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Old school one had to use a slide projector after having pictures put on slides at the photo shop. Welcome to New School Slide shows.

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I am a happily married father and grandfather. I enjoy spending time with my family camping, and at Disney World.

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This will take you to the animoto home page.

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Create videos that engage and impress. Animoto's drag-and-drop editing tools and visual effects make it easy. No training or experience necessary.

Create and share videos for free. Upgrade anytime for more customization.

As you get started making videos, we're here to help along the way! Join other businesses just like yours in the Animoto Social Video Marketing Community on Facebook. Our team of video experts is ready to help you grow with tips, ideas, inspiration, and feedback on your videos. You can also reach our dedicated Customer team directly at help@animoto.com .

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Free Video Maker | Create & Edit Your Videos Easily

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Create, edit, and share videos with our free video maker. Combine your photos, video clips, and music to make quality videos in minutes. Get started free!

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This video was created using animoto. This video highlights my family's trip to disney in May 2015.

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Animoto turns your photos and video clips into professional video slideshows in minutes. Fast, free and shockingly simple - we make awesome easy.

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Here is a link with tips from Jonathan Wylie about using animoto for education.

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Animoto, the popular online video creation service, been around for a while now. In fact it has been "in the works" since 2005. I first used it almost four years ago, and I have revisited it many times since that first experience. Why? Because there are few tools that are quicker, easier to use, and capable of producing such a high quality finished product. I love showing it to teachers.

The site is updated regularly with new features, and it even has its own mobile app for iOS and Android. Best of all, Animoto has a free account for Educators. Today, they relaunched their site with a great new look and a new logo too, so I thought now would be as good a time as any to take another look at how useful this tool can be in the classroom.

Making an Animoto video is a very simple process. You start by choosing a style for your video. There are plenty to choose from, and each will add its own personality to your finished product. Next, choose some music. You can upload music of your own that you or your students created in something like Garageband, or you can browse through the library of songs that are built-in to the Animoto editor. Photos and videos can be uploaded directly to the site, or imported from a variety of social media sites. Lastly, you can add text slides, to help tell your story and give context to your media.

At this point, if you wanted, you could render your video and download or share it with others. However, there are a number of tweaks you can make to enhance your video. For instance, the spotlight tool will give more prominence to images you deem worthy of it. You can duplicate slides, rotate them, and change the order of them by dragging and dropping them. You can choose a starting point for your music, and pace your slides to the length of music you chose. After you are done with all the tweaking, you can preview the video to see if it is all that you hoped it would be. If not, simply return to the editing screen and change your style, music, or media until it is perfect. Videos can be downloaded, embedded and shared on social media sites.

So, if you have not tried Animoto recently, or at all, you should definitely take a look to see what is there. Just be sure to sign up for the educator account (a $30 value) because this will remove the 30 second video limit you get with the free accounts. Once signed up, you will be given a class code that you can share with students. When students register for an account, they use this code to get the upgraded education edition of Animoto. Want to create your own student accounts? Animoto has a solution for that too.

Do you use Animoto in your classroom? What do you (or your students) like about it? Feel free to leave a comment below with your experiences.

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Animoto, the popular online video creation service, been around for a while now. In fact it has been "in the works" since 2005. I first used it almost four years ago, and I have revisited it many times since that first experience. Why? Because there are few tools that are quicker, easier to use, and...

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Here is a link with helpful tips.

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This week I received two notes from attendees to a recent conference. Both raved about their new favorite tech tool, Animoto, which lets you take photos and video clips and make a multimedia video in just a few clicks. Here's my favorite part of one of the notes:

Can we just talk about ANIMOTO? Changed my professional life. At this point, I've only used it to make one video....but still. My head is spinning just thinking of all the ways we can use this tool to make our communications better, more effective, and more professional. I'm pretty sure it is going to change my personal life as well.

If I had gotten nothing else out of [the conference], it wouldn't matter. This one tool ALONE will save my company so much time and help us to communicate so much better with our members.

Wow. I love my job.

Animoto is truly simple to use from both a mobile device or your computer. Here are a few of my best practices for making a professional-looking video in minutes.

Give the video a little more variety by highlighting every few pictures rather than having them all appear for the same length of time.

Don't just take pictures - add video clips! You can mute them so that they don't play over the soundtrack.

If you're telling a story with your Animoto, make liberal use of the text slides.

Invest in the $30/year upgrade so you can make videos longer than 30 seconds. It's worth it.

If you want to track video views, hook your animoto account to your YouTube channel so you can upload new videos with just one click.

If you're showing the video on a big screen, pay the $5-10 for a higher quality resolution so it looks great on screen.

Some of the templates do a better job with photos and logos that are not standard photo sizes. Be careful that you don't choose one that crops your pictures.

Stick to the Animoto music library for work projects to avoid copyright infringement issues that might arise if you use music from your own library.

If you want to fine tune a video you've created on your mobile device, just publish the video then go to the Animoto site on your computer. You'll be able to edit a copy.

You can really play around with the speed of the photos and more options with the online app. The mobile apps are for very quick, basic videos.

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Tips and tricks for a great Animoto video

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This week I received two notes from attendees to a recent conference. Both raved about their new favorite tech tool, Animoto, which lets you take photos and video clips and make a multimedia video in just a few clicks. Here's my favorite part of one of the notes: Can we just talk about ANIMOTO?

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This tool is well suited for education because every student has a story to tell , yet not every student can tell a story with paper and pencil.

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This tool is well suited for education because every student has a story to tell , yet not every student can tell a story with paper and pencil.

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Animoto benefits students by letting them tell a story with pictures, music and brief descriptions.

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Animoto benefits students by letting them tell a story with pictures, music and brief descriptions.