Our 9th grade English students used GoAnimate to create visual versions of a written argument. They wrote an essay taking a position on who was responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet; they used GoAnimate for a visual version for presentation. CCSS asks students to write arguments and to present their findings. GoAnimate allows students an engaging way to present their findings to the class using technology. Pairing the use of technology and writing in an assignment allows students to be better prepared for both college and career.

One major focus in my classroom this year has been reflecting on and synthesizing our learning. Because of that, each of my students has an ePortfolio where they can show off their work and write a reflection on the process. Since we typically reflect on our learning through words, I thought it would be fun to try to reflect orally for a change!

GoAnimate offers students an excellent platform to pose questions and respond with answers since characters interact within a scene. It also works great for the teacher to provide students with several questions that they respond to.

GoAnimate for Schools friend and evanglist Olga Schrivner recently presented “Fun and Motivation through Animation” at the World Language Festival at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

We are thrilled to share this blog post covering her presentation by James Scrivner (NortonHealthcare) and Olga Scrivner (Associate Instructor in French, Indiana University).

For Olga’s complete presentation, please click here.

Our vision for learning at our school is to create a classroom environment that is collaborative and creative. We value the idea that technology, and it’s integration into the classroom, must be purposeful. The concept of digital storytelling pervades all content areas and is peppered throughout the Common Core, and I was looking for a tool that would allow students to tell a story that was interactive and engaging. We have found GoAnimate for Schools to be a tool that provides a simple, yet intuitive platform for storytelling.

When you look up the word “engaging” in the dictionary, you will find it’s spelled, “G-o-a-n-i-m-a-t-e.” Nah, just kidding, but GoAnimate for Schools really is that good!

I discovered GoAnimate for Schools during the 2011-2012 school year, and I have been a huge fan ever since. GoAnimate for Schools does just what the name implies, it allows students the ability to animate whatever they like, and boy is it fun!

McCombs Middle School in Des Moines, IA. Staff and students create a video to prepare for the Iowa Assessments. This is not an original song, the music is from the song “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore. The lyrics have been changed to highlight testing goals: