foolfillment: the blog

I’m sure most people reading this will have seen Animoto before, but if you haven’t: it’s a great wee service that bills itself as the end of slideshows. Basically it lets you upload images that you want to put together in a presentation, it then takes them and puts them into a slick video clip with music that you have selected. Until just at the end of the Winter term I had not used it in class before, for a few reasons, most of them to do with me being busy doing other things, but one reason being the limited access to a PC during most of my lessons.

I’m revisiting the idea now because at the end of the term Animoto brought out an app for the iPhone. The app is so incredibly simple and quick to use that there really is not excuse not to dip in occasionally and use it.

When I was at home over Christmas I put together the video below, it took just a few minutes of fooling around with the camera and then a few minutes for Animoto to process the video.

I’ve said it before, so have many many other people: The iPhone and other similar 3G devices are going to have such a huge impact on schools. How do we get to the stage where teachers aren’t scared to let pupils use what they have in their bags, what they use day in day out outside of school?

Tags: 3g, animoto, iphone, video

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