Presentation by Vickie Cochran Waynette Helms Inga Schorn

A web tool used to create high interest animated videos that increases creativity and critical thinking skills resulting in increased student achievement

Video: Introduction to Go!Animate

Go!Animate Basic allows the user to create short, animated videos to communicate ideas and information.

Easy to use! Start by choosing either Quick Video Maker or Full Video Maker.

Next, we choose a theme.

Follow the prompts on the screen to select setting and actors!

Animated video creators can use text-to-speech or record their own voice for character dialogue.

Free Go!Animate Basic Membership includes limited characters, scenes, and privacy.

$355.00 Go!Animate for Schools Membership allows for 5 teachers and 200 students access to secure site and a large number of characters and scene selection.

Each implementation is a private,

secure “wall garden” Student videos cannot be found

from the public internet Student videos cannot be published

publicly, without teacher approval School home page cannot be found

unless specific address is known Students cannot surf public video

sites from within G4S No integration with social networks Go!Animate never takes student

email addresses or contact information

All characters, backgrounds, props, etc. are school-safe. Guns, alcohol, etc. are filtered out

Teachers may opt to pre-moderate all student work prior to publishing to ensure appropriate language, imagery, and terminology

Teachers can divide the students into classes and/or workgroups

Student video distribution can be limited to the class/group from which they are published

Great way to block younger kids from seeing the videos of older kids

Go!Animate.com

• Geared toward adult users.Can be used in school bit may have inappropriate elements that must be monitored.

• Make videos for fun at no charge with the Basic account! Includes 2 minutes per animation.

• Businesses can get an account starting at $39 a month. Includes unlimited producing and downloading.

GoAnimate4Schools.com

• More appropriate for the K-12 school environment.

• Teachers and students get a private page to login to the site.

• The teacher and students are the only ones that have access to the page.

• As mentioned before, the teacher has the ability to create groups so younger students cannot see older students’ work.

Teachers can create videos for use as a review, remediation, or instructional tool to share with the whole class or individual students.

Review of Periodic Table

Students can also make their own video to demonstrate mastery. They love to share their creation with their peers!

Dividing Decimals

Students today have never known a time without the internet. They use it daily at home and rely on the internet for information and communication. Teachers that do not use multiple technologies are creating an unrealistic and disconnected learning setting. According to Greenhow, Hughes, and Robelia (2009): Today’s youth are frequently creative, interactive, and media oriented; use Web 2.0 technologies in their everyday lives; and believe that more use of such technologies in school would lead to increased preparation and engagement (p. 247). Greenhow, C., Hughes, J., & Robelia, B. (2009). Learning, teaching, and scholarship in a digital age web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? Educational Researcher, 38, 245-259.