Animoto

Animoto is an easy-to-use website for creating slideshow videos. I had never used or created videos or slideshows (other than Powerpoint). I think it's very creative and fun. I could see uses in the classroom for this, but find that it would be very time consuming. I think if I offered students to use this as a presentation tool, I would assign most of the work to be done at home in their spare time so they are not distracted in class. I dislike that if you want the best benefits of the site you have to pay a fee. This could get quite expensive for the classroom, in this case I would instruct students to use the free version for basic functions.