Animoto

Animoto is a website that takes the ordinary slide show and adds pizazz. The creator of a video imports pictures and inludes text for the video, chooses music (there are many optionson the site), and Animoto does the rest! The teacher registers under Animoto for educators and get an all access pass that's good for 6 months. The students then register using the information from the teacher so that they too can have a 6 month all access pass. This allows the creator of the video to make one that is longer than 30 seconds. Animoto is quite user friendly and creates projects that look like they were much more involved than they were in reality. I have used Animoto for the students to complete projects for our class, I've created my own videos that were used as introductory and review tools, and I've even created ones that were used to teach information to the students. If there is more content than music, you can create your own music using GarageBand and upload that to Animoto. It's rather easy to do just make sure that it's in MP3 format when you share the song to iTunes. If you don't choose a song that's long enough, content will be cut out of the Animoto video. You can judge how long the song should be using the information on the screen that you put information and pictures on because it says estimated length of video. Then choose your music accordingly.

Here are some examples: Here is an example of an Animoto video that I created and used as a teaching tool for my World Studies classes. I have also assigned the students projects where they created their own videos on Animoto.

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Science Animoto Example