Day+3+Create+an+Animoto+Movie

toc =Introduction= Animoto is a software package that can be used to create movies by teachers for instruction and students for submissions. This program allows the user to add photos, drawings, screen shots, and text to produce a movie to share with others. “Where possible, include relevant visuals to illustrate the steps. For example, when demonstrating how to enter a formula into an Excel spreadsheet, a screen shot of a spreadsheet with data provides a relevant visual.” (Clark & Mayer, 2011, p. 235). This program allows you to include screen shots along with customized visuals, you can produce a movie that is both informative and entertaining for better student retention. Students can then create a movie to demonstrate their understanding of a topic. =Audience= The audience for this topic is geared towards those that teach graphs and charts to high school and adult students. It can be adapted for lower grade levels.

Prerequisite
Participants should have an intermediate understanding of creating graphs and charts, if you need to refresh your skills refer to the Resources page in this support wiki. =Objective= Demonstrate creating advanced charts and graphs using Animoto.

**Activity 1**
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Questions

 * 1) How can you use Animoto in your classroom?
 * 2) What types of data do your students work with where a chart would helpful for display?
 * 3) Do you feel your students would use Animoto? If not, how can you motivate them?

**Activity 2**
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 * 1) Open a New Excel workbook and type the following data :
 * 1) Highlight the data, and press the function key **F11**.
 * 2) Click a series bar for **Flu** to select all in that series. (You’ll see a small square box in each series marker.)
 * 3) Click the **Design** tab, in the **Type** group, choose **Change Chart Type**.
 * 4) Choose the **Line with Markers** type.
 * 5) Click the chart to deselect the line.
 * 6) Click the **Layout** tab, in the **Analysis** group click the arrow below **Trendline** and select **Linear Trendline.**
 * 1) Create an **Animoto** movie to display in your classroom.

Follow-up Practice
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 * 1) Teach your students to create a customized chart for your subject matter.
 * 2) Ask your students to create an Animoto movie to show their work.