I am not a fan of flash movies. They are just absurd especially those that come with annoying screeching musics that continuously play as you scroll down the pages on the web. That however, changes as Dvolver enables you to devolve your duty as the authority of your language class to your students, transforming it into a learner-centred class instead of the same old boring teacher-teach-and-students-listen class.
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| DVolver is previously known as DFilm |
Editor's Review
★★★
Acceptable
The good: DVolver definitely takes us a step forward from the normal approach to communicative language teaching. It’s fortunately free. The interface is user-friendly, easy
to navigate from one page to another. It’s gorgeous and interactive of course.
Easy to use. A perfect substitution of Windows Movie Maker if one’s thinking
of creating a simple flash movie.
The bad: It’s limited to three scenes. Few lines are allocated for each scene with twitter style of word limit. Characters can be too revealing for young students.
The bottomline: DVolver is a good interactive tool to help reticent students
to participate in a task which requires them to be both receptive and
productive. Try it!
DVolver as the name suggests, makes it possible for non-professional computer users to create simple flash movies. Colourful, simple, and interactive those adjectives can be used to describe this amazing tool. If you’re looking for a change to your normal didactic language class, DVolver is the answer.
How to create your own DVolver:
Step 1: Choose your desirable background and sky.
Step 2: Select a plot.
Step 3: Select your characters.
Step 4: Be creative and decide your dialogue.
Step 5: Get background music.
Step 6: Almost there. Select your movie title design.
Step 7: Finally your movie is ready. You can send your movie to anyone and codes are available for the movie to be embed onto your website or blog.
Rationale
Ownership
What makes this a great tool is that it provides a whole new
sphere where students can now make their own flash movies, own them and even
flaunt them proudly. In short, students can own their own movies. As a director, a producer as well as the
scriptwriter, hence no doubt what they’re creating is their responsibility.
Communicative
It is communicative. Though it is considered as an indirect
communication and it’s not authentic, you can always turn the
activity as peer-based by asking them to work together
to create a movie or suggests peer feedbacks activity. Criticality check.
Contextualized Language Learning
It can also help to promote contextualized language learning whereby
students will able to use dialogue based on the context. For that reason, they
can learn English through function. Not only that, students who're introvert can benefit from this tool by turning it into their comfort zone. They can be someone else and put themselves in the character's shoes, making them possibly more confident to voice out their opinions. Who knows behind those timid and shy eyes, stand a brilliant eloquent speaker?
Free your Imagination
DVolver helps to flourish students’ imagination, enable to expand where they can get creative through the limited characters and settings.Real Life Conversation
Even with the limited word counting per dialogue, students are actually challenged to be more economic because IRL conversation, a person is unable to make complex sentences. Instead, most conversations contain simple sentences with pauses, hedges and very straightforward. Rarely for anyone to make flowery and long-winded sentences unless that person is delivering a speech.Internet
However, one of the profound drawbacks for some teachers who
maybe have slight problem with the availability of efficient internet
connection, DVolver might prove worthless.
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