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.
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
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.
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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