Animoto In My Classroom

After registering for the free membership to Animoto and playing around with the tool, I believe it could be used as a very fun tool for students and teachers in the classroom. My first idea was that it would be a really cool way for a teacher to introduce herself/himself to the students and give them insight regarding who their teacher is as a person. This idea could be continued into the school year as part of a star student activity in which one student would be selected each week to create a video about themselves and share with their classmates. Animoto can also be linked to the curriculum in various ways. First, teachers could use the tool to create short videos which would serve as lesson introductions and capture students attention. It could also be used in digital storytelling, serve as a replacement for boring old PowerPoint presentations, and a variety of other ways. In fact, Andrew Marcinek had some very cool ideas for using Animoto in different subject areas in his post Hello Animoto in the Classroom 2.0 forum. All in all, I really love using this tool and I believe it could serve a variety of purposes in an educational setting.