All that Animoto does is turn pictures and music into slideshows. The people at Animoto are interested in finding out how educators could make the most of their service so they are offering free access to entire classrooms. (Animoto is only free for up to 30 seconds.)

If you are interested, we'd like to give you a "Classroom Code" that'll give each of your students a free All-Access pass (unlimited full-length videos for a whole year) upon signing up with this code. And you can use Animoto with your students however you wish. Keep in mind that videos can be viewed full-screen for classroom presentations. - Animoto: Education -

I tried it out and it really takes just a few minutes to create a slideshow. All the time is spent figuring out which pictures and music to use. In a way, it is almost too easy. The creators have very little control over the end result - the server software does most of the work. But the results are very good: