ANIMOTO LESSON PLANS
The following lessons comes from: http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/hello-animoto--Visit the site for video demonstrations.
Create Novel Movie Trailers!
ii. Characters
iii. Themes
iv. Symbols
v. Setting
Create Novel Movie Trailers!
- Animoto utilizes “MTV Style” editing to show brief clips of a specific subject or theme set to music. This is perfect for gleaning the main elements of a novel or chapter you just read in class.
- At the end of the school year when you are reviewing for finals or mid terms (depending on your schools academic calendar) have the students make a brief Animoto video that they can use to
- Reflect on what the novel or unit was about
- Pick out the important elements of the chapter or novel
ii. Characters
iii. Themes
iv. Symbols
v. Setting
- Tell them that their audience will be next year’s incoming class and they have to convince them that this novel will be an amazing read! Just like film directors would do with a summer blockbuster.
- If you want to stretch out this assignment and go a step further, visit http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/ and you can create movie posters for the novels.
- As a teacher, you can show these videos on the first day of class next year. You can print out and hang up the movie posters of the novels on your bulletin board.
Creating Animoto Videos in other Disciplines!
ii. One Vocabulary word
ii. The part of speech
iii. The definition
iv. At least two sentences
v. An image relating to the word
ii. New Countries covered
iii. Bill of Rights
iv. American Wars
ii. Washing your hands
iii. Brushing your teeth
- For Vocabulary words
- At the beginning of the Vocabulary unit have go over the list of words with your students as you normally would at the beginning of a unit.
- Have students define words, provide proper parts of speech and provide sentences (maybe 3 to 5).
- Students are arranged in groups of two. Each group will be given the following:
ii. One Vocabulary word
- Students will have to create an Animoto video for the word they are given. Students must include in their video:
ii. The part of speech
iii. The definition
iv. At least two sentences
v. An image relating to the word
- Once the videos are created, the teacher will present the videos to the class and will serve as a brief review for the upcoming Vocabulary quiz.
- This would be a flashy way to introduce a new formula or problem. You can take the above examples and apply it to your discipline.
- For Math teachers
- In history class you could have students research an Amendment and make an Animoto video displaying the main points of that Amendment and also find images that represent that Amendment. This could work for numerous historical units:
- For History teachers the possibilities are endless.
ii. New Countries covered
iii. Bill of Rights
iv. American Wars
- For Special Education and Life skills Teachers
- This would be a great way to show your kids how to perform a basic task such as raising your hand
- Students, with assistance, can find images of kids raising their hand in class. Students and teacher can assemble the images and even take a photo of the child performing the task, and compile them into an Animoto video.
- This could work with various life skills
ii. Washing your hands
iii. Brushing your teeth