T.Cassidy – Kirk Hallam Community Technology College.

With a few adaptations and updates by Alan Parkinson to include the new features added

recently (in red)

Animoto is a web application that allows you to produce media style video presentations in minutes.

It has several advantages-

• Limited ICT skills are needed.

• The application edits your videos.

• No need to worry about finding a suitable funky track or podsafe music.

• No two videos are the same.

• The outcome is polished and professional.

•NEW: Images are matched to the music, and can be speeded up or slowed down to suit the ‘mood’

Some uses for Animoto in the school and classroom.

• Starters and plenaries.

• Connecting the learning. (Accelerated learning cycle.)

• Introducing a concept, place, theme etc...

• Stimulus for creative writing.

• Student produced projects.

• Memento of visits or events.

• Advertisements for school clubs.

• What uses could you put it to ?

• How could it be used for assessment ?

•Children under the age of 13 aren’t allowed to register on the site, due to US Laws on data protection.

•Advertisements are age specifically targeted to users.

•Animoto suggests that educators set-up user accounts on behalf of students and monitor them.

•With normal accounts (no downloads and limited to 30 seconds of video) we won’t have access to full videos and the ability to download them. If staff think this web application is useful, schools could liaise on purchasing full credits.

•Could be blocked in some schools, but network managers could arrange for unblocking.

•It takes 13-15 images to produce 30 seconds of video.

•Large videos take longer to render, but should still be available within an hour.

1 First go to the website www.animoto.com

Click on sign up.

2 Fill in the registration details

Enter your e-mail and choose

password etc.

3Click on the Get started.

Choose a short or full length video.

You will need to have an educator account, or update for $25 (about £17) for a

year

Your school might pay for this.

4 Choose upload. (If you have an online photo

account, such as Flickr, you can choose retrieve: again Flickr is likely to be blocked in schools.)

Click on upload now.

Here’s the screen to select which FLICKR folder to use for the images.Choose the folder and click RETRIEVE

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To choose a picture from your folder

click on it and click open.

You can choose multiple files by pressing

shift or control when choosing

files.

Alternatively, use the add more

button.

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Click on continue.

Using these buttons you can add more, rotate or delete

images.

This button allows you to put a special emphasis on any of your images, they are highlighted on the

screen.

New Features: ADD TEXTThis is added as an overlay to the image in an aesthetically pleasing way....

Click the Add Text button, and choose where to place the text.The text will appear as either a title, or a smaller piece of text lower down the page, depending on your choice. Text can be edited.

The text ‘appears’ over the image that follows the ‘T’ box

Time to choose a

funky tune ( you could upload your own MP3).

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Choose a genre.

Choose a song and press select. New music is added

from time to time.

New Features1.Choose an image for the video cover screen, rather than a plain green screen. Scroll through images used in the video.2.Change the speed at which the images play: fast, slow or normal speed.

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Finally, give your video a title and

description.

Click generate.

Choose save and continue.

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Animoto will now make your video.

When this screen appears you can

play your creation.

10What are these buttons for?

Remix your video

Email to friends

Download in Quicktime format

Upload to You Tube

Upgrade to DVD (paid feature)

Embed in a blog

New iPhone option

Videos can now be sent to your iPhone

There is also an app that can be downloaded for free to enable you to make videos on your iPhone

Click this link to get the free application from the iPhone app store...

11Tony’s Video

You can download your video in Quicktime to play stand alone. If you fancied inserting it into a

PowerPoint you would need to convert the video to an mpeg, avi or wmv file. www.zamzar.com will allow you

to do this.

Get Animoto for FREEEducator accounts