-related movies as well as artistic masterpieces - hopefully everybody will find something interesting and unusual for his/her personal taste."

Short Story Unit

"Poets.org has partnered with TextTelevision to offer TextFlows, an alternative approach to reading and experiencing poetry. By converting text dynamically into Flash animation, poems are revealed phrase by phrase through motion and light, and at a pace controlled by the reader. The simplified words and crisp motion fixes one's attention on the subtleties of language, increasing involvement, engagement, and understanding"

"These 34 animated films were created by students working with docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University's creative writing program, in association with the Poetry Foundation"

Poetry Unit

"Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry "

"Feeding Shelter Animals, One Piece of Kibble at a Time"

Feature Article unit