Animoto Movies in Your ClassroomPresented byYvonne Richard & Katherine SheaTeachers at King George Elementary SchoolKing George Countywww.mrsrichard.orghttp://mrskshea.blogspot.com/

Animoto

• Do you want to make an amazing movie in 5 minutes or less?

• Do you want to showcase student work?

• Does making movies scare you?

• Can you take still photograph?

Did you answer YES?

• Sign up with your home or school email

• You can also link your account to Facebook

•Download the Apple App here

•Download the Android App here

Memberships

• The type of account you created will determine the choices of styles available

• Free account = fewer choices, shorter movies

• Educator account = more choices, longer movies, 6 month membership (might take a day to be approved)

• Plus account (what I have) = more choices, longer movies, 12 month membership (30.00/year)

My First Animoto Movie

Make a Movie in 3 steps•Upload photos or video•Customize style and music•Share and enjoy!

Taking Great Photographs• Camera

• Cell phone

• iPod touch

• Kid Pix

• Scanner or Copier

• Hover Cam or other document camera◦ Put items to be photographed on a solid color background

◦ Create an anti-glare tent with construction paper

◦ Other lighting ideas can be found here

Creating a Movie Activity• Take about 10 photos of people sitting near you

• Create a folder on the desktop to copy your pictures from your device to the desktop

• Sign-in to Animoto

Making the Movie• Click the Create button on the top right corner of the screen

Choose a Style

• Brilliance and Animoto Original are both great choices for most classroom movies

• Choose a background style to highlight the photos

Click Create Video

Upload Pictures and Video• Click the box to upload

and select where you want to upload pictures from◦Desktop folder◦Facebook◦ Instagram◦Many other choices

• This is the part that takes the longest

Changing Music• Click on the bar above the pictures with the song title to

change the music in your video

◦ Genre

◦ Length of song

• Music can also be uploaded from your computer (beware of copyright laws)

Pacing• Click on the settings gear on the right side

• In the pop up window, adjust the speed to fit your pictures

• This can cause some pictures to be bumped from your video

Should I add text?• Movie title

• Names of people in the pictures

• Short captions about a photo

• The name of the person creating the movie

Preview• Always click preview

• Check for:◦Spelling errors

◦Image direction

◦Image speed

Pre-view Pop-up Window

Add a Title, Description,

and Date

Skip & ProduceOr Continue Editing

You Did It!

• You just made your first Animoto movie

• It is amazing, you want more….

• You are thinking of those vacation pictures you took last month……

• Oh and those really great pictures from your class that you took at the end of the year picnic….

• Try it out at home and you will soon be just as addicted as I am

Adding Animoto to Power Point•MAC ~ download and insert into Power Point•PC ~ convert from MP4 to WMV using Zamzar

Movie Ideas?• Book projects

• Grandparent Day

• Mother’s Day

• Father’s Day

• Field Trips

• Class celebrations

• Tribute Movies