Animoto in the Classroom

Animoto

Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, the perfect tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.
Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account to use in the classroom.

List serve ideas for using animoto:
The following are ideas for using Animoto within the classroom:

I use it to make book trailers.  The language arts teachers have used it to display six-word memoirs their students write.  They have the students each make a PowerPoint slide (and then convert those to .jpg files) with the six words they've chosen and a picture to represent their memoir.  The teachers create one Animoto video per class because of the limitation on song length.  Hope that makes sense.

Our teachers are using Animoto (grade 9 and 10) to do book trailers in English.  A Health teacher (9 grade) used it to do public service announcements for different drug use.  A Physic's team (grade 9) is talking about using it to explain the different possibilities for alternative energy choices.

The 9th grade English teacher and I just did a collaboration where the students did 30 second book trailers for their recreational reading books. The kids loved it, and got really into it, and the principal came down for a whole period to watch the finished products. Definitely something we will do again.

I started using it in persuasive writing.  A 5th grade teacher asked me for help and I suggested taking their writing and turning it into an Animoto movie.  They had written to their parents asking for a pet.  We condensed their arguments into 7 ppt slides (1 title slide, 3 slides for their points, 3 for parent responses)  They LOVED it! 
Preview a lesson, "hype it"

"Advertising" a field trip or event

Student projects: theme, tone, mood, symbolism, conflict, point of view

Persuasive visual essays

Visual narratives

Scrapbook or yearbook retrospective

Reports: work experience placement, presentation of cultural study of country, state reports

Music class: visuals to fit the musical style/composition being studied