GoAnimate is a cloud-based platform for creating
and distributing animated videos. It allows users to develop both narrative
videos and video presentations. The service is provided on a freemium basis to
consumers, and has multiple subscription levels available for businesses.
As far as I concerned, there are at least three advantages
of using GoAnimate as tool to assist teaching in the classroom.
·Authentic
setting
It is hard to
teach language under a circumstance when a real situation is happened in front
you. But this tool could help teacher to imitate the real situation, and
display it to the whole class. Teaching language under an authentic context makes
learning more meaningful.
·Cartoon
Cartoon is a
good way to catch students’ attention and makes the learning more interesting.
On the other hand, since it is cartoon, the teacher can also make up something funny
but still contain the language points.
·Voices
A powerful function of GoAnimate is
that the teacher can type the content and make the characters speak what have
been typed. So it can also be used to practice the listening.
I designed a dialogue between a man and
a woman. They are in a restaurant. And the story begins when they have finished
their mael…
Pay the bill by Mary Ma on GoAnimate
Very nice job creating your video. A video like this could be used so many ways!
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