which allows you to upload pictures and video. You choose styles which suggest music and add special features. All this for free! Here is an example of movie created with One True Media. http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=62e2d76d0afd3dfc61de80&skin_id=1004&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url
We have also used ANIMOTO and Rock You to create and then embed/post on websites.…
s with my 5 daughters and getting my masters. We are a small county and I'm at the only high school with about 700 students. After years in elementary ed, I'm surprised at how much I like high school. The librarian (or should I say School Media Specialist) has an important role in school instructional technology in that s/he is a leader in its uses and applications, at least that's how I view it. I've been very successful with getting teachers to use new things. My biggest hit this year has been animoto. So now I've got to find something else to wow them with.…
reation: Phoster
Also, check out an app called "Notability" as an alternative to Glogster. It isn't designed to be a poster making App, but it has some potential for student creation.
The addition of dual cameras and iMovie to iPad2 makes it the best content creation tool for students, in my opinion.
In any case, your district has to decide what its instructional goals are and selected tools based on what you want your students to do. Best of luck!…
o is here to save you time and still give you the video your students can enjoy and share!
I have personally used Animoto for back to school nights and in my Language Arts classes to help students understand themes, characterization and symbolism within the novels we cover. Animoto is simple, easy and free for educators to use. All you need is a digital camera (or properly cited photos form the web), a laptop and an Animoto account for educators. Watch how simple it is…
Here are some ways you can utilize Animoto in your classroom
Create Novel Movie Trailers!
Animoto utilizes “MTV Style” editing to show brief clips of a specific subject or theme set to music. This is perfect for gleaning the main elements of a novel or chapter you just read in class.
At the end of the school year when you are reviewing for finals or mid terms (depending on your schools academic calendar) have the students make a brief Animoto video that they can use to
Reflect on what the novel or unit was about
Pick out the important elements of the chapter or novel
i. Main Points
ii. Characters
iii. Themes
iv. Symbols
v. Setting
Tell them that their audience will be next year’s incoming class and they have to convince them that this novel will be an amazing read! Just like film directors would do with a summer blockbuster.
If you want to stretch out this assignment and go a step further, visit http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ and you can create movie posters for the novels.
i. You see what is happening here…Students are creating a product that requires them to use prior knowledge and also display that knowledge in a creative manner.
As a teacher, you can show these videos on the first day of class next year. You can print out and hang up the movie posters of the novels on your bulletin board.
Here is how easy it is to create an Animoto video
and...
Here is what I just created in roughly five minutes
Creating Animoto Videos in other Disciplines!
For Vocabulary words
At the beginning of the Vocabulary unit have go over the list of words with your students as you normally would at the beginning of a unit.
Have students define words, provide proper parts of speech and provide sentences (maybe 3 to 5).
Students are arranged in groups of two. Each group will be given the following:
i. One digital camera
ii. One Vocabulary word
Students will have to create an Animoto video for the word they are given. Students must include in their video:
i. The word
ii. The part of speech
iii. The definition
iv. At least two sentences
v. An image relating to the word
Once the videos are created, the teacher will present the videos to the class and will serve as a brief review for the upcoming Vocabulary quiz.
This would be a flashy way to introduce a new formula or problem. You can take the above examples and apply it to your discipline.
For Math teachers
In history class you could have students research an Amendment and make an Animoto video displaying the main points of that Amendment and also find images that represent that Amendment. This could work for numerous historical units:
For History teachers the possibilities are endless.
i. Presidents
ii. New Countries covered
iii. Bill of Rights
iv. American Wars
For Special Education and Life skills Teachers
This would be a great way to show your kids how to perform a basic task such as raising your hand
Students, with assistance, can find images of kids raising their hand in class. Students and teacher can assemble the images and even take a photo of the child performing the task, and compile them into an Animoto video.
This could work with various life skills
i. Crossing the street
ii. Washing your hands
iii. Brushing your teeth
Again, this is another practical, easy to use application that every teacher and student can use. I hope this idea has helped to bring technology into your classroom and look forward to hearing how you are using Animoto in your classroom!
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SEE the things I do and create. I know she has never seen my blog or my wiki. She hasn't seen me use my Flip and Small Wonder cameras. Perhaps I should let her use my Animoto account to create a video of pictures.
She does know about online safety, and she understands why I won't let her do certain things online and use certain websites.
I think I was thinking too much in terms of school-related projects and not enough about doing it just because.…
done a skype session with a neighboring school district. We conducted a classroom discussion via skype on Hamlet. The kids could interact with each other and see each other. It was a truly rewarding experience for the kids and teachers involved. I would love to set up an international session for next year and it is on my short goal list. Basically set up a wiki that say a class in Nepal can use and one that my students can use. They can discuss and post on the wiki and one of the final elements would be a skype session. I am excited about piloting this idea and will keep you posted on how it goes!…
from animoto. As they see your students the say their name. Also they ask some questions: 1. When we go there? 2. we have books like theirs. 3. Why do they not speak Turkish? Also, one of my students when we went to garden say that where is Jayson. She said that I like Jayson. Their frinedship is started:) Our project is very nice. Also, I put a video to my blog that they did in the English lesson. As a next project I will make them to draw pictures for them. What do you think about?
Take care,
Sevil:)…
oing online (after a period of messing around, of course!). Has anyone designed "assessment" tools for Scratch, Alice, Animoto, Floorplanner, Toondoo, Civ IV, Age of Empires, TheSims, Sim City, etc?
Add On 11/19/07
After reading Jeff's posting and discussion on assessment, I have clarified, in my own mind what I want. I don't know if I need assessment tools as much as accountability tools. I'm not trying to "teach" the tool I just want some way to know if the student is exploring all the possibilities beyond the easy "first steps" and it not quitting when the task becomes "too hard".…
Added by Nancy Bosch at 4:44pm on November 17, 2007
classroom application of the tool. I have linked these to Sensory learning style (VARK) and Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
The completed starter sheets are:
* Delicious
* Voicethread
* Wikispaces
* Google maps
* Google Advanced Search
* Buzzword
* Animoto
* Mixbook
* Mindmeister
* Google Forms
They are available at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets in PDF Format.
Cheers
Andrew…