Go Animate

Info about Go Animate

GoAnimate is a cloud-based platform for creating and distributing animated videos. It allows users to develop both narrative videos, in which characters speak with lip-sync and move around, and video presentations in which a voice-over narrator speaks over images and props, which may also move around. The service is provided on a freemium basis to consumers and has multiple subscription levels available for businesses. GoAnimate provides users with drag-and-drop tools that the company's website indicates can be used to access thousands of character models, backdrops, and other assets to create scenario-based videos - like political videos depicted during the 2012 presidential campaign. The platform offers text-to-speech character voices with customizable environments.

GoAnimate can be used as a fun way to introduce or reinforce concepts. Makes the platform for delivering content different instead of having just power points.  It gives the students another mode of expressing what they know. It also helps to have students really reflect on what they want to say and what point they have to get across (this due to the limit of words and time). Makes learning fun. Teachers can create animations for any grade level. Student creation level would be 4th grade and up. Does require some learning to use the tools. Of course, you know your students if you feel they can handle and work with it then go for it. Never stop the creativeness.

Do it yourself!

Let’s get started! Click on this link to create your own animation… http://goanimate.com/

      1) To create your video click on  Make a video – start from scratch

     2) To start your video select the background by clicking on the pictures on the left

   3) Once you selected the backround, choose the character. Click on the character and move it where you want

    4) By clicking on each character you can add voice. On the left, there are four options

   5) Add the props you want to include. By clicking on them you can change the size.

   

       















6) Choose the font of text and the bubbles you want to include in the video

        



















     7) You can choose background music for your video. Select one form the list

  8) Once you finish your first scene, click on “Add scene.” You can add a new blank scene or use the current with the modifications you want 

 9) Once you add all the scene you want, you are ready to preview the movie.

It's your turn!

To do an activity click on this link: Activity

References:

Vincent P (2013) A-Z Tools & Technologies: GoAnimate from: http://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/moodle/2013/10/23/a-z-tools-technologies-goanimate/