Discovering Web 2.0 Tools has been exciting to say the least. There are so many available free to use. The only down side was that several of them weren’t up loadable on my Mac. This one caught my interest: “Go! Animate”.
Go! Animate is a tool where you create your own cast using a character creator or pick a character from the existing themes, which are: Cartoon Classics or Monster Mayhem. You tailor the cast to fit your preferences. You can choose from several categories such as: Cartoons, Monsters, Politics (my favorite), full Energy, and Stick Figure.
You can create a skit by animating the characters to: stand, sit, dance, talk, laugh, or frown, etc. Their mouths move and you can add captions. You can change the features and expressions of the characters you create.
I would use this tool to develop a lesson having students use political figures. Find a current event in the news and recreate the event using Go! Animate. Once they have created the news story, I’d have them create another story using the same situation, and change the out come. This lesson would accommodate right and left-brain learners, involve problem solving and critical thinking skills. It would motivate and engage students, therefore relieving boredom, apathy and stress.
This tool will be usable for drama in language Arts which is my area. I will check it out
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