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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.
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Presentation by Vickie Cochran WaynetteHelms Inga Schorn 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 • 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!AnimateBasic Membership includes limited characters, scenes, and privacy.
How much will Go!Animate for Schools cost? $355.00 Go!Animatefor 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
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.