What is it?
Dvolver is a website where you can make a cartoon comic strip type movie online using pre-made graphics. There are a lot of characters available to choose from, with several background music as well. The students will have to create a conversation between the characters that they chose to create a short movie.
Suitable for:
This movie maker is suitable to be used for students of all level, aged between 7 to 17. The students have the freedom to write in Dvolver creatively, depending on their language level.
Activity Suggestions:
Teachers can use this tool in the classroom, for example, by asking the students to work in pairs, to stimulate communication between students . Besides that, it can also be done as a homework for the students so as to train them to learn language autonomously.
Dvolver is a website where you can make a cartoon comic strip type movie online using pre-made graphics. There are a lot of characters available to choose from, with several background music as well. The students will have to create a conversation between the characters that they chose to create a short movie.
Suitable for:
This movie maker is suitable to be used for students of all level, aged between 7 to 17. The students have the freedom to write in Dvolver creatively, depending on their language level.
Activity Suggestions:
Teachers can use this tool in the classroom, for example, by asking the students to work in pairs, to stimulate communication between students . Besides that, it can also be done as a homework for the students so as to train them to learn language autonomously.
The Link:
http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/index.html
Advantages:
1) It is fun, thus the students will be more enthusiastic to learn the language. Not like the usual dry and boring, paper-stuff-exercise, the students will be more excited to participate in classroom activity using the technology. Furthermore, it is free!
2) Dvolver provides context for the students, in which the students themselves choose which one they prefer. Therefore, it will provide freedom for the students to work on their creativity. Besides, the context provided will guide the students to choose and identify appropriate words and expressions to be used in appropriate context.
3) It will help the students to improve their communication skills. They will engage in a lot of discussions with their pairs while creating the movie, hence enabling them to enhance their communication skills.
Disadvantages:
1) Not all schools, especially those in the rural area provide the facilities, either the computers or the internet access, for the students.
2) The students might become too engaged with the technology, hence ignoring the Teacher Talk. Thus, they might miss some important information or instruction given by the teacher.
3) Time consuming: It is quite hard for the teacher to monitor all of the students at the same time.
Regardless the disadvantages that I have mentioned above, I still believe that Dvolver is a very useful tool to be used as an activity in classroom since the students will learn the language not by rules of grammar, but by being spontaneous while engaging in the communication activity as they 'connect' themselves with Dvolver. Therefore, if you need more help and details about Dvolver, you can dig into Russell Stannard's website:
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