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Creating Ag Movies with Animoto for the 21st Century Classroom

Learn how to use Animoto to teach students to produce engaging ag story movies, incorporating facts, photos, music, and more. Explore topics like stewardship, water, bees, and more in a fun and educational way. Discover the power of project-based learning, incorporating the 4Cs – Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Enhance student engagement and creativity while meeting various educational standards. Join this hands-on workshop to bring ag stories to life on the big screen.

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Creating Ag Movies with Animoto for the 21st Century Classroom

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  1. Turning Ag Stories Into AG Movies Cheryl Bombenger Contact Me: musicmovesmyclassroom@yahoo.com

  2. With writing a key means of communication in the 21stCentury, learn how to teach your students to create Animoto video productions to share on the big screen for Literacy Night. Bring your computer and photos and go from teaching ag lessons, to writing an informed narrative, to creating a production with facts, photos ,music, and more. This is a make and take/ make a movie on your computer to take with you. Students from grade 3 on, as well as state coordinators and directors will enjoy the excitement while telling an ag story as a movie.

  3. STYLE www.animoto.com CREATE Set up a free trial account…EDUCATOR Account Then: • Select a STYLE (design…color, background, style) • Add photos, video clips, TEXT, and music • (yours or from the Animoto Library) • Produce…and SHARE

  4. Apply for Education Account • a free 6-month subscription code to create up to 50 Animoto accounts for your students, along with a link for creating your student accounts. • www.animoto.com

  5. What ag story can you tell? • Vegetable Garden • Stewardship • Water • Living on a farm • Bees • Butterflies • Insects • My favorite farm animal

  6. 21st Century Learning • Topics can result from • Stories you share with them • Ag related songs you sing • Dirty Thirties • Water • Food Chain • Scholastic News articles • Current events in your area/ country/ the world • Guest speakers…Miss Honey Bee • Events in the school…Breakfast With A Business

  7. How are you going to begin? • With a question? • With an alarming fact? • Did you know that…? • With an interesting tid-bit? • Maybe you’re just telling an Ag-Story?

  8. Thinking About a Topic • What are you learning about in your classroom? • What interesting topic would you (students) like to study? • What is happening in the real world that your students could do to investigate a concern? To solve a problem? • Comparing the urban areas to the rural areas.

  9. Project based learningPBL • Students work independently (in groups) • Teaches the 4 Cs • Communication • Collaboration • Critical Thinking • Creativity

  10. Deciding on a topic as a group • Water • What standards are you going to hit? • Reading Standards…research, check out books, decoding • Writing Standards …information text, opinion writing, fairy tale • Punctuation, Capital Letters, Common Nouns, Proper Nouns, Suffixes • Communication Standards …talk to each other, collaborate • Science Standards … at grade level …plus others

  11. Incorporate the Engineering Design Process • Define • Research • Brainstorm • Choose • Build • Test • Communicate • Redesign

  12. Droughts

  13. Once the topic has been decided… • Research and more collaboration…critical thinking, and creative solutions

  14. Write your story • Backward Planning (what do you want to accomplish) • To show …. • Beginning ~ Middle ~ End • Collect Facts

  15. Animoto Account • www.animoto.com • Education accounts…trials and shorter presentations for free

  16. Let the writing begin • Short and concise information … there are limits on the number of letters

  17. Gather Images…that go with your Storyboard… 1 folder • From the camera that students’ photos that they’ve taken to tell the story (personal connection) • From Google images

  18. You can upload them all at one time • Click on one image (first one) …hit the shift button and click the last one, and they will all upload • You can upload one at a time to design your text and images to be better suited

  19. You can use images and video clips from the Animoto library • Videos are to add excitement and pizzazz to your presentation

  20. Collaborate to redesign • Is everything correct? • Punctuation and capital letters? • Clarity of images…do I need to replace any?

  21. Music • Decide on using song…their music collection is free • Look at the time limit…longer song for longer presentation

  22. Process • Allow time for it to be produced • It’s ready to go within minutes… plus

  23. What do you do with it when Done? • Add it to your class Twitter Account * TA-DA @ Cheryl Bombenger • Upload it to your students’ Seesaw accounts • Individual Student Portfolios • Students can collect their work daily (folders) • Teachers access ~ Parents See ~ Students show

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