Learn how to create animated texturemaps. A very cool tutorial but not for absolute beginners.

André Luan Chiquetto Nascimento (Brutto AVT) has published on his personal website a tutorial for Sunflow newbies. The tutorial covers the basic steps to render an simple scene and introduces the sintax of a sunflow file.

Blender has a built-in video editor. Learn how to work with it and create a cool short videoclip.  An often underestimated function of Blender is the Sequence Editor. It is a complete video editing system that allows you to combine multiple video channels and add effects to them. Even though it has a limited number of operations, you can use these to create powerful video edits (especially when you combine it with the animation power of Blender!) And, furthermore, it is extensible via a Plugin system quite alike the Texture plugins.