Its not very school-friendly and child-safe Users can only do three scenes in the movies Some of the characters are dressed ratherinappropriately for younger children Limited technical support. Its good for digital storytelling in theclassroom The finished movie can be emailed and thecreator receives a HTML code to paste intotheir blog It will truly engage students who likecomics and cartoons Students have the opportunity to becreative without worrying about being web-savvy 18. Its easy, quick and user friendly It promotes the students imagination andcreativity It will contextualize learning Its interactive, engaging and motivating forstudents 17. Animations is also very engaging and isgreat at showing time relationships as theyactually do exist in time. In fact what is great about this website is thatit is so simple and quick to use, but gives veryprofessional looking results which can then beshared.
The best ones couldthen be embedded into class blog or website.Demonstrate time relationships: You can create animations that demonstrate time relationships for teaching tenses. Film festival:Set up your own film competition to see who canproduce the best 3+ scene film. Demonstrate concepts:You or your students can create movies basedaround ideas like fear, happiness, boredom, etc andget other students to guess the concept. These could be jokes that aretranslated from their L1or you could get SS to searchthrough online joke sites to find something they like 14.
Create conversations:You can give your students images of some of the characters + a context background for where they meet and then ask them to brainstorm a conversation between the two characters.Tell jokes:You or your students can use the site to get thecharacters to tell jokes. This can reallyliven up presentations of new language forstudents.Vocabulary examples: - You can ask students to create animations whichincorporate specific language points orvocabulary. Social experience :- You can create movies which demonstrate socialEnglish language points or phrases andexperiences being used in context. Creative way to present important concepts. 9.Embed your movie into a blog or website and share it with your students. preview your movie and send it to friends, yourself or your studentsby email. Add another scene and repeat this process, or you can click to finishthe movie. 5.Click next and add the dialogue for each character. Again click next and then select your characters. click next and then Click on a plot scenario to select it. Select a background and sky images for your film. Go to the Dvolver site and click on the moviemaker image. It is very easy to use and alsoa great tool for your classroom.Ģ. Selecting a rang of charactersbackgrounds and scenarios and adding your owndialogue text bubble. Is a simple tool that enables you to create your ownanimated cartoons. The website is called Dvolver, which is a free moviemaking platform that allows users to employ animated characters to develop concise. If I don't get your email, you can email me this code. When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop she attended. Scene Three: Turkey runs away with elf chasing himĮlf - No, wait, we ordered Kentucy Fried Chicken!Ĭopy the Code and save it somewhere. Turkey - I was thinking, this might be a good year to try something different, than in the past.Įlf - I don't know, we really like poultry, plans have already been made.
Scene Two: Turkey and elf meet in front of fireplace to discuss the holiday mealĭialog: Turkey - Hey Elf, I wanted to discuss the holiday meal with you. turkey, so he will try to talk the elf out of it.ĭialog : Turkey - I need to talk the elf into a different holiday meal. The turkey is concerned about the traditional holiday meal. It is going to star a turkey and an elf (you can look at the character choices to decide who your actors will be, there can be two.) Ok, for an example, let's make a little Christmas video. STEP 2: Write a storyboard for your movie STEP 1: Decide what you want your movie to be about It doesn't do much, but it is kind of fun. It makes simple animations that you can send to friends, or even embed into web-sites.