Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.

Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text.

Creates videos from your photos. Import pictures from Facebook,Flickr or computer,and adds music and text to it.Export to YouTube or Facebook, embed it on your blog or webpage, or just share the link. Easy to use.

To create a video in Pixorial you can upload pictures and raw video footage then organize that media into the sequence in which you want it to appear. You can insert transitions between elements by selecting them from the transitions gallery. If you would like to add a soundtrack to your production you can select one from the Pixorial gallery or upload your own audio files. Pixorial also makes it easy to add text to each picture or video that you upload. Just click on "overlay text" in the video editor when you're viewing the element that you want to add text to. Pixorial offers a free plan to educators. (Free Tech for Teachers)

Grab videos, pictures, text paragraphs from any source and turn them into short movies.

Users upload their raw video footage via Magisto's web app or iPhone app and Magisto automatically analyzes it. State of the art computer vision technology detects and indexes people, scenes and behaviors, understanding the difference between people, pets, landscapes, toys and more. This artificial intelligence is used to edit together a video of all the most interesting parts of the footage, complete with effects, transitions and music. Magisto also stabilizes the video footage and removed excess "noise" to make user footage look as good as possible.

Once videos have been produced they can be shared in one click via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or email.

Weavly provides a simple drag and drop interface that allows you to search for, trim and combine tracks without ever leaving the Weavly site. You can mix together video and audio from YouTube, Vine, and SoundCloud. You can also add animated GIFs from Loopcam, Tumblr, and Imgur. To start creating your Weavly video perform a search for video content. When you find a video clip that you like drag it to the Weavly editor where you can adjust the start and end times of the clip. Then move on to adding sounds by search for sounds and draggin them to the Weavly editor where you can again trim the start and end times. Finally, you can add some animated GIFs by searching for them and dragging them into the editor. You can repeat all of these steps as many times as you like to create your video. (Free Tech for Teachers)

Very powerful. Share, embed, put on DVD, show on Tivo. Nice templates and audio. Create and share up to 30 seconds for free.

Turns your video clips, photos, music and text into videos. Choose a theme. Upload photos and videos from your computer, or import directly from Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr or Picasa. Add text and music. You can also add maps. Stupeflix also has text to speech capabilites.

Mix your photos, videos text and music to create 60-second videos. Fast & easy. You can upload images from your computer to Flixtime, or select stock photos from the Media Lounge. Then upload your own music, or choose from the stock music collection. To create a text slide, simply click "Add Text Slide", and enter your text in the "main text" and "subtext" fields.

Allows users to create movies from any group of static pictures and turn them into a video.

Collaborative video producting and editing tool. Invite everyone in your social network to upload their photos and video clips. Invite others to upload their videos and pictures, put them together with Memplai’s video editing tools, then send it out to view and share!

Create slideshow videos using your favorite photos and music and share them quickly with your friends on all popular social websites.

Upload your photos, then add a theme, music & captions.

Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos.

Richard Byrne describes this YouTube alternative to other video generators and delineates the steps to creating your own. "YouTube Photo Slideshows allow you to specify the length of time that each image is displayed for. After uploading your images you can use the annotations tool to add as much text as you like to each frame of your video."

WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. In the video editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes WeVideo collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you. The WeVideo Google Drive app allows you to save all of your video projects in your Google Drive account. WeVideo also offers an Android app that students can use to capture images and video footage to add to their projects. (via Free Tech for Teachers)

PowToon is a nice service for creating explanatory videos through a drag and drop process. The videos that you create feature digital paper cut-outs on a colorful background. Think of PowToon as an online tool for creating videos in the style made popular by Common Craft. PowToon provides drawings of people and objects that you can arrange on blank canvas. After adding your narration to the arrangement you can publish your video. PowToon's free version limits your videos to 45 seconds. Education pricing available: http://www.powtoon.com/pricing/edu/ (Free Tech for Teachers)

Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor then setting the sequence of animations. Each element can be re-used as many times as you like and the timing of the animation of each image can individually adjusted. Wideo's stock elements include text, cartoons, and drawings. You can also upload your own images and audio files to use in your videos. (Free Tech for Teachers)

Muvee Cloud is a collaborativel online space where you can easily share and view photos and video with those you choose to invite. Simply sign up and invite friends and family to view and contribute their photos and video to each album you've created. You can also create fun home movies (we call them muvees) to share on muvee Cloud and post them to your blogs, Facebook and other social media sites.

GoAnimate is a suite of web applications that lets you make animated videos easily. It enables all users to quickly and easily produce videos using drag and drop tools. Quick Video Makers are template-based solutions which allow users to complete a finished video in a matter of minutes. Full Video Makers provide the user with full creative control over the characters, backgrounds, props, music, sound effects and scene transitions. GoAnimate provides asset libraries containing thousands of characters, backgrounds, props, etc. – everything needed to complete a video. You can also import your own external elements, such as sound files, images, photos or video clips. An education/classroom version is available with pricing based on the number of students.

Xtranormal turns your words into a 3D animated movie. Xtranormal helps you create amazing interactive stories with a few clicks and a little imagination. Ta-da! You're instantly an animator, poet, pundit, educator or comic. Couldn't be easier. Education version and pricing available at http://www.xtranormal.com/edu/

Richard Byrne's original post from which descriptions of several of the above tools were taken. Subscribe to his excellent blog at http://www.freetech4teachers.com