week 10: Michelle's weekly reports and reflections

Hi guys!

So last week we talked about a survey tool called Polldaddy and how it is a great tool to understands people’s opinions in a quick manner. This week I will be switching gears and explore a slideshow tool called Animoto.

Animoto

Animoto is a video creation tool that creates a video slide show from your chosen pictures, video clips and short sentences. If you have look at another page of mine titled “My slideshow” I mention how it is similar to Words powerpoint except it allows you to add non copy written music and only allows you to add short texts limited by the number of allowed character.

After exploring this tool I quickly noticed how easy it was! It was perfect because it took you step by step on how to use it in a simple guided manner. This tool is a great tool for presentations and a different (good different) substitute to PowerPoint or any other slideshow tools : prezi etc. This tool allows for an efficient way to communicate information to other individuals and allows the creator to learn how to keep information concise and quick all while giving enough detailed information.

How can Animoto build knowledge?

For the viewer, they are gaining knowledge about the topic being viewed on the slide. For the creator it builds knowledge in organization skills because they have to present their thoughts on the slideshows in a fashion that makes sense for the viewer. The character limit in Animoto is not only a way for the creator to learn what information is important to express but it also helps the viewer to better and more easily remember the information. Finally Animoto helps build knowledge in public presentations.

How is this tool different from other expressive tools?

 

 As mentioned many times before Animoto is different from powerpoint because it allows the creator to add music to the slide and it has a character limit to texts. It is also different from google docs slide because only you, the creator, can edit it’s the slides contents. You could go as far as saying that Animoto is a tool that doesn’t quite support collaborative work because editing is private to the creator

Animoto and my PLE

You knew this was coming! I would add this tool under the producing content subtheme which is under the synthesizing and creating part because am creating a place where information can be viewed. I can also put in it under the communication subtheme which is under the collaborative and socializing part. Although this is not so much of a collaborative tool, it is a social tool allowing anyone to have access to it (if found). I am also communicating information. In addition people can put comments about the slide thus communicating their opinions. 

Langill.M (2015)

Well that is all for this week. Please check out my Animoto slide under my page “My slideshow”. It will help you gain a little bit of knowledge on copy-write.

Cheers.