I just got this email from another ESU tech person in Lincoln.  It is a collaborative animation project that is explained in the message below!

I just came across what appears to be an interesting collaborative project opportunity for multimedia classes. It is called Rotoball 2009.

NUTSHELL: Every school or team follows a set of simple rules for creating a 15 second animated video. Completed videos are due in April 2009, when all of the participating videos will be assembled into a single movie. The movie is then shown at a student film festival in Shanghai, and made available online.

You can create your 15 second animated vidos with whatever tool fits your curriculum; Flash, Photoshop CS3, etc.

Learn more at Rotoball 2009.