I figured that since that I love Toondoo so much, that maybe there was also a Web 2.0 tool out there that would let my students do animation. I found more than a couple. Most of them required some kind of fee, but I was able to find a couple that were free. DoInk was probably the one with the most options for customizing. You start off with a completely blank screen and get to draw whatever it is that you need. This would be great for someone who has a lot of experience with graphics programs such as Adobe or Corel but for most of my 5th graders would be beyond their abilities. Another tool I found is Go!Animate. This tool was much easer for someone new to animation, much more of a drag and drop approach, but they have fewer options for customizing unless you want to add a few dollars to your account. I think Futurama was probably one of my favorites when it comes to animation and the characters on Go!Animate look like this popular TV show. The ability to animate is made easy by breaking the animation into small clips and right clicking on each element to add some preset animation to it. Another thing I liked about this tool was the ability to bring in your pictures or sounds to add to your clip. I think overall this tool is what I was looking for when thinking about my students. It will be a little more challenging than ToonDoo, but, I am looking forward to seeing what they can do with it next year.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
BP9_20100617_Web 2.0 T3-Go!Animate
I figured that since that I love Toondoo so much, that maybe there was also a Web 2.0 tool out there that would let my students do animation. I found more than a couple. Most of them required some kind of fee, but I was able to find a couple that were free. DoInk was probably the one with the most options for customizing. You start off with a completely blank screen and get to draw whatever it is that you need. This would be great for someone who has a lot of experience with graphics programs such as Adobe or Corel but for most of my 5th graders would be beyond their abilities. Another tool I found is Go!Animate. This tool was much easer for someone new to animation, much more of a drag and drop approach, but they have fewer options for customizing unless you want to add a few dollars to your account. I think Futurama was probably one of my favorites when it comes to animation and the characters on Go!Animate look like this popular TV show. The ability to animate is made easy by breaking the animation into small clips and right clicking on each element to add some preset animation to it. Another thing I liked about this tool was the ability to bring in your pictures or sounds to add to your clip. I think overall this tool is what I was looking for when thinking about my students. It will be a little more challenging than ToonDoo, but, I am looking forward to seeing what they can do with it next year.
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I’ve been playing around on Go!Animate and really got the Family Guy/Futurama vibe. It was a lot of fun just creating my characters and can really see my more technically savvy third graders getting into this.
ReplyDeleteI was looking at Go!Animate myself! It was a lot of fun. I can see myself using this site as a retelling tool giving students the opportunity to incorporate story elements (i.e., setting, characters, problem, etc.). This was exciting! Thanks Larry!
ReplyDeleteThis is a really awesome tool. As soon as I started watching the tutorial waves of ideas were coming to me on how I can use this in my class.
ReplyDeleteThis will also be a tool that I will experiment with this next school year!! I wish we were in school now!... NO, let me say that again (since I enjoy summers off), I wish we were sharing these blogs DURING the school year so I coul be trying them out with my classes! LOL
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