Letters+To+Our+Parents



**Parent Letter Via Email and Animoto Video** Students will write a letter to their parents via email along with the Animoto video invitation. Students will highlight special memories by downloading photos and adding text to their video. A special class account will allow each student to create a video and share it with their parents. Students will add music as well from a predetermined list of copyright free songs.

For this project a sample video was created from a variety of photos taken during both 2008 and 2009 school years. I have provided a link to a sample video.

**Project Preparations:**

All photos will be downloaded to each students’ flash drive prior to the project start date. A folder with sixty photos will be provided for each student. All photos will be resized to 400 pixels and saved as Jpegs. The photos will have been taken throughout the school year and consist of a wide variety of special events and highlights of groups activities. Since the photos will be downloaded to a Wiki no names will appear on the photos and the Wiki participants will be invited. The site will not be public.

Music selections from free non restricted sites will also be loaded to the flash drives of each student and previously downloaded to the Wiki. There will be a variety of six songs to use in the Animoto videos. (I don’t recommend letting students have free choice of Animoto music selections as it is too difficult to monitor student choices.)

Sample Video - Second Grade Year Book

Teachers can request a classroom code to compose multiple videos for school projects. This is the response I received a few days after requesting a free account for my classroom.
 * Free Animoto Classroom Account **

Thanks for signing-up to use Animoto in the classroom! Your Classroom Code is: (a 12 digit series of letters and numbers) To learn how to set you and your students up with All-Access via your Classroom Code, go to: [] To download a printable "How-to Use Your Classroom Code" guide for your students, go to: []

About your Classroom Code: * It must be redeemed before January 30th * It gives you and your students 6 months of All-Access * When you'd like a new Classroom Code, re-apply for one at our education site! * When your All-Access runs out, re-apply for a Code at our site, and we'll set you up again!

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