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Visually Impressive Learning
Using Animoto in the classroom is a way to show the real world to students in a visually stunning manner. The ability to add music that helps draw attention as well as helps the author to illustrate his meaning. In the perfect case scenario the music you find to add in your video, retells your visual story in its tone and lyrics. The Animoto unlimited video length truly allows the author to tell all of their story in its detail. If in fact, you must use the free portion of the site, and are limited to the half a minute is still enough to break up your subject and tel a story.
Summarizing is an ideal goal for a project for using Animoto. Users must choose short lines of text because you only have a limited number of characters you can present in each slide. By limiting the text, the author is forced to really use images that help illustrate their point. When summarizing their ideas using Animoto they will be forced to be succinct in their creation of the video.
I have used Animoto for years and have found that it is ideal for introducing a concept using images and very few text additions. It is a way to build schema that students can connect to and build meaning in their own ways. On the reverse side of that, I like to also, review and close a subject with a video (in some cases I use the same Animoto as I did to begin the introduction) and change the conversation about it. When I have started the lesson with a video and let students make their own meanings from the images, and then I have closed that lesson with the same exact video, students have found their schema has changed. As an educator you must use this strategy wsely and make sure you hold a discussion at the end about how student's schema has changed. If you don't hold the conversation students may not always become aware of their change in thinking. Being aware that your schema has changed, ad thinking about your knew understanding are a critical piece of metacognition through this process.
Summarizing is an ideal goal for a project for using Animoto. Users must choose short lines of text because you only have a limited number of characters you can present in each slide. By limiting the text, the author is forced to really use images that help illustrate their point. When summarizing their ideas using Animoto they will be forced to be succinct in their creation of the video.
I have used Animoto for years and have found that it is ideal for introducing a concept using images and very few text additions. It is a way to build schema that students can connect to and build meaning in their own ways. On the reverse side of that, I like to also, review and close a subject with a video (in some cases I use the same Animoto as I did to begin the introduction) and change the conversation about it. When I have started the lesson with a video and let students make their own meanings from the images, and then I have closed that lesson with the same exact video, students have found their schema has changed. As an educator you must use this strategy wsely and make sure you hold a discussion at the end about how student's schema has changed. If you don't hold the conversation students may not always become aware of their change in thinking. Being aware that your schema has changed, ad thinking about your knew understanding are a critical piece of metacognition through this process.