Animoto in my Classroom

After working with the animoto website, I discovered how easy it is to jazz up pictures and make a short video to catch students attention.  I believe www.animoto.com would be a great way to not only introduce or summarize a topic, but also a great way  to let them use there creative minds to form their own videos about a topic.  This would be a great eye catcher to show at the beginning of a unit.  It could have pictures of the main ideas of the subject matter with key vocab words to go along with it.  Also, I think this would be a way to incorporate a short review that the students can watch at home.  This could be as little as putting all the leading important points into a slide and have short definitions or pictures that explain them.  This would not only help students when studying , but also aid them if they miss a class period from sickness, games, or other events.  The last point I would like to bring up is how the students could make these themselves.  I think it would be a good project to do at the beginning of the school year.  The students could make a short video about themselves to help me learn more about them.  After they learn how to master this site they can make reviews for each other as a fun way to study.