Screenshot of the Animoto homepageanimoto.com

Animoto (animoto.com) is a Web 2.0 tool that allows students to make video slideshows from their pictures. It can connect to various social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and is available for free.

One downside to this tool is that the terms of service (http://animoto.com/legal/terms) indicate that one must be 13 years old to use the service. This would limit the use of this tool for my grade range to being suitable for grade 8 students. On a positive note this tool would reduce learning barriers of individuals who cannot express their knowledge through words allowing them to create collages in a video format. In the classroom this could also be a handy tool to create visual timelimes for events or novels, allowing students to have a visual representation of written work. 

This tool could be integrated as a substitution on the SAMR model as it doesn't really serve a functional change to the material being presented.