The writer of this blog describes how he chose a poem, entered it in to PowerPoint, chose colors and style, then saved each slide as a jpg image and imported into Animoto. He also used Creative Commons MP3 music.
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.