Animoto
Link: http://www.animoto.com
Link to this example: https://animoto.com/play/t1dZT01W7TbcfrS0KwiC2g
Description: Animoto allows its users to create beautiful videos from pictures and video clips. Unfortunately, the subscription is expensive ($10 a month) and the free version of this site is very limited. Without a subscription, users are limited to a 30 second video (about 9 slides) with no formatting control. The image library that Animoto provides is insufficient. Students must resort to Google searches for photos to use, which I dislike. On the positive side, Animoto is very easy to use and comes with background music. It only takes a few clicks to upload pictures from your computer to the presentation.There are some great templates available on the free version. At the beginning of the year, students created Bio Poems in class. I took a Bio Poem created by a student and turned it into a video that looks beautifully done. Unfortunately, I had to cut the poem short because there was not enough room in the 30 second video to put all of the lines. Completing this project with students would be time consuming if they had to find or take their own pictures. However, students would be able to quickly recreate their poems if the pictures they needed were already downloaded to the computer. Overall, I feel that there is not much teachers can do with the free version of Animoto. Thirty seconds is just not enough time.
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