Here is the latest film in the Technologies for Creative Learning series.

Animoto is a great web based application that produces videos from photos, video clips and music. For me it has excellent learning potential, and although this film uses mainly literary texts, I think that pupils creating their own films in almost any subject brings literacy alive – be it scientific, cultural, mathematical or indeed any other form of literacy. The point is that creating something new out of something learned is a powerful step towards deep understanding … I’ll let the film speak for itself …

Animoto

Here are a couple of examples created during my own teaching …

A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannell

The Sick Rose by William Blake

The full collection of Technologies for Learning is on the Pedagoo blog here –
http://www.pedagoo.org/2011/09/some-teaching-and-learning-tools-to-assist-the-revolution/