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The site’s text blocks have a limited number of characters so students must write concisely and succinctly.

The visual, audio, and textual elements in producing the videos help students produce visual messages and strengthen visual literacy skills.

ocabulary study tool. First she created a private Google Group for her students. After each student is assigned a vocabulary word, they locate pictures on the Internet that represents their word. After pictures are uploaded to the site, they add text for a title, definition and pronunciation of the word.

With a little experience, making an Animoto shouldn’t take much more than 15 minutes. Oftentimes, loading the pictures takes longer than creating the video.

Get out the digital camera and start taking pictures.

This past week, students at one of the schools where I work were transferring their poems to the sidewalks surrounding the school with sidewalk chalk. It is a great activity, and we decided to make a video with the pictures that were taken. This video took about 20 minutes to make.