July 2012
I wanted to
trial a web cartoon site. I had heard it
mentioned at ISTE as a free web tool.
How to tutorial - Go!Animate
How to tutorial - Go!Animate
The
opportunity was following the school wide Olympics in week 4.
1.
We
wrote a script of the highlights including questions to help make the conversation
flow – in pairs
2.
Through
the Go!Animate website chn choose a background, characters, voice or can record
their own voice
3.
We
entered these as text which was then turned into spoken text (children could
choose their style of voice)
4.
Preview,
go back and edit if need be, save and share via email to me – link or embed in
class blog
A great
simple, motivating website to use
BUT:
1.
You
have to make this cartoon in one sitting – it cannot be re-edited once you have
left the site – so make sure you get it right before the chn leave their page
2.
Took
a while to get 12 pairs from drafting on paper, editing, writing text,
re-editing, saving and sharing – teacher intensive
3.
To
record chn’s own voices you need a microphone and our classroom computers do
not have microphones so you need to use eternal microphones = fiddly!
4.
Some
themes are too mature – need to choose carefully
Next steps:
I would use
this website again – it was, easy, quick and fun
Find other
opportunities to use in the class
Set up class
programme to allow for each pair to finish their cartoon in one sitting
Spend time
evaluating our last cartoons so that we improve
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