Wesley Fryer in his podcast “Cartooning Around in Lanuage Arts” sits through a presentation by Malia Triggs. Malia Triggs is a 5th grade language Arts teacher that has been using the Go Animate website in her classroom. Go animate is a website that allows students to make a cartoon with an educational purpose. It is impossible to teach all the standards if we try to teach them separately so why not mix them together? Malia thinks that go animate is a great way to do this. She explains that reading and grading 800 papers is nearly impossible and very stressful. Kids are bored of writing papers and bored of video narratives. Go animate fixes this problem. Mrs. Triggs first establishes a plan and makes a storyboard. She also creates a rubric for the project. Once the students start the project, they are not aloud to get online to make a cartoon until they have met all the guidelines and made their storyboard. Having these strict rules makes the students listen and follow the rules and rubric. Then the students are free to get on goanimate.com and create their cartoon. The teacher can monitor their progress as the go on and create. The website is easy for the kids to follow and they absolutely love it!
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