How to Use GoAnimate in Classrooms

A Joke from Lovely Animals by chuxiaoxuan on GoAnimate


I used GoAnimate to create comic strips. It is more complicated than the photo story tool Animoto. Because of some technical problems, I tried two templates to finish this task. The first one was Lil’ Peepz, in which a user was asked to go through 17 steps from choosing background, adding a character and his/her actions and voice, making the character move and adding new scenes. Maybe because this template occupied too much memory, the website shut down. When I tried to reedit, I couldn’t load the autosaved video. Because it was time-consuming to start over the whole procedure, I had to choose another one, and I went to the template called Wildlife. The procedure to make comic strips with Wildlife is comparatively simple in 4 steps as the picture shows.

With this experience, I can put this tool into teaching practice for different level language learners. For intermediate and higher level students, I can combine the topic of comic strips with some grammar points. For instance, if the task is about past tense, the students are asked to create a story or a dialogue depicts events or actions happened in the past. While for beginner level students, I’ll use the simple template, such as Wildlife, to produce free topic comic strips to arouse their learning enthusiasm.