Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Education
Click on Apply Now
In the upper right, look for Sign Up and click on it
Fill out the form and click Sign Up
In the next window, an Animoto Application for Education will appear. Fill out the form and click sign up. Once approved, you will receive a code to use for up to 50 users.
Remember – sign up for the Education Account because it allows you to create unlimited full length videos.
Adding Students to Your Animoto Education Account
Create a “Master” Gmail Account to use with your Animoto Account. This account will allow you to create different log ins for your student while having control of your student Animoto Accounts. For details on how this works and instructions for setting up your student accounts, please click here.
This is what I received in my “Master” gmail account at the end of our workshop. See how I can see what my “students” are doing in Animoto?
Hint – if you have more than 50 students, team up with another teacher(s) and create accounts you can share.
Additional Resources
Bloomin Apps
This post by Kathy Schrock includes the Web 2.0 Blooms Graphic shared along with other examples of Blooms in EdTech. This page also includes the Gear Graphic I referred to in my presentation.
Creative Commons
Use this page to search for media licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to creative work and indicates whether the work can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon. This is not only an excellent resource to use, but teaching Creative Commons to students allows them to learn how to share their work as well.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything – Screencasting in the Classroom This is the motherload of all screencasting resources. It includes tools for screencasting (paid, free, and mobile), lesson plans, teacher samples, students samples, blog posts about screencasting and more. I personally haven’t found a better resource on screencasting in the classroom.
11 Reasons Teachers Should Make Their Own Videos
An excellent post from Edudemic which includes explanations of why screencasts work in education, actually, 11 explanations. Also includes a great infographic and sample videos.
Technology For The New Year
This post was written in 2011, but still relevant. It’s a teacher’s reflection in creating screencasts and includes examples of his students screencasts along with the tool he used with his students.
Using Jing to Assess Student Writing
An excellent post on how one teacher uses screencasting to give his students feedback on their writing. Includes examples.
Flipped Classroom Network
A professional learning community for teachers using screencasting in education. Connect with other educators who are screencasting and find valuable resources for creating screencasts.
How to Make an Educational Screencast
An awesome tutorial that explains how to use Keynote, Omnidazzle, and Screenflow to create an educational Screencast.
Click here to download the instructions for uploading media to your KS website.
Google Forms For More This website by Google Certified Teacher, Allison L. Mollica, has everything you need using Google Forms. From beginner to advanced, for teachers and administrators, this is the best Google Forms resource is I’ve found.
Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom
Looking for ideas for using Google forms in your classroom? Well look no further. This presentation, originally create by Tom Barret, is still growing with teachers contributing to ideas for using forms. Got an Idea? Add it to the presentation!
Google forms are a useful tool to help you plan events, send a survey, give students a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way organized for you in a spreadsheet. You will learn how to create, edit, and share forms, as well as learn different ways forms can be used in the classroom.
I just watched this fabulous ISTE Ignite Presentation by the fabulous Will Richardson and one of the points he makes is to stop asking Google for all the answers. He says,
Probably one of the most transformative things that happened to me over the last five years is that I don’t go to Google to ask questions anymore, I got to Twitter. I go to a network of people who are really interested in the types of things that I am and can answer my questions better than Google can.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I actually love Google, but I can not agree with Will more. It is so important that we as educators build a Personal Learning Network where we can learn from each other in ways that make use better at what we do. But I want to add to Will’s advice and say that while Twitter is an awesome place to go to ask questions, there are other fantastic places as well:
Edmodo – Edmodo is full of communities where teachers can connect with other teachers and exchange ideas and recommend content. In some cases, I’ve found I get answers to some of my questions faster with using Edmodo than I have when asking on twitter.
Nings – A ning is social website that brings like minded people together. I belong to a couple of nings I find very helpful:
Classroom 2.0 is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0, social media, and participative technologies in the classroom. Yup…that’s me.
The Educator’s PLN – a ning dedicated to the support of Personal Learning Networks for Educators
Facebook Groups – I belong to an excellent Facebook group called iPad Education Dreams. My colleague and friend, Lynne Horiuchi, recommended it to me and I’ve found it to be a great resource and a place to ask questions to connected educators.
While it’s important for us to learn where we can find answers to our own questions, we need to teach these skills to our students as well. Where are they going for their answers?
I am so lucky to work at such a fabulous school where teachers are teaching teachers about technology. Last Wednesday, Kumu Kanani taught us how to create headers for blogs using Adobe Photoshop Elements 10. It was so much fun and teachers left with a new tool to use to enhance their blog, but they also discussed how they could use Photoshop Elements to enhance their curriculum.
This is only one of the many examples of the awesome sharing that’s happening at Kula Ha’aha’a. Click here for Kumu Kanani’s Blog Post about the training session.
This month is Connected Educator Month and what makes being a connected educator so awesome is the ability to have access to top educators around the world and see what they’re reading, what they’re writing, who they’re following without having to fork out the big bucks to attend a conference. Connecting for me has been invaluable for my professional life and I wanted to share some of the ways I stay connected. I’ll have more in depth posts/tutorials on each of these tools coming soon.
Twitter – Twitter has changed my life, especially once I figured out how to use a hashtag! Top educators around the globe use twitter to SHARE resources. When I have an edtech question, I ask my tweeps on twitter and often get numerous responses. I usually browse twitter while I’m having my morning coffee to see what’s going on in the edtech world.
Just a note – you don’t even have to be on Twitter to what gurus in education are sharing, Are you a fan of David Warlick? Check out what he’s sharing at https://twitter.com/dwarlick
Diigo – Diigo is a social bookmarking site I use to bookmark resources. What I love about Diigo is my bookmarks are not housed on my computer, but I can access them from any computer as well as pretty much any mobile device. But what’s even better, is I can see other people’s resources…the people who are smarter than I am. In 2011-2012, our High School was in the planning year for a one-to-one project. Rather than spending hours and hours hunting for resources, I just found other educators who were on Diigo and used their bookmarks. Diigo also allows users to tag their bookmarks which makes locating that awesome resource you remember bookmarking a couple months ago really easy to find.
Facebook– I use facebook primarily for socializing and keeping up with my friends, but I also am part of some edtech groups and “like” many edtech pages. Like twitter, there are leaders in education who are sharing resources and talking about hot topics in todays education on Facebook.
Edmodo – Edmodo is secure social networking site that can be used as a course management system for students. Edmodo is an excellent source for Professional Development. There are multiple groups users can join and share resources as well as post questions and have discussions. Glogster has a group in Edmodo I have tapped into quite often. When I’ve asked questions to the group, not only have I had responses from other Glogster members, but from Glogster themselves.
iGoogle – I use iGoogle as my blog reader. I used to use Google Reader, but I like the way iGoogle displays the blogs better than reader. iGoogle is a great way to organize multiple email accounts, social networking accounts, aggregate blogs, and so much more.
By the way, Classroom 2.0 is hosting a Social Learning Summit as I write this post. I’m heading over as soon as I publish.
Evernote – I love using Evernote to take notes on multiple devices, but what I like even better is when there’s someone else who takes notes and shares their notes with me! I can tag my notes so they’re easy to find. I can include pictures and weblinks in my notes which is great for a visual learning such as myself.
IFTTT – This tool I discovered this summer and wish I would have invented it! IFTTT stands for “If this, then that”. Basically, you can make a recipe to organize your online tools. For example, When I favorite a tweet in twitter, it bookmarks the url in my Diigo account. Jackpot! I usually browse twitter on my phone or iPad so I used to email myself the resources I wanted to bookmark and then bookmark them later once I got to my computer. Now, I just press the little star and voilà, it’s done for me!
I would like to mention, that there’s no right or wrong way to connect. The tools I use may be different than the tools someone else may use. Most of these tools I discovered because of my connections. I’m only as good as the people I surround myself with and with the Internet, I’m surrounded by some pretty amazing edtech people who are willing to share so we can all be better. That translates into helping kids and isn’t that why we’re educators?
