Go+Animate

Go Animate: Creating dialogue for cartoons

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__** Using Go Animate in the classroom: **__
 * Go Animate is a fantastic resource to find! The characters even speak Spanish, and do it very well. I think this would appropriate for me to use in the classroom, or to introduce for my students to use for assignments and projects:
 * I often have my Spanish students (all levels) create and participate in mini-conversations, from simple introductions to more in-depth topic coverage. The Go Animate cartoons will enliven the process for the students.
 * The Go Animate scene that I chose made me think of the possibilities of creating conversations based on vocabulary words. In Spanish IV, vocabulary tests are organized by topic (such as wildlife). I could create an assignment requiring the students to invent dialogue that incorporates a minimum number of vocabulary words and/or grammar topics.
 * In Spanish 1 we learn what I call "critical questions"--things that my students should be able to discuss with their peers in Spanish: name, age, likes/dislikes, class schedule, etc. At the end of the year, the final exam consists of knowing these approximately 100 questions. I can see creating mini Go Animate cartoons for each of the critical questions through the year, and then archiving them on our class wiki for the students to access and review at any time. The characters can ask and answer the critical questions, but also could lapse into English to explain what a question meant, or how to adjust the answer. I can even make this an ongoing assignment, alternating whose turn it is to create the cartoon for the current set of critical questions.