"Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips, and music. Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips, and music, using them to generate a video similar to a trailer. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing a unique video every time. The site also claims that no two videos are ever the same." ("Animoto," 2011) There are various pricing plans, but the free version allows for the creation of unlimited 30-second videos. Animoto is available for free at http://animoto.com/ It seems the creators of Animoto are working on a educational plan for educators. In the meantime there appears to be a free all-access pass for educators which must be renewed online every six months. You can get the specifics at the following website: http://help.animoto.com/entries/104075-what-s-going-on-with-animoto-for-education
Literacy and Technology?
Animoto is a wonderful, easy-to-use video creator which takes pictures and video clips to make professional quality videos. Animoto is similar to Photo Story and could be used in project-based learning. You might be wondering how Animoto can help with literacy instruction. Animoto helps with information literacy, visual literacy, and technology literacy. Information literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, and synthesize information. Visual literacy is the ability to understand, produce and communicate throughvisual images. Technology literacy is the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity, and performance. Students develop each of these types of literacy through Animoto by needing to self-select the pictures and videos being used in their video, and determine which music piece and video background best fit their project and audience. Students can use Animoto for presenting on practically any topic. Animoto would help students learn a subject matter in a whole new way. Some sample ideas for using incorporating Animoto into literacy instruction would be with vocabulary. Students would need to know the definition of the word as well as how to represent that word in either picture or video form. Here is an example of a vocabulary Animoto for the class novel The Breadwinner: The Breadwinner Vocab. Students could also create a book trailer for their independent, literature circle, or whole class book. Teachers can use this as a way to introduce students to a new topic or unit. A fantastic example of a teacher using Animoto to introduce a new topic is from an American History teacher: TeacherThink Presents: Animoto 4 Education. Another example is a science teacher's Animoto on the periodic table: Animoto in Education.
More ideas?Students can improve literacy skills through Animoto by creating digital stories revolving around personal narratives, examining historical events, and stories that inform or instruct.
References
Animoto. (2011). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animoto
cutekitten20. (2008). Animoto in education [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Xzmx2kWpM
Etzel, M. (2010, January 26). What's going on with animoto for education?. Retrieved from http://help.animoto.com/entries/104075-what-s-going-on-with-animoto-for-education
Sweeney, J. (2009). The breadwinner vocab [Web]. Retrieved from http://animoto.com/play/5nPQiBNB4yHHjVeSXRSZDg
TeacherThink. (2010). Teacherthink presents: animoto 4 education [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8UpgYnGWe4
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