Animoto - All Access account for FREE
May 2, 2008I have demonstrated using Animoto several times over the last few months, the ability to produce a cool looking 30 second video for free was excellent. Well now Animoto are offering ‘all access’ accounts to educators for free:
THE OVERVIEW -
Since launching our site in August, we’ve heard countless stories about how useful Animoto has been as a tool for educators to use with students. While we never originally thought Animoto would be something that could be used in the classroom, we’ve been both surprised and inspired by hearing how effective Animoto has been. We feel like this is one area we can do our duty to “give back” a little.
If you are interested, we’d like to give you a “Classroom Code” that’ll give each of your students a free All-Access pass (unlimited full-length videos for a whole year) upon signing up with this code. And you can use Animoto with your students however you wish. Keep in mind that videos can be viewed full-screen for classroom presentations.
Students’ Animoto videos can now also be downloaded to your desktop–we’ve heard this is often more conducive for class presentations because you can view videos without being dependent on an internet connection and without the “Distractions” of the website.
The only thing we ask is that you keep us posted with the creative ways you find to use Animoto in the classroom. Our goal is to put together a collection that becomes a hub of sorts for teachers who use web 2.0 technology in a clever, innovative & fun way.
Animoto is a great tool and since I introduced it
DJAnimoto is a great tool and since I introduced it to the students at <a href=”http://marywebb.net”Mary Webb I’ve had countless entertaining and informative videos in my inbox. We’ve even used it to create evidence for OCR Nationals! A word of warning though - if you regard email addresses as personal information (I know I do) you’re on dodgy ground re the Data Protection Act if children register their email addresses outside the EU. I got round this by having a catchall address at marywebb.net; using this their emails and notifications (and any subsequent spam) come to me. This has the added advantage that whenever they create a new video, I’m notified and I get to vet it straight away. If I see something I don’t like (contravenes the “Would Mr Jones’ Granny object to this?” policy) I can change a password and remove the offending article (thinks: this might be dodgy ground too actually). The ofender needs to see me to get their password back.
I am interested in a receiving a code for an
Joanne GoodwinI am interested in a receiving a code for an all access pass for my students
Joanne - you need to go to http://biz.animoto.com/education/overview.html to get
SteveJoanne - you need to go to http://biz.animoto.com/education/overview.html to get the free access account.
Steve