Telling a Story- Creating Poems with Animoto

by Langwitches ~ August 22nd, 2009. Filed under: Digital Storytelling.

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There is a growing list of incredible sites and tools to give wings to our and our students’ creativity in telling stories. These stories can be poems, voice, text, video, music and so much more, only limited by our own creativity.
Last year I concentrated on exploring tools such as

In addition to these tools, take a look at

Here is my attempt to convert a poem by Jorge Luis Borges into an Animoto music video with my images.

  1. First I picked a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, that spoke to me.
  2. Segmented the poem and typed the words separately onto different slides into PowerPoint
  3. Changed fonts style and background color
  4. Saved the slides as individual pictures *( You might have to go into “Options” to make sure it exports ALL the slides not just your selected slide)
  5. Uploaded these slides into animoto
  6. Uploaded images that connected the words and the feeling of the poem for me
  7. Arranged images in order
  8. Uploaded  Creative Commons MP3 music
  9. Finalized the movie

Animoto-Poem1

Animoto-Poem2

animoto 3

animoto2

Instead of typing the text in PowerPoint, I have seen students just write the words on pieces of paper and then take a digital image of that paper to upload. It is also worth checking out thousands of images of Words on Flickr, that could be used in telling a story via Animoto.

Flickr_ The Single Word Pool

Also check out the blog post on Simply Teaching: Creating Videos from Student Poetry with great example videos.

Here is my Animoto embedded video:

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8 Responses to Telling a Story- Creating Poems with Animoto

  1. Rita Simons Santiago
    August 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    I would love to see how your Borges Animoto movie turned out! I also love Borges’ poetry.
    Great idea to put the poem to music in movie form. Thanks.

  2. Silvia Tolisano
    August 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    @Rita,
    You should be able to see the embedded Animoto video at the end of the post.

  3. Colin
    August 22nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    are there any export options with animoto? Is itpossible to have your move on your desktop once it is complete?

    thanks

  4. Langwitches
    August 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am

    @Colin
    As far as I know, there is only the export option to YouTube for your completed video. Once it is on YouTube you can convert it with a site such as Zamzar.com to download for your desktop or iPhone.

  5. Jeff Kresge
    August 23rd, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    Animoto is my favorite toy of the moment as well. Be aware that educators can get a free upgrade to allow you and your students to make longer videos than the standard 30 seconds or so.

  6. Jamie
    August 26th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    How do you get the free upgrade for being a teacher?

  7. Langwitches
    August 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Follow this link to Animoto Education to apply.

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