Congratulations to Melissa Campbell for winning this week's drawing.  Check out her video and the other terrific entries here.

This week's challenge is fun, quick, easy and gives slick results.  Animoto is an online program for creating music videos.  All you have to do is sign up, upload your pictures and hit create and Animoto does the rest.

 

This week's challenge is to create a music video using Animoto and share it with your Mount Vernon fans.

 

These videos will be published so make sure that you have permission to publish the photos you are using and that you don't use copyrighted music.

 

Sign up for an Education Account with Animoto through this link. This link is set up for my classroom.  If you sign up through this link, you will have an all access pass for this school year.  This will give you a chance to try it out.  If you love it, you can sign up for your own education account and share this great tool with your students in the same way I am sharing with you. Please note that if you do not sign up through this link or you do not request an educators account, your videos will be limited to 30 seconds unless you pay an annual fee.

(If you do not have speakers on your computer, you may use headphones.  The earbuds used for mp3 players work great.  Borrow a pair if you don't have your own.)

Challenge:  Create and Share an Animoto Video

Your videos will be posted to this site. All entries will be placed in a drawing for a fun and useful prize. The drawing will be held October 15.

1. Sign up for an account using this link.
2. Watch the Animoto Tutorial
3. Watch the Challenge Tutorial. (sound is really low, I will repair this pm)
4. Sign in to Animoto
5. Choose Create Video
6. Upload your photos
7. Choose your music.
8. Create video.
9. Choose to send video by e-mail to mthornburgh@mv.k12.wa.us
10. Send your video to another friend and encourage them to create one of their own..
Bonus: Embed your video on your blog or website and send link to that page.