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Go! Animate Presentation by Vickie Cochran Waynette Helms Inga Schorn
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Presentation by Vickie Cochran Waynette Helms Inga S chorn. Go!Animate. What is Go!Animate ?. A web tool used to create high interest animated videos . Video: Introduction to Go!Animate. Go!Animate’s Features. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Go!AnimatePresentation byVickie CochranWaynette HelmsInga Schorn
What is Go!Animate?
A web tool used to create high interest animated videos.
Video: Introduction to Go!Animate
Go!Animate’s Features
Go!Animate Basic allows the user to create short, animated videos to communicate ideas and information.
Go!Animate’s Features
Easy to use! Start by choosing either Quick Video Maker or Full Video Maker.
Go!Animate’s Features
Next, we choose a theme.
Go!Animate’s Features
Follow the prompts on the screen to select setting and actors!
Go!Animate’s Features
Animated video creators can use text-to-speech or record their own voice for character dialogue.
How much will Go!Animate cost?Free Go!Animate Basic Membership includes
limited characters, scenes, and privacy.
How much will Go!Animate for Schools cost?
$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.
Go!Animate For School: Private, Safe & Secure Environment
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
Go!Animate for School: School Safe
Go!Animate ensures that 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
Go!Animate for School: Group Management
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
Who can benefit from Go!Animate?
Go!Animate.com • Geared toward adult
users.• 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.
How will Go!Animate be used?
Teachers can create videos for use as a review or lesson summary. Review of Periodic Table
Students can also create their own video to demonstrate mastery. Dividing Decimals
Why is Go!Animate Necessary?
Students today have never known a time without the internet. They use it daily and rely on the internet for information and communication. 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.
