Dvolver MovieMaker (http://www.dvolver.com/) is website where you can customize your own animation of your choice. You can design your own scene by choosing provided background, plots, characters, background music and adding dialogues.
7 Steps to Make Your Own Movie
1. Go to the website www.dvolver.com
2. Select background and sky for your scene.
3. Select a plot, e.g. Rendez-vous, pick-up, chase and soliloquy.
4. Select characters from 30 different animation for your scene.
5. Edit your own dialogue.
6. Select music for your scene.
7. Select a style for your title and add your name and the title for the animation.
How to use Dvolver in Language Teaching and Learning
1. In the language classroom, teacher can make the class more vivid and stimulating by presenting the animation produced by Dvolver to tailor the textbook.
2. Teacher deliver a task to students and ask them to make their own animation via Dvolver by using key sentences and vocabulary. This task can be done individually or in pairs. In this process, students can learn practice making conversation and using new vocabulary.
Benefits of Dvolver in Language Class
- Increase the motivation and creativity of students, especially young learners.
- Encourage autonomous learning.
- Animation is vivid and stimulating.
- Simple steps allow you to customize your own animation.
- No need to sign up for the website.
- The finished animation can be sent to e-mail, Facebook, blog, etc.
Limitations
- The choice of background, sky, characters and music is fairly limited and may not enough to meet the needs of users.
- The maximum number of characters is only two, which is not enough for making a conversation including more than three characters.
- Voice cannot be added to the animation. It would be better with characters pronouncing the language in the animation.
- The background music is sometimes annoying with repeating playing.
Further Reading
- Teachertrainingvideos http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/volver/index.html
- 10 Popular Sites like Dvolver http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/www.dvolver.com/Top_10_Sites_Like_Dvolver/
- Dvolver Online Animation
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/Video-Creation-Websites/p/Dvolver-Online-Animation.htm
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