Digital Tool: Making Images more engaging with Animoto

This blog will be covering the powerful use of teaching using images or visual literacy.

 

 

Animoto

Description

Animoto turns the pictures on your PC, Camera, iPod Touch,iPad, smart phone and the iPhone into beautiful music videos! It takes just a few minutes to make one, and then you can share and collect them with your friends. Make as many as you like--they're totally free.

Here's what a Learning Manager can make videos of for the classroom:


- Journals/Stories
- Stunning Presentations
- Show and tell
- Learner who have difficulty expressing verbally what they mean but can express their thoughts visually
- Share with Students,teachers,family and friends

Build killer videos from your site or app

Quickstart enables websites and applications to easily send images, music and video clips into the award-winning Animoto video creation system. In minutes, users of your site can be making videos with content that you provide.

• Engage your students

    Put your existing images and music to work for your audience. Animoto is easy, quick and fun.

• Connect with students

    Build brand loyalty and recognition interactively. Animoto is perfect for contests and promotions that bring your customers closer to you.
Analysis
Animoto seems like a great tool so long as you're prepared to pay for it.
I tried free sample one and strangely it only gave me a disappointing 10 seconds instead of 30 seconds of viewing as advertised (so disappointed..LOL)(I'll have to check the disclaimer)
In regards to student learning and taking advantage of this great web 2.0 tool, access to Animoto may be prove difficult financially.

Depending on the school that we get assigned to in the future financially this may not be good investment for them, however if the school recognise it's potential they may incorporated it into the budget and make education purchase with the company as a lot of companies will make a education discount based on high numbers of interest.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.