Animoto


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Thanks for signing up with Animoto for Education! We appreciate you furthering your mission one video at a time.

Below is your personal promotion code so that 50 of your students and colleagues can use Animoto Plus. The promotion code is:

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 * Animoto creates picture/music videos on any topic quickly and easily. ** [|Animoto] now accepts video uploads. This means that now you can mix and mash pictures, text, audio, and video to create exciting high-quality videos.

[|Animoto for Education] offers teachers and students some benefits that normal Animoto users don't have. [|Animoto for Education] will give teachers and their students unlimited videos. Teachers will be able to establish group accounts through which they can monitor each of their student's activities. Videos created using [|Animoto for Education] can only be seen by the users of the creative account unless the teacher or student decides to embed or link to the video on another website. Get a free, unlimited teacher account and all-access pass for your students [|here]. []

Animoto is simple to use, which allows the focus of creation to be educational rather than technical.

Children under 13 can’t sign up for their own account. To use [|**Animoto for Education**] with your students you can register your students with their Kan-ed epals email account.

Students can create videos from school and continue working on them at home. The ability to download videos is outstanding…students could save their work for offline viewing too!

IDEAS FOR USE

Have students collect images of the community they live in and put them into an [|Animoto] show. Then connect with another school willing to share [|Animoto] movies about their local community. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2008/11/where-i-live-another-use-for-animoto.html

Vocabulary study tool. See a student example made by one of 7th grade teacher Jessica Powell's students [|here]. ([]) Assign each student a vocabulary word, and s/he chooses pictures from the Internet that represent the word, adds text to announce and define it, then chooses music that goes with the idea. After students finish their Animotos (no more than 30 seconds), they post the links to a page in their Google Group. Students view classmates' Animotos to study for the test. As a result of this change, vocabulary test scores have skyrocketed (98% pass rate), and students actually remember the words weeks later.

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Promote or introduce students to a new topic. Have students create [|Animoto] videos as part of a presentation assignment. http://ohushistory.wikispaces.com/

English/ Literature course. To get students excited about studying and or writing poetry have them select a poem, record an audio track of the poem being read, then use that audio track as part of an [|Animoto] poetry video. Alternatively, you may try simply having students select music and images that they feel captures the tone and message of a poem.

Current event videos - around the world in 30 seconds Teacher created problems or prompts for response by students Create commercials for an advertising unit Book trailers Character studies Artwork portfolios Use at the beginning of the day as a ‘teaser’ for what your students can look forward to learning each day or Use to teach complex concepts in history, math, science, or character education. Use [|**Animoto for Education**] for a beginning of the year get to know you activity. Students can each create an [|**Animoto**] showcasing who they are through pictures and music.

**How to get students on:** It looks like you can handle this one of two ways. First, you can distribute the teacher’s animoto promotion code to the students and have them sign up using their own email addresses and including that promotion code. Second option, you can create “dummy accounts” for students that allow them access to animoto.

Here are the responses I received (I also received help directly from Animoto.com):

“She should follow the link in the email she gets with the code. That link gives great directions. Students create there own accounts using the code but there is a time limit (about 2 weeks) to have them sign up. Once they have created their account it is good for 6 months.”

“when she gets confirmation, they'll send her a code that's used for the student side of animoto : )”

“A librarian in our district said that he just had all students use the teacher's login, and they all had access at the same time. Have not tried it myself yet, but will soon.”

“When she received the email about her account, they gave her a code that the students use to set up their own account. The code only lasts for about 60 days so she needs to get the students signed up asap.”

“Your teacher uses her classroom code and “dummy” emails set up from her email—if she is using a gmail address for her Animoto. (It’s easy to create a new gmail account and then change the Animoto account to the new  email) Dummy emails are the same as the teacher’s but with an added +1, +2, etc. Like this: if teacher’s email is BHSstudents@gmail.com, then dummy accounts are BHSstudents+1@gmail.com , BHSstudents+2@gmail.com , etc. This way all student created Animotos are delivered to the teacher’s account, and there is no need for students to use an external email account. (At out middle school, we have issues with students not having external email, so this is the system we use—handy to have all student work feed to  one place!). On the Animoto for education there is a PDF doc that can be copied for students (with classroom code inserted) that explains how to get into Animoto.”