1. Animoto.com Visit:http://animoto.com/education/http://animoto.com/education/ Sign up and wait for a promotional code. Your promotional code will be sent to you in a couple of days. Your students need to use this promotional code in order to make free animoto.com videos.

2. Animoto.com The first step to making a video: –Make sure you have “Quicktime” installed. –You can always download a free version of it. –Create a picture file from a Google Images search (JPEG images only) or from your own camera. –Choose to make a full-length video –Download the pictures into Animoto.com –You may arrange the pictures in any order. –There is also a text box to add text.

3. Animoto.com –You may need to convert your I-tunes (MP4 format) to a MP3 format. –Download Cdex, free software for conversion to MP3 format. Google “Cdex” or visit http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4- 0.html?query=CDEX

4. Animoto.com Animoto offers a “T” tool for adding text. However, you may convert your text into a picture by downloading a free version of cooltext.com It can make your text look like a “graffiti” picture, “wave” etc.

5. Animoto.com The third step to making a video: –Go ahead and ask Animoto to create the video. –You may turn off or leave the computer. –They will email you the final product in about an hour. –You may go back and remix any portion of the video. –All of your versions of your videos will be saved until you delete them.