When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons. Each student can be involved in independent or small-group work with the technology. Moreover, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress.

One of the tools we will be using is Animoto. What is Animoto? Animoto is a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images, video clips and music that a user selects. Utilizing patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence, Animoto videos have the emotional impact of a movie trailer and the visual energy of a music video.

For more information on how to use Creative Commons images, go to Ms. Eyer's Blog.

Click on this link to create your own Animoto account:  https://animoto.com/sign_up  Use this promo code: XXXXXXXXX

Click on Sign Up and then Try It Now. Now you are ready to Create.

If you have any questions, please refer to the "Animoto How-To-Guide" below.