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| GoAnimate homepage |
With GoAnimate, a two-dimensional animation tool, users can animate their own stories. Teachers could use GoAnimate to demonstrate lesson concepts, model procedures, explicitly teach students social skills, or demonstrate experiments that may be too dangerous or expensive to do in the classroom. Students could use their animations to demonstrate their understanding, express their thoughts, or reflect, analyze, and synthesize new information in a way that allows their creativity.
Each user develops a personalized profile where their animations are stored and displayed. Other users can check out the published animations, make comments, and share them with others.
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| Mr. August's Profile |
GoAnimate allows users to demonstrate and practice many of the different intelligences and could be used as an alternative assignment to the written paper or the physical project. For example, they use their verbal/linguistic intelligence as the students add text or speech, their spatial intelligence as they organize each piece on the screen, their kinesthetic intelligence as they manipulate the objects and utilize the features of the tool, their interpersonal or intrapersonal intelligence as they work with others or alone.
GoAnimate is like the storyboard that special education teachers frequently use to help their students understand and learn appropriate behavior, except with this tool the storyboard can be more detailed because of the animation. A nice feature is that animations can be saved and published to refer to and adjust later as needed.
Special education students can virtually practice their social skills in a safe environment where they can get feedback before they take them into the classroom. GoAnimate animations could be used as an option for students who struggle with verbal or writing skills to demonstrate their understanding of course concepts.
GoAnimate is a great resource and has many features available for free, but there are many more resources that require GoPoints and GoBucks that can be purchased or earned by completing different tasks such as publishing, sharing, and inviting others to join GoAnimate. It has great potential for learning but it also has great potential for distraction, as students (or teachers) might get distracted completing the tasks to earn GoBucks and not finish the animations they’re working on.
It is also important to note that GoAnimate is a public tool and not created specifically for classroom use - some materials published there are not appropriate for school or all audiences, prescreen animations before showing in class.
It is also important to note that GoAnimate is a public tool and not created specifically for classroom use - some materials published there are not appropriate for school or all audiences, prescreen animations before showing in class.
Check out this example of what one user has created with GoAnimate:
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