Educational Value of Animoto

Renaissance

Animoto is such a neat tool to have found and be able to use as an educator! This was my first experience creating a short video, but in my imagination the possibilities for its use are immense.  For example, having created this, I know now that I can include images specifically for my class to know and/or study. This would be an awesome way to include technology in an assessment. I can see playing this and having students identify 4/10 of the images and write about them (just as one example).  I can also see using this as a teaching tool and pausing for students to take notes. Anything that gets me out of the dreaded powerpoint rut is always a welcome and useful addition to my classroom. I also particularly like that the scope of the video can be minuscule or wide, depending on how much depth versus breadth you are looking to cover in a single class and/or unit.