Kinda had an exciting week this week in ICT class. In class we were shown new applications for multimedia and digital storytelling. The class was asked to pick some photos that could be placed into a story. Then we were shown a site called Animoto, which is a free site that allows you to take your photos and put them into a movie based template. You can choose the music that you want to place into your movie and create captions that tell the story for you. This site is great for use in schools as students can tell stories of life events and do class projects for school. I personally think that this site is great for students as it is easy for them create movies, however I think that Windows Movie Maker is a better application as it contains more options for creating movies and editing them. I have a lot of experience using Movie Maker as I create many movies in my spare time.
In another class, my classmate was searching YouTube for a class project, She came across a video that was made by a website called Powtoon. I decided to research this site and I found that it was a free site that allowed you to create animated videos that could be used for classroom presentations. The site has many options for animation tools. The site should be used to create short presentations as each slide can only be a maximum of 20 seconds long. One can also add background music to the movie. Sadly, only one voice over can be played over the entire movie instead of different voice overs per slide. For a demonstration on Powtoon, I have created a short demonstration video on how the movies look and what they contain.
Powtoon (click here)
So what's better? Animoto or Powtoon?
I'll leave it up to you.
Take care,
Jordan
Thanks for sharing about Powtoon - I have heard of it, but never used it - worth exploring!
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