GoAnimate is a way to easily create cartoon animations and easily share them with others.
GoAnimate.com:


Make a GoAnimate cartoon on the topic of your career choice for the Language Arts Performance Assessment.


Steps
  1. Watch a quick tutorial that shows how to make a GoAnimate cartoon animation.
  2. Watch this student example: GoAnimate.com: Kristi's Career by KristiLongfield

  3. Sign up for GoAnimate.
  4. Create an animation related to one of your published pieces of writing. For those of you interested in more advanced options, watch some of these tutorials on the Teacher Tube channel.
  5. Have fun.
  6. Save and publish your animation as a public page.
  7. Go back to "My Page" and click on your animation.
  8. From this page retrieve the HTML embed code.
  9. Copy the code and paste it into a new blog post. Write a blog post about your animation and the website GoAnimate.
  10. Copy the URL into the link field of your post.

Your Animation could be:


Include in your animation:
  • Three scenes
  • Two characters
  • Music
  • Props
  • Text in each of the three scenes.
  • Optional (Voice overs)

GoAnimate Checklist


Other Animation sites to try:
http://www.aniboom.com/animachines/ - A Frame-by-Frame Animation Creator
http://fluxtime.com/animate.php - Also A Frame-by-Frame but has Default Characters to use