I can make you famous. Well...not really, but I know a video program that can. Come on now. Everyone wants to be a superstar, right? That's the reason we have so many reality shows. Seriously, goAnimate will elevate you from just a "classroom teacher" to Superstar Teacher with the bright red cape. More importantly, this video animation program encourages student engagement, creativity, personalized learning and critical thinking. It is ranked at the top of Bloom's Taxonomy Digital Tools list. Here are ways goAminate can be used in the classroom according to the
Teacher Tools to Unleash Creativity website:
Teachers can use this as a way to present instructions for a lesson or a unit.
Have your students re-create a scene from the text or rewrite and ending of a story.
The students can reflect on a personal experience, personal narrative, or belief statement.
- Use it as a way to remind students of homework and upcoming assignments at the end of the class period.
- Characters can be created to persuade the class to do the right thing, such as to eat healthy and exercise.
- Students can create a television commercial for a product.
- This tool can be used to create a news broadcast for current events or historical events in a social studies class.
- This tool can be used to teach dialogue between two people.
- It could be used to teach movie making skills in a video productions or digital communications class.
These videos can be embedded in Powerpoint, Blogs, Websites, etc. To learn more about this fantastic program, you may visit this website:
http://goanimate4schools.com/public_index. Remember you are a superstar in your own right because you are an educator, one of the most selfless and caring profession in the world. Take a bow!
Below is my goAnimate on Professional Learning Networks.
Intro. PLN by
elllingtonr on
GoAnimate
