Digital Story Telling the Animoto Way

I’m always looking for ways to re-purpose my photos and express my creativity. And I love it when technology and technique resonates with my right brain.  Its gets better when my kids can express their creativity so eaily.  Well I’ve found just the right site for creating digital stories. Animoto.com is a great site for assembling a video story using text, pictures and music.

Last May I heard about Animoto and immediately signed up for a $30 account.  I made a few movies and then just moved on.  Today I revisited the site and was excited to see the addition of new features, like easily added text transitions and much nicer and smarter  transitions.  Even better, they now make it easy to download pictures from one of your flickr sets and they have a lot more and higher quality, license free music.

I could spend a lot of words describing what Animoto is and how to use it. But the best way for you to learn about it is to just play with it. You can sign up for a free account and create short movies (30 seconds). So why don’t you watch the video and then go to animoto.com and create a 30 second video.