Animoto in the Classroom

This past week I was fortunate to be able to share the Web 2.0 tool Animoto with a staff member. Together, we collaborated and created an Animoto presentation that was used to introduce the novel Forbidden City by William Bell.  The teacher and I worked together to select images and text that we felt would display the information necessary to not only provide the students with a general sense of time and place of this particular novel but also as a hook to capture student’s interest. 

The Animoto allowed for professional discussion and collaboration prior to the commencement of the novel study.  One aspect of the tool that we found challenging was the limited space for text on each slide and although at times we struggled with word choice, we were pleased with the final result.

Students were impressed by the presentation and excited to learn that they would also have the opportunity to use this tool during the novel study.