Another educational solution to energize and bring excitement to the classroom? How about Animoto, a service that can be used to create videos from pictures, video, and music clips. Animoto can be a new way to introduce materials for education in a new way. The program is downloadable, and is user friendly and easy to use.
Animoto won a Webby award in 2009 for being the best services and applications website, as well as an SXSW web award for best film/video website. There are apps for Facebook and Iphone users, and educational uses abound.
The intention of Animoto was to create dynamic videos for various uses, and to draw in viewers by conceptually mimicking music videos and movie trailers all in one package. As a tool for teaching, Animoto can be used to narrate applications like PowerPoint to make these applications even more visually stimulating. As an educator, I know that some students are easily lost during a session of PowerPoint.
Animoto can be used in many, many ways in the classroom. Presenting classroom rules would be much more engaging using Animoto than handing them out on paper, plus is saves those copies. Other student oriented classroom uses include individual portfolio presentations, group presentations for classes, individual presentations for use in classes like Public speaking, and more. Teacher uses include things like presenting rules or syllabus in Animoto, revamping PowerPoint presentations to present content, and using the service as an absence tool. Teachers could create short video assets for play when gone from the classroom on school related business, when we know we’ll be out. “How to” videos would allow students to know what to do while the teacher is out, and would allow substitute teachers to see exactly what the students see to know what teacher expectations are. And all of this would be accomplished in an exciting, engaging format.
To sign up for and start with Animoto, just go to http://animoto.com/
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