How convenient! Recently, I have tried to make a photo
story on the website. Actually, at first, I felt overwhelming before trying it. There are a lot of photo story tools and I chose ‘Animoto’ to create a story because, simply, I liked the name.
According to Wikipedia, Animoto is a cloud-based video
creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into
video slideshows. Moreover, this sophisticated tool can be used in education
for countless projects and presentations. Students can use the tool to present
a concept. A teacher could use the video not only as an introduction to a
lesson but also as the tool to teach a concept or the tool itself to other
educators. I think this tool is very elaborate but user-friendly. It takes
minutes to create the video. I just simply add pictures, text, and the music.
That’s all!
In my future class, I will definitely
introduce students this nice tool. As I crated, I will assign some contexts to students and ask them to create a short clip related to
the topic. For example, if a student is assigned a travel agency, the student might create a clip to introduce some places for
vacation or to introduce a travel schedule targeting clients or tour members. In my video, I introduced my school
with some features targeting new students. Finally, they will be asked to present
their video with explaining details such as target audiences, reasons, purpose, and so on. Also they will submit an essay to write the
information of one peer’s presentation clearly. Through these two outputs, I
can assess how appropriate they produce and convey the information based on the assigned topic as well as their clear understanding about their peer’s presentation. ▶ Performance indicator – ESL.E.2-4.1.1.7:
Students present information clearly in a
variety of oral and written forms for different audiences and purposes related
to all academic content areas.
▶ Link of my photo story : My School, My UB
※ Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animoto
You created a great intro to UB. I really enjoyed it.
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