Thing # 21!

For this exercise we explored the website Animoto! This is a website that allows you to upload pictures and set them to a video with music!



I had never heard of this website until this class. Signing up was very easy and so was getting started. I don't really like how you have to pay for a longer video of 30 seconds, but I feel that a 30 second video can say alot if you select the correct images! I really liked how it will go and find pictures on a different website. For example, I linked to my facebook to find photos of our wedding since I wasn't on my personal computer while doing this thing. I added my own music using an MP3 file from itunes. I couldn't find a song I liked using their music so I figured I would attempt to upload my own! Overall, this website was very cool! I am thinking I could find several ways to use it in a classroom such as making a movie of pictures from class at the end of the year and posting it either on the blog for the class or the wiki site I created for the class!

What I didn't like about the website was how long it took to seem to put it together at the end. As I sit here writing this I am waiting for my movie to be made by the website and I am not sure if its working or if its stopped itself and caused an error! I would also like if you could add more pictures to the 30 second time-8-15 pictures is really not all that long!

Overall, I really enjoyed this exercise! I even might possibly make a movie for my husband for valentine's day using my favorite pictures of us and vacations!