Make Fun Picture Slide-shows For Free!

Here is a cool website, Animoto, we just discovered, which enables you to make short (30 second) slide shows for free. You can also upgrade for a $30 year subscription that allows you to make longer shows.

Besides just goofing around with our own family pictures since we found it, we have also used it during a therapy session with an autistic child. In our experience, we have seen that some of the special needs children we have worked with enjoy seeing pictures/videos of themselves, and find that very rewarding. Animoto enabled us to do this on the fly, taking pictures during therapy and then with just a few clicks, rewarding the child’s hard work at the end of therapy with a fun slide-show of…himself!!

Here is a sample video we put together – snapshots of Timberdoodle during this current heat wave.

Have fun!!