Animoto



Animoto is a web tool that allows users to easily incorporate images, text, and music into web based videos. Resources:
 * **//[|Sample Animoto Video]//**
 * **//[|Animoto for Education]//** (examples and case studies of Animoto in the classroom)
 * //**[|Blog Entry]**// about Animoto for Education
 * **[|Tutorial]**on how to use Animoto with students
 * **// [|Youtube tutorial] //**
 * **// [|Animoto Example Videos] //**
 * **// [|Animoto in RCPS Classroom] //**

Ideas for the classroom =Examples of Use in the Classroom= [|American Symbols Tease] – used with 2nd grade Bill of Rights – created as a review, discussion promotion for secondary level Bird Feet Birds – beaks & feet used in an adaptation [|lesson] [|Bluebonnets 2007 Tease] [|Book Character Day] [|Book Pumpkins] – used with kindergarten to intorduce fiction & nonfiction Dancing Feet - doing a little happy dance…just for fun! Earth Day 2008 - visual imagery for going green! [|Fractions] [|Free At Last] (Civil rights) Geometry in Everyday Life and Everyday Geometry [|Halloween Library Aides 2007] Introduction to TEXAS [|Librarians at Work] [|Literary Elements]- visuals to promote discussion [|Magnets & Magnetism] Native American Culture – 8th grade American [|history]. historic drawings, representations Plants Plants Too Puritans Arrive in America [|Rube Goldberg] physics [|Simple Machines] Space & Planets [|Summer Reading Selections] for high school [|students] (longer length) Tibet - Views of Tibet & Olympic protest for 9th grade World Geography [|10 States] that 1st Grade must learn [|Texas Lone Star Books] for 2007 Texas Symbols and People [|Views of Texas]
 * Create a 30 second commercial or public service announcement about…
 * Summarize the main idea of this passage in images and words in 30 seconds or less
 * Create video flashcards for vocabulary keywords
 * Great for brainstorming and storyboarding
 * Create a simulated field trip
 * Great way to market your program to your school and local community
 * Present wonderful end of the year videos
 * Have students create a 30 second video about themselves at the beginning of the year so that everyone can get to know each other.
 * Great way to introduce a new learning concept to students.
 * Great way to evoke student interest. I am using it for Antigone.
 * Have students create a short photo brochure of a country you are studying.
 * Allow students to showcase their pictures taken on a particular topic as part of a larger project.
 * Have students create 30 second news briefs about historical news events, natural disasters, or any event that ties into curriculum
 * Have students collect pictures around a certain topic, create Animoto, swap Animotos, then use for brainstorming a creative writing piece.
 * Students can create short videos showing the steps they took in completing a Science Project.