2. 1. easy way to do
Strengths? digital storytelling
2. user friendly 6. entertainment
3. choices of settings, characters
and background music
4. creativity motivation
5. embedding function

3. Weaknesses? 1. only 3 scenes
in a movie
3. not yet a child- 2. only 2 characters
safe version per scene
4. not allowing 5. not allowing
voice embedded character’s noverbal

4. 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

5. 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.)

6. 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.

7. 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-799449
to see our example of using Dvolver for practising writing, speaking
and reviewing grammar as well.

8. Recommendations
-Using Screencast-o-matic to embed
characters’ voices:
http://screencast-o-
matic.com/watch/clXu3qVe4b
-Custom-made version