I signed up for Animoto Lite to
create free 30 second videos. Animoto is
designed to create cool video
pieces from photos, video clips and music. My first thought was to use Animoto to introduce a specific
genre of reading (i.e. Classic Tales). An introduction to a reading genre using an Animoto
video full of pictures of story characters is bound to get students excited
about upcoming reading.
Make a video of your own at Animoto.
I visited the Wordle
website to learn how to generate a word cloud from text. The clouds highlight words
that appear more frequently in the source text. The word cloud can be printed out
and used before, during, and after reading to highlight specific word families
(i.e. past tense
words ending in "ed").
Animoto is just so much fun! And it's easy enough that kids would enjoy making a video, too.
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