Final Project

Here it is my final project! I decided to get together with a couple coworkers to put together a mini presentation on the Nursing program we offer at Goodwin College by using Animoto. I was able to shown them the one I previously created for the American Liver Foundation as an example and it really got everyone excited to help me out! I had one person do the image search, I let them know it is best to utilize images that come up using the Advanced Google Image search. I also had one person help with the scripting and once everyone got a feel for Animoto everything fell into place , I helped come up with the music selection. One thought I did have after completing the Animoto is that Photo Story 3 probably would have allowed for more text on each slide, but over all I think for the information we were looking to provide it came out very well.

I also put together a Google form to get an idea from my coworkers how helpful they thought the final product was, and what they thought about Animoto as a digital tool in general. You can see the form I used below.

ALF Animoto Style

For those of you wonder what exactly ALF is, it stands for the American Liver Foundation!  Just about two years ago my little sister then 15 years old out of no where started suffering from acute liver failure.  And within two weeks only 20% of her liver was functioning.   We needed a miracle!  And I am happy to say we received one, my sister has been doing well in recovering, and will be off to her first year in college come the Fall.  With all that being said my family and I participate annually in the Liver Life Walk and with the American Liver Foundation.  So every year I speak with co workers in hopes that they will find the cause just as important as I do and either contribute a donation or participate in the Liver Life Walk with a team.  Every little bit helps towards research and educating those who don't already know that Liver Disease is one of the top ten cause of death across the United States.




Because I am not an educator I chose to do my Animoto on ALF because I know it is something I am able to share with my colleagues in trying to rally their support around this cause.  I found creating the Animoto to be pretty easy, however I did accidentally produce my first draft when in fact I thought I was previewing it.  But I quickly realized my error and got back to the drawing board.  I hope you guys enjoy my first Animoto!

For my images I used the Google advanced image search.  When doing this image search I actually found an image of my family and other participants from an event we were part of  which was kind of cool because we had no clue it was searchable! I also used the American Liver Foundation website for a couple of the facts listed in the Animoto.

Fun with Animoto

  


I went browsing through the sample Animotos and came across Lori's.  She created a Animoto on Idioms that I thought was pretty cool.  Not only did she use the text to show for example " cat got your tongue?" she found images to also coincide with each phrase so her class could see a visual.  I also really enjoyed the fact that she actually took the time to make each of the Idioms fit into a continuous story line that involved a teacher and two students.  It was pretty clever and has given me some inspiration for when I start my Animoto project.

Animoto Inspiration!

If you haven't had the chance to view Anne Marie's Animoto you can find the link below. She took the book "Very Hungry Caterpillar" and transformed it by using Animoto take a second to check it out!  I found her Animoto to be refreshing she had a wonderful idea of putting this novel to music and making a mini video to give her students another way to view the story and a chance to to compare the illustrations to "real life" objects etc.  While I am not a teacher,  this example helps to show me another way to utilize a tool like Animoto .  I don't know that I would have thought to put a book into motion on my own, but now I know it is possible, I think Animoto will be my favorite new thing! How about you?