Animoto

Animoto for Education
[|Animoto] is a Web 2.0 application that allows students the opportunity to produce videos with professional-quality video effects. It is not only incredibly engaging, but easy enough for Lower School children to use.

Teacher Tip: Educators can get an "all-access" pass that allows you to make as many feature-length videos as you want. The only tricky issue is that children under 13 cannot register. However, there is a work-around.

Register for a free gmail account--I used a different gmail account for each class. Once you have that original e-mail address registered at Gmail.com, you can then go to Animoto and register for your students who are under the age of 13 by entering your gmail address + a number such as emailaddress+1@gmail.com emailaddress+2@gmail.com emailaddress+3@gmail.com You can register up to 20 "dummy" accounts for each email address. All notifications from Animoto under these accounts will be sent to the original e-mail (i.e. emailaddress@gmail.com). This way, you'll be able to give each student a unique Animoto account, while also being able to monitor their account's activity.
 * (IMPORTANT: Make sure you are registering your students using the Classroom Code Link provided for you by Animoto. If you don't, then the students won't have All-Access).**

Our 3rd graders were each assigned a State and given the following task: You are in charge of your state's Office of Travel and Tourism. You must make a video which encourages people to travel to and vacation in your state.You will collect at least 25 images which communicate the uniqueness and beauty of your state. Think about including pictures of tourist attractions, museums, things to do, landscape, parks, wildlife, famous people from your state, and state symbols. You will produce the video by uploading the images into Animoto, arranging them, and using the State Song as the background music.

**Please view the following wonderful examples from two Baldwin students on the states of Alabama and North Carolina! **

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This [|link] will take you to the FAQ section on Animoto's website about using the tool in Education.