Earlier this week, reading Ewan McIntosh‘s blog, I discovered that Animoto has introduced an Education Programme due to the success that this Web 2.0 application has had amongst educators. This means that you can register with Animoto as en educator and they will provide you with a Classroom Code so that you and your pupils can use Animoto for free to produce educational videos.
Emulating Jess McCulloch and her Interactive Whiteboard Challenge, I would like to introduce The Animoto Challenge. I have already used Animoto to produce wonderful video-slideshows of some of my school trips but, aside from looking absolutely fantastic at teacher-parent meetings or options evenings, they have have not had any intrinsic educational value.
I would like to change that and I would like my pupils to start using Animoto as well. So, what a better way to explore the possibilities of Animoto than to share experiences and different ways to exploit this wonderful tool?
These are some rough guidelines:
- The video should be created by you or your pupils
- It could be used to introduce a new topic or as a plenary
- It could be produced by your pupils as a summative exercise
- Videos should be under three minutes long (you can still produce 30 second long videos for free, without registering as an educator)
- Link back to this post so we can all share ideas
This post is tagged animoto, Media, multimedia, Social media, useful websites, web 2.0
