What is Dvolver?
Dvolver creates online animated
videos. You can easily create short animations to tell a story by choosing
different scenes, plots and characters. Then you can add music to it and speech
bubbles. The site is for free and it allows you to create as many videos as you
can think of. According to Peachey (2009)
students can profit from this kind of site since they "can create
animations which incorporate specific language points or vocabulary". He also
points that this website is “great because it is so simple and quick to use,
but gives very professional looking results which can then be shared. Animation
is also very engaging and is great at showing time relationships as they
actually do exist in time”.
Here are the steps to follow when
you create a video through Dvolver.
1)
Access the
following website http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html . There is no need to create and account and it is for free.
2) You can start creating your movie –Scene 1- by selecting a background and a sky.
3)
Click on “next”
and choose a select a plot.
4)
Click on “next”
a select the characters.
5)
Click on “next”
and type in the characters’ lines
6)
Click on “
next” and choose the background music.
You can
also add more scenes to your movie and once you are ready press “finish movie”,
write a title for it and then your movie will be generated. There are two
options: the preview and send movie. After you have sent the movie to someone you will have the option to
copy the embed script. This will enable you to embed your
movie into a blog or website and share it with others.
References
Peachey, N. (n.d.). Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. Retrieved November 4,
2015.
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