3. choices of settings, characters and background music

Strengths?1. easy way to do digital storytelling

2. user friendly

4. creativity motivation

5. embedding function

6. entertainment

Weaknesses? 1. only 3 scenes in a movie

2. only 2 characters per scene

3. not yet a child-safe version

4. not allowing voice embedded

5. not allowing character’s noverbal

Ideas for classroom• Digital Storytelling

• Introducing a new concept, chapter, story, issue, etc by teachers

• Reading Comprehension

• Writing

– essay/paragraph

– movie peer checking and comment writing

• Presenting

• Grammar

Pedagogic implications

1. Children have no reason for learning English.

2. Children can’t manage their own behaviour.

3. Children focus on meaning not words.

4. Children learn from direct experience and activity.

5. Children pick up language chunks.

6. Children use language creatively.

(based on Moon, J. (2000). Children learning English. Macmillan.)

Basic instructions

Click to the link: http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html- Select the background and the sky, click to “next” to choose characters,

background music and then type in the scripts for each character .- Take turn from scene 1 to scene 3 by repeating the same steps.

- Open the tool “screencast-O-Matic” and “start recording” the characters’ voice by role-playing.

- Copy the created link of your new movie to send to people via email or put it on your own website.

Or click to: http://www.screenr.com/8Kl for more tutorials.

An example

- Using Dvolver, learners could imagine other conversations the characters in the pictures may have had and then recreate them.

-You could use the topics in the secondary school syllabus as inspiration for your script and characters. You could even try bringing one of the listening activities in the syllabus to life by using the audio

script as your script and building your Dvolver film around it.

- Click to :http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-799449to see our example of using Dvolver for practising writing, speaking

and reviewing grammar as well.

Recommendations

-Using Screencast-o-matic to embed characters’ voices:

http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/clXu3qVe4b

-Custom-made version