hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com
this video is about any model Animoto is a video tool it allows you very quickly
to produce videos and those videos can include music and writing and images
now it's a free tool we're going to concentrate on using Animoto as a free tool and we're focusing
on using Animoto in language teaching though in all honesty you could use it in any area of the
curriculum one of the things I like about any motto apart from the fact it's so easy
to make a video and it's great of course to get students to make videos because it's a free tool
but when you make a video you can save it on your computer you can download it
you can embed it and you can share the link so it's really easy to distribute the videos
once you've made them great tool for teachers to show to students you could use it for lots
of different things as well really hope you like this video and as always if you do please like it
please share it with other teachers please comment on it and let's get started so here
we are on the opening page of Animoto you will obviously need to sign up um
I've actually got an account so I'm just going to log in and I'll see you on the other side
so let's start by immediately creating a video so we're logged in to create we just click on this
button here and you've got basically a choice you can start from scratch and you can click on this
button here and that's fine it will work fine and we'll perhaps come back and have a quick look at
that or you what you can do is just choose one of these templates which will kind of make it easier
for you to get started so we'll choose holidays and we use this one we get a
whole series of different templates that we can choose we're just going to take
one of these you can change everything in the template anyway so it really doesn't matter and
let's say for example that we're going to do this one here my new year's story okay so what's been
my story so far this year we click on it and we get a sample of what it's going to look like
okay let's just stop that minute and imagine that we want to use this one we're going to click on
choose template and that's going to open up the template with some pictures in there and some
text etcetera and our job will be now to kind of switch the pictures and the text so that it suits
us now you can load up pictures at this stage okay so if you wanted to suddenly
bring in some pictures i generally don't do that i just skip that stage
get to here because i can always just click on project and bring in my own pictures from here
okay so now we can see the animation that we've chosen or the template that we've chosen
and now what we've got to do is edit it but i'm going to give you a couple of tips before we start
doing that so the first thing i suggest that you do is just get familiar with actually playing it
so you can see what is currently available to do that just click here and that will actually play
the video for you it kind of renders the video and actually plays it for you so you can see what the
video is going to look like so it's kind of a good idea to quickly do that video is going to start
Now, we won't play anymore click on close preview let's imagine that you wanted to
start to edit this well my first recommendation with you to you would be click on ratio and change
it to landscape it's just way easier and it looks much better when you change most of the videos
to landscape and it's so much easier to edit it now we can jump to any of the different pictures
okay and edit them so let's start with that first one it's already on the screen I can literally
just click on here i can obviously click from here and just edit this completely so i'm deleting the
text and then i'm going to write my own text in and i'm going to say this has been a tough
year sorry put it but yeah yeah so far okay and i've now edited the first slide
now what i'm going to do is i'm going to click on the second slide and i can immediately edit
this as well but you might say to yourself well i don't want this picture so what you're then going
to need to do is to get some pictures now if you click on stock pictures you'll see that actually
the majority of the pictures on stock not all of them are paid for there are some that are free
so let me just do an example let's imagine that we want to use this image here this doesn't say that
i need to pay for it so i'm going to drag that and put it onto the screen and you'll see that
it updates now a lot of stock pictures if you search for stock pictures and let me just give
you an example if i click on books and click on enter you'll probably notice that quite a lot of
the stock pictures you need to go pro but there will be always some pictures that you can make
use of in the stock in generally that you can make use of that are actually available to free to you
the other thing you can do in terms of pictures is click on project and just import any pictures
that you want just click here it's going to open up your computer i've got some pictures here that
i can work with i'm just going to grab some of these and use them so we'll just do one two
three four five and i'm going to click on open and now i've imported those pictures in now i'm going
to show you another little trick that you can do to kind of speed up the process when you're
editing your videos so remember project is where you bring your pictures in and stock
is where you get access to the pictures that are available to you from um from Animoto and most of
them you do need to pay for but some of them are free okay we click on photos here you'll
see that there's a fair number of photos that are free so if we jumped onto this third one
okay and let's say I'm going to click here and say change this one to um
I did I did a lot of sport this year why okay so in fact I should really say I have done a
lot of sport because we're still coming we still made it through the middle so i have done a lot
of sport this year and I'm going to just change that picture so I'm going to drag that one and
just drop that on okay don't drag it here because that's the text drag it under here
and that that will replace that picture okay so and let's just jump onto the next one now
and instead of using a picture from the stock i'm going to use one of the pictures
that i have from my own computer so i'm going to then drag that on
and that's going to replace that and i'm going to write in this one here um
i made some new friends okay so i'm building up this text now there's another little trick
here that we can use okay you've got up to a maximum of 15 pictures if i want to i can kind of
um drag another picture on and what you can do instead of actually clicking on an image and then
just replacing it by dragging a picture over if we come back to the stock again and perhaps just drag
this picture onto the screen okay so that's one way then we can change the text here but another
thing we can actually do is actually just simply drag the text let me just find a nice one to use
drag the text to uh the screen that will put that one there okay and that if i just drag it there
that will kind of add to the number of different images that you've got on the screen if you drag
an image on like that on its own so let's just do it one more solution and drag this one onto
the screen notice that you will have to then add the text yourself so if we obviously we've got
that one selected at the moment to add the text you would just click here and then you can add
your text now you don't have to put a title on the subtitle you just click on that and delete
the subtitle and then just put your title in and write for example uh I visited some lovely places
in the UK because I could not travel okay so you can kind of build this up by clicking through
and changing the text okay you're not limited by the way when you um want to uh you know you can
obviously add pictures and add text etc onto the screen you can as well change a little bit the
design so even though you've chosen a particular template which kind of controls a lot of things
if you click on here okay if you click on design you can actually kind of change that and that will
change the text so for example let's click on this one here okay and then that's going to refresh and
that will actually change the way the text looks now on the screen so you've even got the option
not only to choose a certain template but even within a template you can then click on the design
button so that's the design button and the ratio button that's obviously a useful button to undo
we can also change the music so if we click here if we want to change the music and we've got some
music obviously on here we can just delete that music and then you can for example let's choose uh
fun and it brings up a whole range of songs you can roll over and listen to them
and I'm going to choose this one here so I'm going to click on plus
and that will add that that add that song and just know to be careful when you roll over it
starts to play the songs almost immediately okay so just keep that in mind and again nice
interface this you close the button so we've now done quite a lot to this we've we've added new
pictures etc we might want to just go through and make sure that we're happy with everything
one thing to keep in mind when you're making a kind of presentation isn't we'll do this with
the stock if we click here notice that some of the stock are actually pictures some of the stock are
actually videos so it's not always that when you drag a stock image into your production that it's
actually just going to be a stationary video and a stationary image you may have an actual
animation and I'll just give you an example so if i drop this one in here so that we've added that
into our collection just okay you'll see now that that particular one and if we just click on that
we can actually play it by just clicking here and you can actually play it also by
clicking on it if i just pause it a minute you can also just click on it and that will play it
as well so you're not always working with video sorry images you sometimes are working with video
if we click here we can choose the layout for a particular image or a particular slide so if I
click here I do get lots of ways of making that including for example here if I want to have say
a white space where I could add some text on this side okay or you know choose another one
so you've also got that option here okay I'm gonna again I'm gonna delete that top part or
bottom part and then I'm just gonna write um I had my birthday I had my birthday okay I'm just
gonna leave it like that so you get the idea now once we're done and we're happy with our recording
the next thing that we need to do is and one final tip sorry that i didn't say make sure
you give it a name so I'm going to click here and just call this one my year to date okay
the most important thing you need to do is once you've done it you can if you want to just play it
and just check that you're happy okay you can do that um but if you want to you can also export and
so now it's time to export this is where animoto is really good even in the free
account if you click on the export button it's going to render your video first of all
and once it's done that okay so my video is rendered i can actually play the video now
okay but now that it's rendered I've got all of these options I'm going to just take you
through some of these the one of the most obvious ones is to click on copy link and that produces
a link that then you can share so a student can share their link with their teacher or they could
perhaps share their link onto Edmodo so that other students could watch it okay so you've
got loads of options here in terms of first thing that we can do is we can copy the link
as a student and share our video with the rest of our class so that's one option now you also
have the option to download that video so if you click download and you'll notice though you can't
um download it at the highest quality without paying you can download it at standard quality or
even at medium quality okay or low quality so for example if I click here notice that I can
actually download that video onto my own computer because I'm using google chrome that will appear
in my downloads and then I can share that video so if I was to click and open my folder now
showing folder you can see that that video has been downloaded onto my computer so that's another
option this is one of the really good things about Animoto is that you have got loads of options once
you've made a video to how you can use it just a really quick break from the video if you like
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now you also have the option as well
to embed the video so that's another option as you can see actually you've got loads of
options here but let's just go through these ones okay so if you click on embed
you'll notice that it produces a code if it doesn't produce that code because sometimes
it doesn't just kind of click on one of these buttons and then often the code is produced but
I'm going to actually show you how this works so I'll choose a slightly bigger size so I'm going
to choose that size okay it produces the code and I'm going to choose loop which means that
the video will keep playing now I'm going to press on copy now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
embed this into a blog just to show you how easy it is to do that now most systems that accept and
embed code things like Edmodo things like Moodle things like blackboard I'm using blogger here
Wordpress just click on wherever you want to add your code in and in my case when I'm working with
blogger all I need to do in blogger is simply make sure that I'm in the correct mode for
adding the copy the content in and to do that all I need to do is to click on the button over here
and change it to html mode because I can't paste the code in directly onto the screen so just click
on html mode and it's so easy I just simply paste in that code nothing else to do at all
and now that will actually be ready and if I clicked on preview just to quickly show you you'll
see now that that video is actually embedded in to the screen there it is okay so really easy once
you copy a code then paste it into whatever device you want to work with and basically what that
embedded code is doing is playing the video from the Animoto site remember you're not downloading
the video into blogger you're simply linking to the video that's on any motto and you're playing
it through blogger so keep that in mind you're not actually taking a physical copy of the video
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