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These kinds of movies are great to use with students as they are short and engaging and a lot of the communicative message is covered by the visual aspect, so you can even exploit many of these videos with lower level language learners.
There's a section of the site called 'Produce' which has series of animated movies that have been created for the site, so you could use these to build up a series of lessons for your students.
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I also really like the 'Create' section which has a couple of nice tools to get students creating their own short animated movies and gifs.
One is called 'Shapeshifter' and it's a free online software for creating 2D animation. There's a video tutorial here showing how it works: Shapeshifter tutorial
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The other is called 'Micro-Smotion' and it allows students to create animations using their webcam. They can then post these to blogs, Facebook etc or email them to friends.
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There are even some free basic lessons in animation on Animate 101
So lots to do on Aniboom and well worth a visit. As with any website, be sure to check anything you use with your students before letting them see it.
Hope you enjoy this site.
Related links:
- Text to Speech Movies for EFL ESL
- Make you own animated movies
- Extending a Sentence
- Creating audio-visual monologues
- Exploiting two computer-based RPGs
- Animating vocabulary
- Exploiting Image Sequences
Nik Peachey
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