I thought the Animoto site was easy to use and very effective. I think it would be a great alternative to PowerPoint for certain projects. Currently, I have a student working on a Geologic Time Scale on the computer and I showed him the Animoto movie I put together this week and he jumped at the chance to try it out. He liked both the presentation and fact that he could easily add music to the movie. I am excited to see his finished project!
As for Picnik, I personally didn't find it as useful. For my project, I added some "stickers" to a couple of pictures and added a neon effect to the lab coat, along with a frame on the diet Coke bottle. I think students could find more use for this program than I could, I just have never been into altering pictures other than cropping them.
Overall, I was glad I got the chance to work with the three different programs presented this week. It is always nice to see what is available to us because it seems like the number of programs on the internet are so huge. Picnik and Freemusic were okay, but not really anything I got too excited about. Animoto is a program that I can see my students using immediately if I can get them on computers.
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