Go Animate

Margaret VassICT Curriculum Support Officer

Falkirk Council Education Services

About Go!Animate

•GoAnimate.com is a website that enables the simple creation of computer animated stories.

•The site offers simple features that provide users with a multitude of possibilities for customising their animations.

The Library

• The site provides users with a library of characters, backgrounds, props, sound effects and music for use in creating their own unique animations.

Sharing Go!Animate

•Users can also upload their own objects like pictures or drawn images to use in their animated movies.

•The movies that Go Animate users create can be shared in a variety of ways including email and embedding in a blog, wiki or website.

Using Go!Animate

Pupils can use Go Animate to:

•tell stories and make presentations.

•make animated book reports.

•illustrate a story that they have written in class.

•Illustrate a story that they have read.

•Plan a story before writing it.

•Learn about direct speech.

Go!Animate can help motivate pupils by:

• catering for a variety of learning styles

• allowing children to work in mixed ability groupings and learn from each other

•providing a ‘fun’ environment for learning

•helping under achievers to experience success