Colleen Monahan Dobbs Heritage High School

 Cancer Awareness Day Video (Heritage SCA): y3g

 Animoto.com  Web-based video animation tool  Choose music/theme… input pictures and short phrases… program animates for you!  Various pricing plans…  Teacher Decision…  Have students create their own “lite” accounts?  Sign-up students under your education account?

 Teacher Tool:  Videos for School Announcements  Videos for Classroom  Teaser to a book  Introduction to a new unit  Student Tool:  Presentation Tool  Fulfill Multimedia Strand of SOL standards  SAMPLE = Amendment Research – Multimedia Presentation

Click to change song Click to add text to pic slide Click & drag to move Use to add more slides

Click to exit

Check video length Save to edit later Tools for advanced version Click here if you’re ready to preview and/or publish

“Produce” if you like it; “Continue editing” if you don’t! Add a title

Students can video to teacher Educator account allows you to save as mp4

 Sample Video (Instructor/Dobbs): LGBqQ  Sample Video #1 (Student – Amendment Project): Kq09hw  Sample Video #2 (Student – Amendment Project): kiDBxuuA

 Introduce Animoto to students  Remind students to save pictures to a folder  Provide students a brainstorming template  Encourage students to be thoughtful about the images/words they choose  Specify a minimum and maximum number of slides  Be sure to tell students how they will “share” video  Require that students use music already in Animoto program or use “lyric-free” music  Student may create video in connection with a speech, essay, etc as part of a larger assignment.