My Literacy learning plan is about writing haiku and creating imagery to go along with them. We will use Animoto to create slideshows with images that compliment our haiku. This is the example I created for a haiku that I wrote collaboratively with Jamie and Tessa. Enjoy!

Animoto is pretty easy to use, and I feel confident Grade 5s would be able to use this to personalize their haiku. You can change the text, choose from stock photos or videos, upload your own (which could be scanned artwork), set the time for each slide to display, change the music, trim videos… and on and on. They have a lot of different templates, but I just did this one from scratch. It’s mainly a website for marketing videos but the free trial account is worth checking out. The watermarks will come off if you use the paid version, but for a school assignment right now this is fine with me. I want to play around and make more fun videos!