Animoto

Turn your photos, video clips, and music into stunning video masterpieces to share with everyone. Fast, free, and shockingly easy!

Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life. Animoto automatically analyzes music, photos and video clips, and orchestrates a custom video, leaving you free to focus on the content and narrative of your videos. Mix relevant messaging, statistics and quotes among the pictures your videos to educate your audience and inspire them to action.

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Civil Rights: The Children's Crusade

Civil Rights: A Dream Come True

__//**Instructions for Creating an Animoto Presentation**//__

You will need to "Sign Up" to create an account if you do not already have one. You will choose a free account and fill out the required information. Once the account is created, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Animoto For . . .Education." Upgrade your account. This will provide you with 50 student accounts AND enable you to make unlimited videos for your classroom.
 * __//Start Animoto//__** - Enter the URL: http://www.animoto.com



__//**Login**//__ - Click on Sign In and enter your e-mail address and password.



If you are making a new video, you will need to choose a style for your video.



__//**My Videos**//__ - If you already use Animoto, click "My Videos" where you can create a new video or see your existing videos.



__//**Create a New Video**//__ - Select "Create Video" and "Choose Your Video Type".




 * __//Choose a Style//__ -** Click "Create Video"



__//**Choose Your Soundtrack**//__ - You may choose from the music on the site or upload your own Mp3.



__//**Add Pictures and Video**//__ - Upload from a variety of sources.



__//**Add Text Slides**//__



__//**Produce Your Video**//__



__//**Voilà**//__ //**-**// You have a Digital Story!!



__//**It's your turn!!**//__ Think of something you teach in your class.

1. Go out to the WWW and find 5 - 10 pictures you can use to tell your story. 2. Save the pictures to your Desktop where they are easy to find. 3. Select a soundtrack. 4. Upload your photos. 5. Create a few text slides to clarify the tale you are trying to tell with the images. 6. Produce your video.