Jennifer Kight Script for Instructional Product LIB 801 Hello!

This is a presentation on Animoto by Jennifer Kight, Librarian at Jacket High School. How often does this happen in your classroom? Would you like to help students become enthusiastic? Express their understanding of the content? Promote creativity? Increase student engagement? And help them make connections to real life? If so try creating videos in the classroom. Creating videos allows students to practice the following: Cooperative learning skills, technology skills, problem solving skills, and speaking, writing, reading, listening, and math skills. So, how can one do this? Is there a web application that can help? Yes and its Animoto! Animoto is one of the marvels of Web 2.0. It is a wonderful initiative and true benefit to teachers and students. According to Discovery Education Engaging students with learning opportunities that use new communication technologies, like Animoto, affirms the place of students ever-evolving, modern, real-world online communication technologies in the classroom and provides teacher-librarians with profuse opportunities to explore and teach students foundational critical thinking skills. Animotoits easy to use, its easy to edit your work, it combines videos and photos, it contains a music library, its easily shared, and it has apps for your iPhone and iPad. www.animoto.com Its fun, its engaging, its creative, the students do the work and it involves the whole class. Animoto offers many styles for your video ranging from abstract to holiday. Add text, add pictures, add videos, add music and youre done. So, do you know how to navigate the web? To sign up for a program? To upload pictures onto the computer? If so, go to www.animoto.com and create your free account now and get started. So, how do we begin?

Jennifer Kight Script for Instructional Product LIB 801 First, go to www.animoto.com and sign in or sign up for a free account Once here, choose from the three options. The lite version is free and it offers unlimited 30 second videos. The plus version is $2.50 a month. Provides unlimited full length videos, over 600 music tracks, and HD upgrades for purchase. The pro version is $20.75 a month. It offers unlimited full length videos, free HD upgrades, over 1,000 songs, and free video downloads. You can sign up using your facebook account or use your own email address. Provide your first name and last name, create your password, confirm your password, and click sign up. Once youve created your free account, you can request an educators account which upgrades your account for free. All it takes is a valid school email address. Fill in the yellow highlighted areas which are: your name, your school, the grades you teach, the subjects you teach, your school email address. You can fill in the class website if you have one and click sign up. Once your account is made, you can start creating your videos. First, choose a style. Then click create video. Next, decide if you want to change styles, add music, add pictures, videos, or text. For now, we will go in order of the tabs on the left hand side. So lets add music first. Choose your type of music or view all the songs from the full music library option. Select a song from the preloaded library. Then select add song in the bottom right hand corner. Click on the square with the sun to edit your song choice. From here you can pick when to start the song and how fast the images will go, but be sure to click save when youre finished. Next, on the left click add pics and vids from here choose where you would like to upload pictures and videos. You can choose from facebook, instagram, or your own picture and video library. Dont worry your pictures may be rearranged once they are uploaded. Your last option is to add text Adding text creates a new picture in your video. Type in your header and type in your text and click save.

Jennifer Kight Script for Instructional Product LIB 801 Once youve selected the style, the music, added pictures and text, your video will be ready to preview. Click the green preview video button. As you wait to preview the video, you can title it, you can add a date, and a description. If you like the preview, you may produce it. If you want to change it, you can edit it again. In the bottom right hand corner, choose produce or continue editing. Click on the link to go to my math example I created on Animoto. Ideas for your classroom use. Use it for digital storytelling, introduction to a unit, introduction to math concepts, biographies, timelines, and even science experiments. Your common core standards that relate to Animoto are as follows: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7 Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form and translate information expressed visually or mathematically into words. Next: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes. Next: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.2d Use precise language, domain-specific vocabulary and techniques such as metaphor, simile, and analogy to manage the complexity of the topic; convey a knowledgeable stance in a style that responds to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers. And last is CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. And to connect to the library are the American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st century learner. 2.1.3: Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations. 2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information 2.3.1 Connect understanding to the real world. And last is 3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic real-world contexts.

Jennifer Kight Script for Instructional Product LIB 801 The cognitive objective: The adult learner will be able to identify key features of Animoto. The cognitive assessment: Adult learners will answer 5 yes/no questions about Animoto. The key feature questions: One Pictures can be uploaded from facebook? Yes or no Two Animoto provides a song library? Yes or no Three pictures cannot be moved once uploaded? Yes or no Four videos may be shared? Yes or no And five educators may sign up for a free upgrade? Yes or no The affective objective: the adult learner will discuss ways to use Animoto in the classroom and will demonstrate a positive attitude. The affective assessment: Adult learners will list at least two ways they plan to incorporate Animoto into their classroom. Using a check list, they will answer yes/no to questions about their experience with Animoto. Psychomotor Objective: The adult learner will be able to navigate and use Animoto to create their own video. And the assessment: Adult learners will create a video using Animoto. The video should contain at least 8 pictures, a text slide, and music. Now its your turn. Create a video in animoto that relates your content to real life. Heres a rubric to consider for your final product. Have you related your content to real life? Do you have at least 8 photos/videos in your Animoto video? Did you include text within your video? And last, did you include music with your video? Thanks for watching my presentation. Please visit http://kightlibrary.wordpress.com and let me know what you think. Leave me a comment about the program. Thanks! References:

Jennifer Kight Script for Instructional Product LIB 801 I used Animoto. Retrieved from http://www.animoto.com/education And I, also, used the article Mashing Literacies from Teacher Librarian by K. McPherson