Today I tried out another presentation tool called Animoto. This tool turns pictures into a sort of video presentation. It appears to be free, but I believe that you can only create a 30 second video and then it will cost money. I will have to get back to you on that.
Anyway, I signed up using my email and a password then I waited for an email. It came right away! I had a look at the demos and the tutorial and started immediately. This is definitely the easiest tool that I have used by far. It tells you what to do every step of the way.
First you import pictures from your computer (or you can download from the internet). Then you can scramble them up or put them in a particular order. You can showcase a certain photo that you the show to pause on.
Next, you can add text to the frames if you want. I just added a couple of things.
Finally you pick the music to go along with it. I was not totally in love with the music. I had my daughter help me pick the music. We didn’t know any of the artists in the top 40 songs. It said you could download you own, but I didn’t try that option.
Once you have the photos, text and music Animoto puts the media together and creates a one of a kind cute little video. Apparently you can share with Facebook , YouTube and other social media but I didn’t figure out how to do that. I couldn’t find the embed code so I chose to save the link. Students will love this presentation tool. It is so simple, but amazingly engaging. I wonder how many videos you can create for free…something else to investigate. At this point though I give it a one thumb up!
Here is the link to what I created. These are photos of the library at my school and a few pics of the kids.
http://animoto.com/play/m9ro0YRghBosNQ10YefNOw?utm_content=challenger
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