This week I integrated several video clips about the solar system into my Earth, Sun, and Moon unit in third grade. To give my students a better format for consuming the videos, I saved the videos to my favorites list and had students access my You Tube channel. This went better than I expected, but I did have several students trying to click on the other suggested videos on the right hand side of the screen, and this was hard to manage at first. These video clips really got my kids interested and engaged, as well as thinking more critically about the information. Below is the link to my You Tube Channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ecraden23?feature=BF
A few months ago, I created an video slideshow on Animoto to enhance a unit on the Explorers. What I liked about Animoto was that it was very user friendly and straightforward. It is very simple to add music, change the background, and upload pictures to the show. One thing that I did not like, however, was that it limited you to so many words per slide. I did not want to overburden the slide with text, but I did want to add just one or two more words in some cases and I was unable to do so. Overall, my kids thought it was neat that I had made the video, and many of them asked if they could try making one. I think that sounds like a great idea, and at the end of our current science unit, I am going to allow them to make an Animoto slideshow. Below is the link to the slideshow I created for my Explorers unit. I apologize for not being able to embed the video.
http://animoto.com/play/eLC9DR4gF78UT0XMheZ1dQ
http://www.youtube.com/user/ecraden23?feature=BF
A few months ago, I created an video slideshow on Animoto to enhance a unit on the Explorers. What I liked about Animoto was that it was very user friendly and straightforward. It is very simple to add music, change the background, and upload pictures to the show. One thing that I did not like, however, was that it limited you to so many words per slide. I did not want to overburden the slide with text, but I did want to add just one or two more words in some cases and I was unable to do so. Overall, my kids thought it was neat that I had made the video, and many of them asked if they could try making one. I think that sounds like a great idea, and at the end of our current science unit, I am going to allow them to make an Animoto slideshow. Below is the link to the slideshow I created for my Explorers unit. I apologize for not being able to embed the video.
http://animoto.com/play/eLC9DR4gF78UT0XMheZ1dQ
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