Thing #21

Family and Friends This discovery activity was one that I really enjoyed but found a little frustrating. When I first signed up and connected to my Facebook a video was instantly created by Animoto, which was nice, but I was looking forward to creating my own. It took some time to figure out how to create a new video and I ended up figuring out how to edit the one the site automatically had made. It was frustrating because I wanted to choose a style/background for the video and it kept saying I had to upgrade and pay for them. I did find my way around that however and had fun changing the pictures and music for video slideshow. I loved that it let me choose where in the song I wanted to start so I could have the chorus play through this 30 second video. It was also rather difficult trying to figure out how to get it on my blog. I tried doing it from my blog, and from Animoto. I finally found that under "sharing" there is "more options" that include blogger. This was one of my favorite activities to do and I will most likely use it in the future. I think it would be fun to use to make videos of my classes, which I think students like. I remember in 5th grade, the teachers made a slideshow to the graduation song and all of us girls cried when we were watching it. The song combined with the pictures of us and our friends, made the idea of leaving elementary school for middle school so much sadder. But we did enjoy it through our tears.