Animoto: Education April 28, 2008
Posted by anne marie in SMART Board, Websites.Tags: Animoto, SMARTBoard, video
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Fun, creative, motivating, exciting…. all words that help describe Animoto: Education. I learned about Animoto Friday (Chris shared an Animoto video on his Blog that he created of his trip to the zoo with his daughter) so I ventured to the Animoto site to check it out and learned about Animoto: Education. I immediately emailed Rebecca Brookes at Animoto: Education to receive a FREE All Access Code for my classroom (which arrived that same day) and voila… today at school we were having FUN making an Animoto video on parallel and intersecting lines (students ventured around the school with the digital camera to take pix). It was a great collaborative project that was overflowing with LEARNING!! Exactly what makes a teacher smile! I should also note that students’ Animoto videos can be downloaded to your desktop which is a huge plus since then you’re not dependent on an internet connection and will not experience blocking issues that some school districts encounter. I noticed that Jim Hollis also spoke about Animoto: Education today in his Blog– great minds think alike!! Guess that truly means Animoto: Education gets two thumbs up!! And as Jim mentioned the SMARTBoard is the perfect tool to both display and create the videos.
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When I did a search on Animoto in my RSS reader, I saw that Danny Nicholson, Vicki Davis, Jeff Utecht, and Ewan McIntosh have all recently mentioned Animoto! This is definitely the way to spread the word!
Cheers!
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Jim
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Thanks for mentioning my name. Indeed, animoto is becoming very popular on educational blogs..loved your animoto!
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