Saturday, October 30, 2010

BP4_GoAnimate





Goanimate.com
This is a wonderful website. Students can use it to show their knowledge of the content. It is great fun to play with while creating something that you can show to your class. You can change characters make them Star Trek, a familiar cartoon or you could just make up someone. The characters are called Lil’Peepz and you are given a few when you start. They can change their clothes to different styles and/ or different colors. You can change the background to anything from a beach, to a seaside road to a living room. You can add or remove items from the room. Like you can delete the couch if you need more room. You can have your character talk the text that you typed or it can be your own voice. You can change your actions from sitting, standing, talking, drop prop, to frighten. Can even change where your character is looking, which way they are facing. You can even make your character slide. Website lets you add music, word bubbles (so you will not need to talk), and all different kind of objects. It even allows you to add in transitions from one scene to the next. This would be a great project to send home with your students. I can see this working in my classroom. The geology unit, weather unit, environmental unit, and solar system unit. Gives me several ideas for projects in the upcoming months. Goanimate does not have to be downloaded it is right on the web so anyone can have access. Courtesy of goanimate.com.

http://goanimate.com/movie/06B-blwu9UV4?utm_source=linkshare

Friday, October 29, 2010

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Tina