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**Day 3 **
Teachers teaching students in grades 7-12
 * Presenter: Beena Raichura **
 * Title of the workshop: Using Animoto create a video for Social Studies **
 * Subject: Social Studies **
 * Audience: **

**Prerequisite skills: **
Knowledge about Animoto, Voki and Flickr

**Content **
Animoto is a web-based tool that allows teachers to combine graphics, photos and video clips to introduce new topics, create activators, and “bring lessons to life.” Animoto is free, or teachers can upgrade for a fee to receive more features. Animoto provides an array of tools for creating videos in your classroom. Animoto automatically analyzes video clips, photos and music and orchestrates a custom video leaving you free to focus on the narrative and content of the videos. Animoto makes it easy to share your video as an email, on a website or blog, as a YouTube video or in a presentation from your own computer. It also allows you to add messages and quotes to the pictures in the video. This makes the video more personal for the students you are teaching and helps them to make connections.

It can be used to make videos to teach or present any subject but is especially useful in social studies to create a video about a country, or to demonstrate patterns of settlements in ancient and modern worlds, for citizenship and governance topics etc. Social studies is a vast subject with many sub topics presenting some of them via an Animoto video presentation would help improve learning.

The first step in using Animoto is to sign up for a free account. To do this by go to the website: [|http://animoto.com/education] to apply for a free 6 month educator account. Complete the application(s) and click on “Submit Application”. Once you have your account, you can sign up and start using Animoto.

**<span style="font-family: 'Sereif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Objectives for this lesson **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Sereif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Participants will learn and share effective and creative ways to use Animoto videos in the classroom
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Sereif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Participants will learn ways to teach students to use Animoto in the classroom
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Sereif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Participants will incorporate using Animoto videos in the classroom for special needs students, students with speaking difficulties and ESOL students to provide them a another way to express themselves.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Sereif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Participants will learn the strengths and drawbacks of using Animoto in the classroom.

**<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">How will you teach the lesson? **
<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Having performed a needs assessment, I found that participants of this class want to know how to incorporate Animoto in their classroom to teach. Knowing that the participants have the knowledge of Animoto I will provide them with suggestions to incorporate Animoto in the classroom in Social Studies and other subject areas. I will present the strengths and weaknesses of Animoto using a voki. The aim of doing that is to be to demonstrate to the the participants a new form of technology the "//<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif';">Voki //" and how it can be used effectively in the classroom to enhance learning.

media type="custom" key="13936946" This Voki describes the strengths of Animoto

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<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">This Animoto video shows the various different ways in which Animoto can be used in the classroom
 * <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suggestions of ways to use Animoto videos in the classroom **

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**<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Animoto for the classroom **
<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">**Animoto can be used in the classroom to**:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Post class videos of field trips, science experiments, group projects in social studies or science on YouTube and the classroom website
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Email and share videos of the end of school year, end of semester class parties with parents
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Down load on the computer to use with other presentations
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Make a video to add to a lesson to make it multimedia enriched
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Videos created on Animoto can be used with Ms Word, PowerPoint, Edline, Flipchart and Inspiration to enhance a lesson.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students can use Animoto to make video to present their projects.
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Create a 30 second commercial or public service announcement about…
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Summarize the main idea of this passage in images and words in 30 seconds or less
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Create video flashcards for vocabulary keywords in social studies ( e.g. governance, citizenship etc)
 * 10) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Great for brainstorming and story boarding
 * 11) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Create a simulated field trip
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Have students create a 30 second video about themselves at the beginning of the year so that everyone can get to know each other.
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Introduce new learning concepts to students.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Create a short photo brochure of a country you are studying.
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Have students create 30 second news briefs about historical news events, natural disasters, or any event that ties into curriculum
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Have students collect pictures around a certain topic, create Animoto, swap Animotos, then use for brainstorming a creative writing piece.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students can create short videos showing the steps they took in completing a Science Project. This would highlight the Scientific Process and they can share their work with the other students in the classroom. (Whisper W.)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Suggestions to use Animoto in classroom in different subject areas **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">In Language Arts **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">For vocabulary words **

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">At the beginning of the vocabulary unit 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. Next arrange students in groups of two to three students. Provide each group with a digital camera and a vocabulary word from the list. Have students create an Animoto video for the word they are given.

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">In their video, students mus <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">t include: <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The word <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The part of speech <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The definition <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">At least two sentences <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">An image relating to the word

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Once the videos are created, the teacher can present the videos to the class. This can serve as a brief review for the upcoming vocabulary quiz.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">In History and Social Studies **

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">You could have students research an Amendment and make an Animoto video displaying the main points of that Amendment. Students can also do find images that represent that Amendment.

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Teachers can do the same with Presidents, new countries learned about in social studies, Bill of Rights, American Wars etc


 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">For Special Education and Life skills **

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Animoto videos can be used to show students good classroom behaviors like raising hands, speaking in a soft voice, sitting crossed legged on the floor etc. Teachers can also make videos to teach students various life skills such as crossing the street, washing hands, brushing teeth etc. Teachers can create video using images from the web or they can take photos of students in class doing the task.

<span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Images and photos for <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">the video can be selected from Animoto. To select groups of photos and graphics use the control key and the left mouse click.

<span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can also use [|Flickr] to get images and photos to make an Animoto presentation or video. Flickr provides several ways to select copyright friendly images (from its creative commons section) to use in multimedia projects.

<span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">“All photos used from Flickr (or any other digital site) should be given appropriate attribution. This is modeling good digital citizenship to our students. Often it is difficult to find enough information to create a proper citation, so a simple photo credit with the URL to the original photo is sufficient. This can be done directly on the image or in a page at the end of the production.” (department of instructional technology, MCPS, 2010)

**<span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Evaluate/Test Yourself **

 * <span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Complete these activities and then complete an evaluation survey on the evaluation page of this wiki. You can navigate to that page from the table of contents or the navigation menu on the right. **


 * 1) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sign up for free Animoto Account
 * 2) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Download images on a topic of your choice from Flickr
 * 3) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Select 5 images or photos from the creative commons section of Flickr
 * 4) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Attribute credit to the photos you use from Flickr on the image
 * 5) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Select another 5 images related to your topic from Animoto
 * 6) <span style="font-family: serif,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Create a short video using Animoto and the images from Flickr with narration and music.

Create a video about yourself to introduce yourself to your students and their parents in the beginning of the school year. In the video include some fun facts about yourself, about your family, pets, favorite foods and what you like to do in your free time.
 * OR**

Create a video about a place you would like to visit this summer. Tell us why you would like to visit this place and what you will do there. For your students you can have them research a place and make a video persuading parents to take them to this place of their choice for a vacation.
 * OR**

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">You can summarize the importance of the political, economic, and social life of Mali and other African <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">empires and analyze the role of Islam in Africa using Animoto. Include a map of the region.
 * OR**

**<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Additional Materials **
<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">[|iLearn technology] is an EDU blog that talks about different ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. This link talks about "what is Animoto" and "how to use it in the classroom."

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Animoto’s slideshow tool gets video support. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">This [|article] from Cnet News talks about a new feature Animoto added to its repertoire in 2009 being able to add videos alongside photos and being able to convert photos and videos into a video slide show.

<span style="font-family: 'Serif','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Video Tutorial
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