Tell a story with Go Animate

Go Animate is another great website where pupils can very quickly convert a short typed dialogue into a animated conversation. Simply choose the setting, the characters and write the dialogue to be spoken. The site will generate the speech and animation on the fly.

The site is free at the basic level, although some scenes and characters will require payment. A login will be needed, so you might want to set up a class account.

Finished videos can be linked to or embedded in your blog/VLE. For  a small fee you can download a high quality video file.

Here’s an example video produced to discuss the results of a science investigation. Pupils could use this as an alternative to writing up the experiment in the traditional way. (In this way it’s very similar to Xtranormal).

This could also be used for creating a discussion between two different characters from a novel being studied, or from a period of history. Language settings can also be changed to Spanish which might be of interest to MFL teachers.

It could be used to create a story starter – or as an alternative way of introducing a topic or starting off a lesson.

GoAnimate.com: Chemistry Example by dannynic

You can find out more at GoAnimate.com. There’s lots of uses – have a play and let me know what you do with it!

Could you see this being used by your students? Add a comment below!

There’s lots of uses – have a play and let me know what you do with it!

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