I was feeling overwhelmed just knowing that I had to create my first animation, but after reading Richardson's book, listening to the tutorials on atomic learning, and Alice I started to feel more at ease. I did try to use Alice to create an animation, but then a colleague of mine recommend another site; goanimate.com.
Goanimate.com is a very friendly user site and it's free! This is a great site to use with your students that are not very technology savvy. It was very easy to create characters and maneuver them around. I was able to easily add captions, and include music as well. One thing that I really liked about it was how I could keep previewing and editing it. It did take me a while to finally finish it, but I really think it was due to it being my first time playing around with it. The only problems that I had was downloading into my computer, and keeping it 5-10 seconds. I finally was able to do it after many trials and errors.
I plan on integrating animation into my reading and writing lessons. I know my students are really going to enjoy it! I
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