GoAnimate.com is a free online animation tool that lets you create and share animations, eMessages and slideshows with your friends and other Go Animate users. Go Animate is a flexible service that provides easy-to-use tools, templates ,and elements to quickly create animated movies with both text-based and audio dialogues. At this time, they offer five templates: Star Trek, Street Fighter, Go Animate, Akon, and Saturday Morning TV. You can, however, import your own images and sounds. Included in these templates are characters, dialogue bubbles, backgrounds, props & costumes, music/sounds, and special effects. Cost is always a concern for educators and their institutions, as well as for learners. Go Animate would be a great asset to the classroom. This tool can be useful for the creation of dialogue in projects. The student can collaborate with others to create these dialogues which helps promote team building. Using this tool is more interesting to the student and provides opportunity for increased engagement among the students. As an art teacher, it would be enlightening to see how creative the students can be in both the animation and the language aspects of cartoon making. Since Go Animate allows for easy sharing and viewing of others productions, it will be easy for students to offer online critiquing.
Go Animate. (2009). Anyone can animate. Retrieved from http://goanimate.com
POSTED BY Q AT 6:49 PM
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brborders said...
This looks like a great program that you found. I can see my students in a group setting using this to create their own story. I like the part where they can add the music and sound. The fact that it is free is the best part for students and educators.
OCTOBER 18, 2009 8:35 PM
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