Animoto

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Using the Web 2.0 tool was fun but a little frustrating at the same time. I cannot say that it is one of my favorite Web 2.0 tools. I think there are many different ways to use Animoto in the classroom but you have to be willing to put a lot of time and some money into it. The basic version of Animoto can be good for little presentations that will serve as an introduction to a topic. With the basic version you are very limited in what you can put in your video and the video itself can only be 30 seconds. Animoto is not an extremely hard tool to use so that made it easy to figure out how to use. The website basically gives you a step by step when you are creating a video so that is a very good thing, if you are trying to explain how to use the tool to the class. I do not think that some of the selections that they give you are very classroom related especially when it comes to the song choice. If you are wanting a song in your video there is a very limited selection of songs, and it does not allow you to pick which section of the song you would like to use. Throughout my experience with Animoto I learned how to use the tool and the different ways that it can possibly be used in the classroom. I think that next time I use this tool I will have my own pictures ready to use and try to find my own music as well. One way that I would like to use this tool in the classroom would be to make an introduction video about myself and about what to expect in the class. Overall, Animoto is not one of my favorite tools but I know I will find a way to incorporate it in my classroom.