Animoto allows you to create short videos or photo collages set to music about a particular theme. Animoto is "flashier" than a tradition powerpoint slide. It is limited in length to 30 seconds so choices of images need to be specific as the video needs to convey the project theme in a short time frame. Animoto is a great tool to engage the students of today who have a quest for instant gratification and do not like to sit through a long presentation or lecture. Animoto allows you to personalize their videos through choices in music tracks, themes, and selection of photos surrounding their topic theme.
My video below, focuses on our WebQuest on Engineering Design. This video is an introduction to our WebQuest assignment to get you excited to brainstorm everyday problems and solutions. We will use this as our jumping off point for our classroom brainstorming session. After watching my animoto video think about how you might create an Animoto video or other short video about the theme of your engineering design project.
Engineering Design
Student Assignment: Student Shark Tank
Do you have what it takes to impress the "sharks"? Create a 30 second animoto video to pitch your project idea. Think about using PicMonkey to create images for your Animoto video.
SOURCES
www.animoto.com
www.pickmonkey.com
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/using-animoto-technology-integration-activities.shtml
http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/bringing-lessons-life-with-30885.html
Did you know you can actually sign up for an educator account? The information is in the discussion board. I also gave you my educator code if you want to sign up for a free one with my code for 6 mo. When you sign up, you get 50 free student codes to use. That takes away the watermark and it is now up to 6 minutes in length.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome by the way. Fun concept of shark tank and pitching their idea.
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