{"id":962,"date":"2012-05-09T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/?p=962"},"modified":"2012-05-09T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:08:07","slug":"animoto-ec-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/2012\/05\/09\/animoto-ec-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Animoto E\/C Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know how much everyone enjoyed making their own Animoto video earlier in the year, so I think another one would be an excellent extra-credit opportunity!<\/p>\n<p>The free Animoto accounts (<a href=\"http:\/\/animoto.com\/pricing\">http:\/\/animoto.com\/pricing<\/a>) only allow for 30-second videos, so that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll create. But instead of making one from your own point of view, I want you to choose one of the many characters that we&#8217;ve met this year and make the video that he or she would make! <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you choose Mayella from <em>To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>(or Ruth from <em>The Color of Water <\/em>&#8230; or Steve from <em>Skeeter<\/em> &#8230; or Rainsford from &#8220;The Most Dangerous Game&#8221; &#8230; or Juliet&#8217;s Nurse &#8230; or Brutus &#8230; or Juan from &#8220;The Censors&#8221; &#8230;). The Animoto that you make will be that character&#8217;s video.<\/p>\n<p>You could&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose one point in the story. The video can be like a journal that character is writing.<\/li>\n<li>Use the video as an introduction to the character. (&#8220;I&#8217;ve lived in Verona, Italy, all my life,&#8221; for example.)<\/li>\n<li>Make it a video gift from one character to another.<\/li>\n<li>Use the video as a Christmas card from the character to his\/her friends and family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started, you&#8217;ll need to <a href=\"http:\/\/animoto.com\/pricing\">sign up for a <strong>free <\/strong>Animoto account<\/a>. You can use any themes, video clips, music, and pictures they have available.<\/p>\n<p>An <strong><em>awesome <\/em><\/strong>Animoto following these criteria will be worth <strong>50 extra-credit points<\/strong> on this (last!) six-weeks. To get credit, you&#8217;ll need to <strong>post a link to your video <\/strong>in the comments on this page <strong>by Wednesday, May 16th<\/strong>. To do so:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Play your video. <\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Sharing&#8221; on the top right of the video. <\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Copy Link&#8221; to copy the URL. <\/li>\n<li>Paste (Ctrl + V) the URL in the comments box below.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Happy Videoing!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know how much everyone enjoyed making their own Animoto video earlier in the year, so I think another one would be an excellent extra-credit opportunity! The free Animoto accounts (http:\/\/animoto.com\/pricing) only allow for 30-second videos, so that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/2012\/05\/09\/animoto-ec-opportunity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,81],"tags":[98,21,26],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing","tag-extra-credit","tag-reading-assignments","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everysecondofeveryday.com\/mrshawke\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}