The document discusses Go!Animate, a web tool that allows users to create animated videos. It can be used to increase student creativity and engagement. Go!Animate Basic is free and allows short videos while Go!Animate for Schools costs $355 for 5 teachers and 200 students and provides a secure site with more features. The tool allows teachers to create instructional videos or have students demonstrate their learning through animated videos. It provides a safe environment for students to be creative with limited characters and scenes.

1. Presentation by
Vickie Cochran
Waynette Helms
Inga Schorn

2.  A web tool used to
create high interest
animated videos that
increases creativity and
critical thinking skills
resulting in increased
student achievement
 Video: Introduction to
Go!Animate

3.  Go!Animate Basic allows the user to create
short, animated videos to communicate ideas
and information.

4.  Easy to use! Start by choosing either Quick
Video Maker or Full Video Maker.

5. Next, we choose a theme.

6. Follow the prompts on the screen to select
setting and actors!

7. Animated video creators can use text-to-speech or
record their own voice for character dialogue.

8. Free Go!Animate Basic Membership includes
limited characters, scenes, and privacy.

9. $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.

10.  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

11.  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

12.  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

13. Go!Animate.com GoAnimate4Schools.com
• Geared toward adult users.Can be • More appropriate for the K-12
used in school bit may have school environment.
inappropriate elements that must • Teachers and students get a
be monitored. private page to login to the site.
• Make videos for fun at no charge • The teacher and students are the
with the Basic account! Includes 2 only ones that have access to the
minutes per animation. page.
• Businesses can get an account • As mentioned before, the teacher
starting at $39 a month. Includes has the ability to create groups so
unlimited producing and younger students cannot see older
downloading. students’ work.

14. Teachers can create videos for use as a review,
remediation, or instructional tool to share with the
whole class or individual students.
Review of Periodic Table
Students can also make their own video to
demonstrate mastery. They love to share their
creation with their peers!
Dividing Decimals

15. Students today have never known a time without the
internet. They use it daily at home and rely on the internet
for information and communication. Teachers that do not
use multiple technologies are creating an unrealistic and
disconnected learning setting. 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.