This document discusses how educators can use Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professional videos, to engage 21st century learners. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus educator account to create stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text. The educator accounts allow teachers to add 50 student accounts and create 10-minute videos for free. The document provides directions for getting started with Animoto and lists sources for copyright-free images. It also includes a sample timeline for creating digital book trailers with students using Animoto over 5 days.

1. Engaging 21st Century Learners
Through The Use Of Animoto
A Presentation By
Mary Wollmering
wollmeringm@holy-spirit.org

2. What is Animoto?
 Animoto is a Web application that automatically
generates professionally produced videos.
 Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-
selected images and music.
 Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music
video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

3. Animoto Educator Accounts
 Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account
for use in the classroom. Its powerful features can be
used to create stunning presentations incorporating
images, video clips, music and text. Educator Accounts
are valid for six months. Upon expiration you may apply
for another account.

4. Connect To Animoto at this url
http://animoto.com/education/classroom

10. Educator Benefits
 Applying for an Educator’s Account allows you to add
50 students under you.
 Free Accounts allow you to create 30 second videos.
 By applying for the Educator’s Account you are able to
create 10 minute videos for free.

11. Check out this Animoto Book Trailer

12. Animoto has an app for the
iPad

13. Animoto also has an Android
app on Google Play

14. Getting Started
 Create a gmail account for yourself @ google.com
 Use this gmail account to sign up for an Animoto
Account
 Follow their easy to understand instructions to add
student accounts
 You are now ready to create one of a kind digital
projects
 Engage your students as they learn to
create, collaborate, and critically think

15. Sources For Copyright Free
Images
 Freerange
 Stockvault
 FreeDigitalPhotos
 Flickr
 Pics4Learning
 Animoto has its own copyright free image library that is
also useful

16. Here is a timeline to use creating
Digital Book Trailers using Animoto
http://dborck.wordpress.com/?s=digital+book+trailers
 30 minute session the week before project – talk about
project, begin thinking about book choice, show sample
trailers, show rubric Day One – work on Storyboard Day
Two – begin searching online for images, review copyright
and source citing, show how to save images to network
folders, and begin creating bibliography Day Three - upload
pictures into Animoto, arrange storyboard, add caption text
to slides and edit the text, add separate text slides Day
Four – choose and add music, add credit slide
 Day Five – present movies, peer evaluations, self
evaluations
 Created by Denise Borck, William James Middle School
Media Specialist Modified by Mary Wollmering 5/6/13

17. Peer Evaluation Rubric

18. Here Is A Link To An Example Of A
Self-Assessment Form
http://bit.ly/Yt4Plw

19. Credits
 http://animoto.com/education/classroom
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animoto-video-
maker/id459248037?mt=8
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anim
oto.android.videoslideshow&hl=en
 http://animoto.com/blog/education/education-videos/
 http://dborck.wordpress.com/?s=digital+book+trailers