Animoto and the Internet wait

I sit in a local Whataburger, using their free wifi, because the internet is down at my house and apparently no one knows why. So frustrating. So I am on the work order list for Friday, the earliest they could do, between 12 and 4. Grrrrr. Not exactly the best place to be sitting but I really needed to get online. Grrrrr.

So Animoto- well I have written about Animoto before. Awesome web tool. Free upgrade for educators. Quick learning curve. Makes very professional looking videos so you look like you are even more talented than you think you are. I love it!

I helped out today at one of our diocesan tech workshops and we were doing Animoto. Some things we learned last week and this week while teaching the teachers.
1- there are requirements on images and videos that you can use in Animoto. Kind of important. Especially the video part. We discovered, yes you can put in videos, but they will be in 10 second clips. So if you are using video, understand that if you video is more than 10 secs Animoto will trim your video to 10 sec. Advice: film in short 10 sec bursts. It does work and you can still use the fabulous Animoto look for your polished final video.
2- One of our teachers does not remember what her promotional code is so we are trying to retrieve that. She sent an email to the folks at Animoto and we are waiting to see what response she gets. I'll let you know.
3- Student created videos cannot be accessed. There really is no way to view a video unless you have the link, embed code or download the video yourself. A nice feature.

All the teachers loved Animoto and are excited about bringing it to their students. Thank you Animoto for creating a classroom friendly tool.

Here is a great site from our professional development director: Hold the Mayo There are some good links and resources for the workshops we have done.