Journeys

As part of our Language Arts unit that focuses on characters’ journeys, students will use animoto.com to create a video that shows a journey they have been on or would like to go on in their life. The video will include images, text, and music, all of which will help describe their journey. I will provide some specific guidelines to help them with ideas for the type of information to include in their videos, such as mode(s) of transportation, distance of journey, stops along the way, items to bring on their journey, feelings about their journey, etc. Each video should include at least 3 images, as well as 5 slides that include descriptive text. Students’ final videos will be posted on our class blog so others can view and comment on them.

Students will also need to write a short description for each image they chose, explaining why they chose this picture of all the images available. Students will also explain why they chose the song for their video.