2. Is a simple tool that enables you to create your own
animated cartoons. Selecting a rang of characters
backgrounds and scenarios and adding your own
dialogue text bubble. It is very easy to use and also
a great tool for your classroom.
3. 1. Go to the Dvolver site and click on the moviemaker image.
4. 2. Select a background and sky images for your film.
5. 3. click “next” and then Click on a plot scenario to select it.
9. 7. Add another scene and repeat this process, or you can click to finish
the movie.
10. 8. preview your movie and send it to friends, yourself or your students
by email.
11.
12. 9.Embed your movie into a blog or website and share it with your
students.
13. Student team projects & presentations .
Creative way to present important concepts.
Great for foreign language courses.
14. Social experience :
- You can create movies which demonstrate social
English language points or phrases and
experiences being used in context. This can really
liven up presentations of new language for
students.
Vocabulary examples:
- You can ask students to create animations which
incorporate specific language points or
vocabulary.
15. 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 the
characters to tell jokes. These could be jokes that are
translated from their L1or you could get SS to search
through online joke sites to find something they like
16. Demonstrate concepts:
You or your students can create movies based
around ideas like fear, happiness, boredom, etc and
get other students to guess the concept .
Film festival:
Set up your own film competition to see who can
produce the best 3+ scene film. The best ones could
then be embedded into class blog or website.
Demonstrate time relationships:
You can create animations that demonstrate time
relationships for teaching tenses.
17. In fact what is great about this website is that
it is so simple and quick to use, but gives very
professional looking results which can then be
shared. Animations is also very engaging and is
great at showing time relationships as they
actually do exist in time.
18. It's easy, quick and user friendly
It promotes the students' imagination and
creativity
It will contextualize learning
It's interactive, engaging and motivating for
students
19. It's good for digital storytelling in the
classroom
The finished movie can be emailed and the
creator receives a HTML code to paste into
their blog
It will truly engage students who like
comics and cartoons
Students have the opportunity to be
creative without worrying about being web-
savvy
20. It's not very school-friendly and child-safe
Users can only do three scenes in the movies
Some of the characters are dressed rather
inappropriately for younger children
Limited technical support .
No audio.
Limited number of scenes and characters.
No controls.
Inability to Edit.