Source: http://animoto.com
Description: Animoto is a video creation service that makes it easy to share videos using pictures, video clips, words and music. Animoto can be used for just about anything. Animoto can be used for just about anything. For instance, special occasions, greetings, everyday moments or even events in your classroom to show parents and students.
Educational Uses: A way Animoto could be used within the classroom is by creating a welcoming video introducing yourself for when parents and their child comes to open house to meet you. Another way it could be used is to have students create introduction videos at the beginning of the year. (This depends if students have computers at home) Animoto could also be used to put videos together of the class during different times of the school year and it could be put on the class website. There are several creative ways to use this amazing source within your classroom.
Content Standards: The way I would use in my classroom wouldn’t cover any of the content standards because I would mainly just create introduction videos of myself for the beginning of the year and create videos of my students at different points in the year.
Assessment: To assess your students using Animoto, it all depends on how it’s used within your classroom. If you are the one creating the videos, no assessment can be made. However, if students create videos, there can be an assessment.
Value of Animoto: I think Animoto is a great source to use in the classroom. It’s simple to use and allows you to have the chance to be creative within your classroom along with creating an introduction video of yourself for open house along with videos of the class throughout the year for parents to see.
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http://www.kaylamoylan.info/tag/reflection/
http://www.web2teachingtools.com/animoto.html