Free full-length Animoto vids for educators
Animoto (the remarkable website that takes your photos and your sound files and puts them together into impressive-looking music videos) is making a generous offer to educators. They are offering teachers (AND their students) the chance to make full-length videos for free (the general public has to pay for videos over 30 seconds.)
Besides the fact that its just plain cool, there are tons of ways to use this in a teaching setting. For example maybe you’re working with pre-schoolers on beginning letter sounds. You can combine a song (or ANY kind of audio track, perhaps a recording of your precious little ones brainstorming “things that begin with the letter ‘t’”?) with a collection of photos of those things. The advantage to Animoto over, say, a slideshow created in iPhoto is that the final product is incredibly visually interesting, much more so than a simple slide show, and it coordinates beautifully with the music. Basically you get a genius-looking video without doing any of the work.
If you would like to take advantage of Animoto’s generosity proceed to:
Click here to see a sample of what Animoto can do… these are photos from the trip to the zoo I took with my husband.
