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| Screenshot 1: Dvolver home page |
Description
Dvolver is a simple movie-making website which allows users to work through and produce their own short clips. Users can choose and customise the situations, contexts and characters according to their creativity.
Suitable for: Users with intermediate level of English language proficiency and technical knowledge of computer skills.
Steps
1. First search 'http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/' in the internet.
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| Screenshot 2: choose the background and sky for your movie |
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| Screenshot 3: 4 plots to choose from |
8. After having done that, you can preview and then email the short movie to your friends.
Advantages
a) Helps develop students' creativity.
b) Encourages real communication during classroom interaction.
c) Change of focus in learning style.
d) Can be interesting to students.
e) Students can personalise the short movie to their interest and liking with limits set by teacher.
Disadvantages
a) Limited contexts - Can be a bit boring for advanced learners because limited choice in context, background, character, plot and music.
b) No method to filter use of improper language or situations. Students might abuse the freedom they get when using this tool at home.
c) The technical bits may be difficult and demotivating for new learners who are not used to technology. Thus further interaction hour to train them into efficient user might be needed.
d) Dependent on resources available in classroom - Some schools might not have internet connection or enough computers. In order to overcome this, teacher can make the task as a homework. Hence no internet connection is needed during classroom hour. However teacher will need to demonstrate effectively during classroom interaction.
Ways to improve
One way to improve such a brilliant internet tool is to allow more freedom to personalise context by giving rooms for customised context in many more ways. If this can be done, the tool might be able to attract more professional users.
Another way to improve is by raising the word limit. The limit of 100 words can be quite distracting if user wants to make complicated dialogues. Thus by raising word limit, more efficient language user might be attracted to use this tool.
One last way to attract younger learner is by adding extra add-ons such as automatic dictionary, storyline suggestion from famous stories and vocabulary suggestion tool or simply an interactive thesaurus online.
Example of short-clip
a) Helps develop students' creativity.
b) Encourages real communication during classroom interaction.
c) Change of focus in learning style.
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| Screenshot 4: Choose character from a list given |
e) Students can personalise the short movie to their interest and liking with limits set by teacher.
Disadvantages
a) Limited contexts - Can be a bit boring for advanced learners because limited choice in context, background, character, plot and music.
b) No method to filter use of improper language or situations. Students might abuse the freedom they get when using this tool at home.
c) The technical bits may be difficult and demotivating for new learners who are not used to technology. Thus further interaction hour to train them into efficient user might be needed.
d) Dependent on resources available in classroom - Some schools might not have internet connection or enough computers. In order to overcome this, teacher can make the task as a homework. Hence no internet connection is needed during classroom hour. However teacher will need to demonstrate effectively during classroom interaction.
Ways to improve
One way to improve such a brilliant internet tool is to allow more freedom to personalise context by giving rooms for customised context in many more ways. If this can be done, the tool might be able to attract more professional users.
Another way to improve is by raising the word limit. The limit of 100 words can be quite distracting if user wants to make complicated dialogues. Thus by raising word limit, more efficient language user might be attracted to use this tool.
One last way to attract younger learner is by adding extra add-ons such as automatic dictionary, storyline suggestion from famous stories and vocabulary suggestion tool or simply an interactive thesaurus online.
Example of short-clip
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