Animoto IDEAS!

Monster Attack! 
A monster is on the loose and attacking your town or city! 

Let students get creative by using Animoto to make their 

very own monster-related news stories. Have students use 

a paint application, or encourage them to do a public domain 

and/or Creative Commons search. Then, ask them to invent their 

own monster stories framed in the context of a hard news multimedia 

package.

Ask students to narrate their projects as they play, reading from a script 

that they've prepared. Is there an alien invasion? Is Sasquatch rooting 

through dumpsters? Did somebody bring carnivorous dinosaurs back to life? 

This is a great activity for pairs of students to complete together. 

My Favorite Thing
Have students use Animoto to talk about their absolute most favorite thing. 

This activity works as a Web 2.0 "show and tell" while giving students the 

chance to talk about something passionately. Give students several minutes 

to verbally set up their projects, making the case for why their 30 seconds was 

well spent on the subject matter, and why they chose the content that they did 

for the multimedia presentation.