1. Presentation by Vickie Cochran Waynette Helms Inga Schorn

2.  A web tool used to create high interest animated videos.  Video: Introduction to Go!AnimateIntroduction 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.  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

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

14. Teachers can create videos for use as a review or lesson summary. Review of Periodic Table Students can also create their own video to demonstrate mastery. Dividing Decimals

15. 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.