Basically you upload videos -- and it makes it easy to grab from other online accounts like Facebook and Picasa -- pick a song from the ones they have on file or upload your own mp3, add some text and tell it to make your video. A 30-second video took less than 5 minutes to render.
Advantages:
- Another alternative to the traditional slideshow or handout
- Very easy to create -- instructions are clear
- Easy to embed in Blackboard, YouTube or Facebook
- A different kind of assignment option for more video-savvy students
- Free version is available -- although limited.
- Could record your own sound using Audacity or Garage Band and upload your spoken words or music to site.
- No templates, so each video is unique.
- Monthly or annual fee to create videos longer than 30 seconds and to download videos to your computer.
- Text space is very limited -- do not expect to replicate a 40-slide lecture here.
"Animoto." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Oct. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.
Further information:
"Animoto." Teachinghistory.org. U.S. Department of Education, 2010. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.
"Animoto, a Web 2.0 Tool Supporting 21st Century Learning Skills." Web 2.0 Teaching Tools. N.p., 2009. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.
"Web 2.0 Tools - New Possibilities for Teaching and Learning: Animoto." Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). Purdue University, 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2011.
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