Animoto is a really cool tool that can be used in the classroom and for personal use. It was really simple to use because you simply upload the photos you want to use, select the music you would like, and pick a background, the rest Animoto does for you. The picture transitions and lighting is all done by Animoto. You can of course customize your video by using music from your own collection and organizing the photos into the order you would like them shown. You can also add text to the pictures if you like. I really enjoyed the way that Animoto takes the images that you have and makes it something personal and individualized. It is a good way to display pictures that you have in a different way.
As for using it in my classroom I think that it would be a fun way to display class pictures or student work on a class website. You could create slide shows of all your students, your classroom, class artwork and even pictures from around the school. Animoto is simple enough to use that you could put your students in charge of creating the slide shows and let them show some ownership in the classroom. It would also be a good tool to use for students to demonstrate different concepts they are learning. Instead of a book report they could use image and short text to present their book. They could also use Animoto to explain a math concept that they are learning.
Here is an example of an Animoto that I used to display my area of concentration which is English as a Second Language.
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