Kleinspiration Guest Post - GoAnimate

A big thank you to Erin from Kleinspiration for allowing me the opportunity to guest post about GoAnimate on her fantastic blog! View the post directly, click HERE. Kleinspiration is one of my favourite 'go to' blogs for ideas and 'inspiration'!

Also, just to let you know - I've updated my Tech Tutorials page and you can now learn all about Wikispaces and GoAnimate, for use in the classroom.

Reciprocal Teaching Animations

As part of our whole school professional development this year, there has been a major focus on Reciprocal Teaching. We explored in depth the strategies of predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising.

I discovered an online program called GoAnimate that allows you to create animations. You can buy the full version, however, you are able to access part of the site on the free version (which is what I used to make the following animations). There is also a education version for students to use, as well, with more 'kid friendly' scenes and characters.

Using the program, I created animations to introduce the reciprocal teaching strategies. Feel free to use them in your classroom as appropriate :)

PREDICTING

Predicting Animation by Mrs Brien on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.

CLARIFYING

Clarifying by Mrs Brien on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.

QUESTIONING

Questioning by Mrs Brien on GoAnimate

Animated Presentations - Powered by GoAnimate.

SUMMARISING

Summarising Animation by Mrs Brien on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.