WHAT IS IT?
The free version of Animoto allows you and your students to create 30-second videos or presentations with photos, video, music, and text.
HOW TO DO IT?
Educators can apply for a free Animoto for Education account for use in the classroom, but before you do click on the Features tab to get a great overview of the program by clicking on all the links to the left. Applications are processed in the order they are received and may take a few weeks to receive an educator's code that can be used to let students over 13 sign up for an account. Students under 13 use the teacher's account. An educator account is good for six months and then just reapply. However you can sign up for the basic account and start creating videos immediately.
When you are ready to begin, click Create Video. Pick a Video Style that sets the mood for your video. Click Create Video and the click the small print: make a 30-second video for free.
Step 1: Select your images or videos, either your own, from the Animoto library, or from another website. Please remember copyright laws! You cannot upload your video to the web if you are using someone else's images or music without permission. Your best bet is to take your own videos and photos. Here you can also add text to your photos.
Step 2: Choose your music. Animoto has a large library of music to choose from (both with words and instrumental) or you can upload your own. Again if you are planning to publish to the web you should not use copyrighted music without permission.
Step 3: Finalize. When your video is composed, you will receive an email. The program sets your video to music with transitions to fit. It's just that easy!
WHAT TO DO WITH IT?
You can create videos of concepts from math functions to history lessons to play in the classroom. Many times students relate more to something visual rather than to audio alone.
Use Animoto as a free replacement for PowerPoint to create videos on biographies, field trips with your students, digital storytelling, science projects, commercial or public service announcement, simulated field trips, photo brochure of country, etc.
Although a student must be at least 13 to create an account, elementary teachers can use their accounts and students can create a video as a class guided by the teacher using the video projector to show the class the steps. Students still have input; the teacher just punches the keys.
You can share your videos via email, on a blog or website, export to YouTube or TeacherTube, or download to your computer for use in presentations.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, January 11, 2010
Photo Story 3
WHAT IS IT?
Photo Story 3 is a free program that helps you create exciting digital video stories by adding panning and zooming effects to your pictures. You can also record narration for your pictures, and add titles and background music to your story. It's simple and easy! Directions are right on the screen. This brief video from TeacherTube highlights the features of PS3.
PS3 differs from Movie Maker because you can use only stills and not movies. However, using stills requires students to focus on narration instead of "making a movie." You can use original digital photos from your files, web photos saved as .jpg to your files, or take photos of words or drawings.
HOW TO DO IT:
Download Photo Story 3. Open the program and choose 1) Begin a new story, 2) Edit a project, or 3) Play a story. Each screen gives instructions on what to do next.
Import pictures from your files and then arrange them in order on the film strip. Just click on a photo and slide it to where you want it in the film strip at the bottom or use the arrows and X at the end of the strip to move or delete. With a picture in the photo viewer, use the controls underneath the picture to edit, rotate, or adjust color. To delete picture, right click on it in the film strip.
Click Next to add text on a picture. Type the title for a picture in the text box and use the icons above the text box to position it on the picture. Click underneath each photo in the viewer to choose a different effect.
Click Next to narrate your story. Type your notes for each photo in the text box. Then simply click the red record button and record your narration for each picture. (Click the tiny microphone icon above the text box to test your computer’s sound hardware. Also customize your photo motion by clicking underneath each picture in the view box. Click on the Motion and Duration tab and the Transition tab at the top to set motions. Click Preview to see how you like it.
Click Next and add background music. Click Select Music to use audio from your own music files or the Internet. Click Create Music to customize music from the Photo Story music library to best match your story. You can pick the band, the mood, the tempo and the intensity.
The final step is converting the slide show to video format as .wmvfile to play on Windows Media Player.
This site has a tutorial with visuals.
WHAT TO DO WITH IT:
Students can use the program to create a variety of projects for the classroom. This is also a great way to teach storyboarding and planning. Have students storyboard on paper before starting Photo Story 3. It keeps them focused while working and makes better use of the time in the computer lab.
-- History and science documentaries -- Example: Scroll down and click Social Studies
-- How-to directions
-- Commercials
-- Read a picture book -- Although it is a copyright violation to take photos of pages in published books, students can re-enact a picture in a book and photograph that. Then adapt the text.
-- Illustrate/narrate an original poem or story -- Example: scroll down to Poetry Multimedia Project > Photo Story Poem: If I Were in Charge of the World. Example: Teacher and Student created.
-- Summarize a printed story
-- Stop action animation with clay, puppets, etc.
-- Audio pen pal "letters." How cool to actually hear your pen pal (especially from another country) and see what they are telling you about!
-- Assessments for science lab -- Example: Science
-- Explain scientific and math principles
-- Showing how to solve equations in math
-- Digital storytelling in Spanish -- Example: scroll down to Peliculas in Espanol
-- Showcase and comment on artwork
-- Health public service announcements
-- Book trailers -- Tutorial and Examples: Scroll to bottom of page
-- Virtual field trips with commentary. Bring the world to your students.
-- Great for elementary students -- Examples: Scroll down to examples of Photo Story 3 projects. More than one student can narrate in a digital story.
-- Teachers create classroom tutorials for absentees.
Free Picture and Audio Resources:
Library of Congress American Memory - free images, maps, and sound recordings
FreeFoto.com - free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures
Pics4learning - free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures
Public Domain Photos - free for educational use
DiscoverySchool's Clip Art Gallery
DK Clip art
FindSounds.com - search for wave, au, and aiff sound files.
Photo Story 3 is a free program that helps you create exciting digital video stories by adding panning and zooming effects to your pictures. You can also record narration for your pictures, and add titles and background music to your story. It's simple and easy! Directions are right on the screen. This brief video from TeacherTube highlights the features of PS3.
PS3 differs from Movie Maker because you can use only stills and not movies. However, using stills requires students to focus on narration instead of "making a movie." You can use original digital photos from your files, web photos saved as .jpg to your files, or take photos of words or drawings.
HOW TO DO IT:
Download Photo Story 3. Open the program and choose 1) Begin a new story, 2) Edit a project, or 3) Play a story. Each screen gives instructions on what to do next.
Import pictures from your files and then arrange them in order on the film strip. Just click on a photo and slide it to where you want it in the film strip at the bottom or use the arrows and X at the end of the strip to move or delete. With a picture in the photo viewer, use the controls underneath the picture to edit, rotate, or adjust color. To delete picture, right click on it in the film strip.
Click Next to add text on a picture. Type the title for a picture in the text box and use the icons above the text box to position it on the picture. Click underneath each photo in the viewer to choose a different effect.
Click Next to narrate your story. Type your notes for each photo in the text box. Then simply click the red record button and record your narration for each picture. (Click the tiny microphone icon above the text box to test your computer’s sound hardware. Also customize your photo motion by clicking underneath each picture in the view box. Click on the Motion and Duration tab and the Transition tab at the top to set motions. Click Preview to see how you like it.
Click Next and add background music. Click Select Music to use audio from your own music files or the Internet. Click Create Music to customize music from the Photo Story music library to best match your story. You can pick the band, the mood, the tempo and the intensity.
The final step is converting the slide show to video format as .wmvfile to play on Windows Media Player.
This site has a tutorial with visuals.
WHAT TO DO WITH IT:
Students can use the program to create a variety of projects for the classroom. This is also a great way to teach storyboarding and planning. Have students storyboard on paper before starting Photo Story 3. It keeps them focused while working and makes better use of the time in the computer lab.
-- History and science documentaries -- Example: Scroll down and click Social Studies
-- How-to directions
-- Commercials
-- Read a picture book -- Although it is a copyright violation to take photos of pages in published books, students can re-enact a picture in a book and photograph that. Then adapt the text.
-- Illustrate/narrate an original poem or story -- Example: scroll down to Poetry Multimedia Project > Photo Story Poem: If I Were in Charge of the World. Example: Teacher and Student created.
-- Summarize a printed story
-- Stop action animation with clay, puppets, etc.
-- Audio pen pal "letters." How cool to actually hear your pen pal (especially from another country) and see what they are telling you about!
-- Assessments for science lab -- Example: Science
-- Explain scientific and math principles
-- Showing how to solve equations in math
-- Digital storytelling in Spanish -- Example: scroll down to Peliculas in Espanol
-- Showcase and comment on artwork
-- Health public service announcements
-- Book trailers -- Tutorial and Examples: Scroll to bottom of page
-- Virtual field trips with commentary. Bring the world to your students.
-- Great for elementary students -- Examples: Scroll down to examples of Photo Story 3 projects. More than one student can narrate in a digital story.
-- Teachers create classroom tutorials for absentees.
Free Picture and Audio Resources:
Library of Congress American Memory - free images, maps, and sound recordings
FreeFoto.com - free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures
Pics4learning - free for educational use, copy and paste bibliography for pictures
Public Domain Photos - free for educational use
DiscoverySchool's Clip Art Gallery
DK Clip art
FindSounds.com - search for wave, au, and aiff sound files.
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