Animoto is an easy tool to learn to use, you just need to take the time to think about the curriculum you teach to see how you can use Animoto videos to engage students in learning or create ways for students to use Animoto as an assessment tool for them to demonstrate learning. There are many sites providing educator's examples of how to set up and use Animoto. I found this simple to follow, "how to" video, that provides step-by-step instructions for signing up.
In school I work as a small group reading teacher that focuses on the explicit needs of the students. At first I was stumped as to how I could incorporate Animoto into my lessons. Then through investigating previously created videos I realized an Animoto could be created for just about anything. One video displayed the sight words that a kindergarten class created using pretzels. The video could be sent to families or used in class to build sight word fluency. To me, it seems like Animoto is a great tool to build home-school connections. Video links could be sent home so that parents can see what their child is working on at school or the video can introduce the new words students are learning that week, so that parents can be more involved in their child's school experience.
What a great opportunity for students to share their learning! Students can create Animoto videos to demonstrate learning through pictures and words. I have seen student Animoto's that are responding to a set of reading comprehension questions and ones that are culminating projects to a unit. This would be perfect for fourth grade students to use to demonstrate what they learned through their Social Studies unit on states. It could be similar to this grade 6 student's video on Northern Africa. Using Animoto as an assessment tool supports the NETS for students, standard 1: Creativity and Innovation.
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