Animoto+--+Kate+Wellington

Animoto -- Kate Wellington

Animoto is a program which integrates your pictures (both still and video clips) with music and design elements to make a slide presentation. You can customize it with your choice of pictures, videos, music, and picking a pre-made design for your slides. You can also add text! This can be used for personal or business use and can be uploaded to several social networks including facebook, photobucket, twitter, youtube, picasa, flickr, tumblr, etc. They can also be e-mailed, saved to your hard drive, or burned onto a DVD. The price range for this program is free to pretty expensive (for businesses, etc.), but teachers can get a free account. (This may take several weeks to process through).

This program could be utilized in the classroom much like powerpoint is currently, but it’s a little more aesthetically pleasing. Another way you could utilize this would be to have students make presentations of a topic you’ve covered (or will cover) in class.

My idea: Erin Worley Animoto can also be used to make animated invitations. They could create an invitation for a cultural event that they are learning about in class...like for a Thanksgiving Feast.

Comment: Sharon Blasen I love this idea and can't wait to try it for use with vocabulary for a unit. The teacher could introduce or front load vocabulary at the beginning of a unit or students could create a presentation at the end for review. I am excited about the connection to content areas like Social Studies! :)

Comment: Cheryl Prindle This has potential for shy students to make presentations of their language use in a less scary way. They can redo videos as many times as they need to and then add in the music, etc. I am always reluctant to force some very shy students to present in front of the class. High school peer pressure can be such a limiting factor for self-conscious learners and this is a new tool to use.