After reading the book, The Cay, Mrs. Garst has been following up with various student projects in reflection. One of the assignments was to make a commercial to hook a future reader. Rather than do a powerpoint, or re-enacting a scene with flip cameras, some students chose to complete their project with the help of Animoto. We have never tried this before in a group setting and practiced some "just-in-time learning". After we applied and were accepted for a free educational account with Animoto, the students were able to log in and learn the makings of a commercial. We've learned that a paragraph on the screen is not always in the viewers best interest when trying to sell the viewer a book. We have also learned a bit about summarizing the book or a part of it, and that something needs to change within every 10 seconds (learning directly & indirectly) in order to keep the viewers attention. The creation of titles for the videos are limited to 30 characters and up to 2 lines per slide using Animoto's settings, with some flexibility incorporating the SMART Notebook and customizing a slides to upload screenshots. We've learned that picture after picture, or a ton of text doesn't always sell the viewer on the product. Uploading photos, screenshots, text, and selecting from animoto's music or uploading other, the students have been able to assemble a commercial in a minimal amount of time.
This is an example of time crunch classroom multimedia projects. We had 1 day to officially work on it in class, and several days to work on it in homeroom, before or after school (spare time) if they did so choose.
Thought I'd share some English Commercials....
I first gave them a sample of this to sample of this:
that took me about 5 minutes to complete and told them they could do far better.
They could create their projects in whatever media form they wanted, but Animoto was the flavor of the day!
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