1. Web 2.0 Tools GoAnimate For Schools
By: T. Sue Ulrey
EDUC 5306 – Educational Applications of Technology
Houston Baptist University
Dr. Justin T. Burris
25 February 2015

2. GoAnimate For Schools

3. GoAnimate GoAnimate For Schools. Is an online video maker
Is used by businesses to create advertisements
Is available free for a two week trial period
Has a version with reduced rates for teachers and for schools called:
GoAnimate For Schools.

4. With GoAnimate you can create your own original videos:
Choose backgrounds
Choose characters
Add characters
Control the characters
Make the characters act
Make the characters speak
Make the characters move – including walk off screen
Add scenes
Add props
Add music
Modify previous scenes
Preview scenes
Edit & update
Save & share your video

5. Students can use this tool to create their own stories online.
They can make up original stories to:
Entertain
Express themselves and their creativity
Explain a recently learned concept
Demonstrate knowledge
They can present their animations in the classroom.
They can share their animations with their friends.

6. Students can use GoAnimate in all subject areas in elementary & secondary education:
To demonstrate historical events or present different cultures in Social Studies
To explain concepts or demonstrate processes & computations in Math
To write original stories or present research in Language Arts
To demonstrate knowledge or results of experiments in Science
To express themselves in Visual or Performing Arts
To discuss rules and needed skills in Athletics
As a creative expression in any subject

7. Tutorial for creating with GoAnimate

8. Step 1: Click on Make A Video Then Select a Theme
Themes vary in amount of versatility

9. Step 2:
Choose a background
Or a scene

10. Step 3:
Choose characters & props
Add actions & expressions

11. Step 4:
Add text
And music
Or sound effects
If you wish

12. Step 5:
Add actions
&
dialogue

13. Step 6:
You can preview your video at any time.

14. Step 7: Save & Share
When you have finished creating your video, you can name it, select a thumbnail, and save. You can still go back to edit. Then if you wish, you can share it with a group.

15. I created two short videos
About symmetry & transformations
For 7th grade math

16. Transformations & Symmetry a short explanation of what transformation means

17. Symmetry & Transformations a pictorial demonstration of what symmetry, reflection, translation, & rotation mean