Vacation Animoto

I created this animoto to showcase some of the sites that I visited while in Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, and Sedona.  Although it may seem like there are a lot of photos in this animoto, it is a small sample of the photos I took.  If you are interested in using any of the photos (or ones like them) in your classroom to enhance a lesson just let me know and I'll be more than happy to get you a copy of them.  There are a variety of Science topics that possibly may be relevant using these photos. Some of the photos are of plant and animal life, the desert, rock structures, and landscapes.  You will also notice that some are displays with information from various museums we visited.

Kindergarten Intervention (Letter and Sound Identification)

My niece (Kindergarten) and nephew (1st grade) helped me create this for my kindegarteners and reviewing all letters.  They chose all the pictures to include and eventually completed their own google serches to find the images.  I can use this video for either Letter ID or Sound Fluency.  I also plan on sharing it with a co-worker who also works with a Letter ID intervention group.  I think that because these videos (I have an Only Vowels Animoto in case you missed it!) are short that they are a good way to begin and/ or end each day.

My Animoto Video

   

I created this Animoto video with my Kindergarten intervention students in mind.  We have been working very hard for the past six weeks with learning all of our letter sounds!   We have mastered all of the consonant sounds but still need to work on the vowels.  The students have watched it for the past two days and are loving it.  I can't wait until their next progress monitoring assessment to see additional improvement in this area.  I'm thinking about creating one with all the letters to review with.
                                                                     

I am also hopeful that as a teacher I am adhering to the Net standards and inspiring and advancing student learning by modeling creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.  (Standard 1 for Teachers)

Have you found success with animoto?  Are your students benefitting from integrating technology?

Can someone help me embed the entire video in this post?  I don't know what I am doing wrong.  Can only get the link.