Today I went (back) along to Carronshore because Primary 5L/W were interviewing some visitors from a local Asda store that’s due to open soon nearby. I suggested to Miss Law that it might be a good idea to use the new Animoto for Education website to produce a video of the event. Unfortunately, we discovered that we couldn’t upload the mp3 file of the interview because we worked out that Animoto needs a music file so that the cool effects can happen to the uploaded images.

Eventually we used Photostory 3 to produce a video podcast of the event. A few minutes were spent uploading this to photobucket. The results can now be seen on the Primary 5L/W blog.

It was frustrating not being able to upload the children’s voices to the Animoto ‘show’- having randomly chosen music accompanying the pictures wouldn’t have had the same effect.

Later this evening, however, I thought about a lovely moment last session when we ‘recorded’ the children in Primary 7V reading their own storybooks to the Primary 2 children in the school. I’ve included it here. The photographs were uploaded to One True Media and a soundrack was added. There’s obvious pride in the older children’s faces as they read their stories ….. and the younger children appear to be a captive audience 🙂