Animotivation

Hello, we are going for broke! I must finish all the tasks that remain tonight, or I am ineligible for prizes! Imagine life without prizes.

Stop imagining now, it's too scary (I got told I was already ineligible but blow that).

Had a bit of a fish around Animoto, but lacking any photos to upload I didn't really get to have a play. I can see this coming in handy around the library in a couple of ways. Firstly it could be used as a way to sex up features on the library website. Where we might have previously shown some images with an event, using Animoto we could be all wizz bang check it out animated and musicified storytime! There will be queues out the door.

It could also be a handy resource for Akozone classes. Like a flash version of the old 'what I did on my holidays' story, kids could use Animoto to show what they did. Or even better, explain something else using images rather than words. [soapbox] It's becoming more and more common for younger generations to communicated, in quite sophisticated ways, in forms other than the written word. This means image and video, primarily, but also in sound, and in the combining of media. Reading/writing is still important to education, but not just reading/writing texts. The reading and writing of visual material should also be taught, and Animoto offers a free to cheap way of doing this. [/soapbox]