Via RSSAnimoto for Education - Free is good!
We’ve partnered with Animoto in the past, culminating in them giving free access to every DEN teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week. But now they’ve just gone over the top.
We’re pleased to announce a new service exclusively for teachers. Animoto for Education (http://education.animoto.com) gives teachers, grades K-12, unlimited access to the full range of Animoto’s services, both standard and premium, for free.
Can’t beat that, can you? For those of you that aren’t familiar with Animoto, it’s an incredibly easy way to make a sleek animated video out of your photo sets. The whole thing is set to music, so it feels almost like a music video. Checkout this Animoto created by the DEN in SL team featuring photos from their Halloween party!
So what does this mean for educators? For one thing, they can make as many videos as they like, and that’s the full length videos, not the short ones. You can upload your own music, add in voice overs, and import photos from Flickr, Facebook and other social sites. BUT the best part is that with Animoto for Education, you are allowed to give your students access and let them create their own videos.
One feature that they added fairly recently was offline Animotos. You could always email them out or embed them into your site, but now you can actually download them and watch them offline. If you really want to go crazy, for $5 bucks you can have them create a DVD quality video that you can download and burn, or for $20 they’ll send a DVD directly to you.
Oh yeah, and as you’ll see on the front page, it’s even endorsed by Lance Rougeux 
Animoto is one of the marvels of Web 2.0… It is a wonderful initiative and a true benefit to teachers and students.”
‘Nuff said!
August 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
This is a neat website. I learned about it at the Regional conference in Dallas. I plan to use it with my students after school starts. Cool
August 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I’ve been using Animoto with my students for the past year. We incorporated projects with Animoto on my students’ mid-term and final exam. For the final exam in Grade 10, among many parts to the final, I had the students create a trailer for The Secret Life of Bees since there was none by June for an October release.Hollywood should purchase one of the trailers a truly gifted digital native made.
Animoto is a very flexible tool and has unlimited uses and a zero learning curve. Sign up and you are good to go. Great tool!!
August 17th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I was already an ANIMOTO fanatic for my personal use. I have even become an Affiliate. I was ENTIRELY thrilled to see Animoto for Education. As a STAR Discovery Educator, seeing Lange Rougeux’s endorsement was a nice plus. I have created various Animoto vids that are all over the Web. I’m sooooo excited about my latest vid that I plan to use to introduce myself to students and parents for the new school year.
It’s important for our students to see their teacher as a person. Animoto makes Mrs. Waddell– Special Education Teacher ROCK!!
September 20th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I can’t wait to use Animoto in my classes. This is great news that they have made a version for education!
Thanks for keeping us up to date!
Deb
January 30th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
With MovieMaker and Photostory available at my school, I honestly never gave Animoto the time it deserved. Now that I have read your blog and viewed your sample videos, I understand the power of this Web 2.0 tool. Why did I wait? I am inspired to incorporate Animoto into my classroom this year. My Sport and Entertainment Management classes have a field trip to Hershey Giant Center and Hersheypark each May. I envision having groups of students take picture during the field trip and use Animoto as a way to present the field trip experience to those students unable to attend. Thanks for this tip!
February 1st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Students have really enjoyed working in Animoto and it has been easy to use. The students really like the professional looking results they can achieve in Animoto.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I think this is a great tool. Just what I’ve been looking for to motivate those students that are a little harder to motivate than the rest. It is a tool that all can use, even the girls.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
While I have not yet had the opportunity to use this in my classroom, it looks like another great tool! It seems easy to use and it’s nice to have another program to use besides Photostory and Movie Maker. I want to expose my students to the growing technologies and this is just another way that I can do so!
July 8th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Thanks for sharing the Animoto Education link. It was effortless to sign up and now I just have to get my tech supervisor to approve its use in my classroom. I can’t wait to use it.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I am excited to check out Animoto’s application for the iPhone. I recently just purchased the iPhone, and with all the apps that teachers can use on it, it justifies the money that I had spent. I just recently took pictures on my phone during a study trip, and wondered what to do with them next, besides putting them into PhotoStory. I am looking forward to learning about what Animoto can do with them!