Today we were making short movies using the Dvolver-site. The Dvolver-site is easy to use and the “movie making process” is very well guided. With Dvolver you can create short animations (2-6 lines lasting about a minute or so) and there are characters and scenes to choose, so all you really have to do is write the lines for the characters you choose to use.
In the beginning of the lesson every student got one word in English and was asked to write a movie line (a sentence or two) and use the word they got in it. We put the movie lines into a jar and the students picked up one each. The task was to make an animation, choose characters and write lines for them – one line being the one they got from another student.
The students took a photo of their movie and added the link to their movie to our blog. So you are able to see their movies via the links in our blog. :)
Some students were finishing their ABC-books. Almost every student has now sent two invitations (to one Latvian and one Swedish student) to come and write the ABC-books together. So many of your students have already got an invitation and a link to a GoogleDrive-presentation. Next week we will check our notes and the list with email-addresses and send the last invitations. You can go to our common GoogleDrive-document called ‘ABC-book – pairing’ if you want to see how the students are paired for this task and who they are working with.
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By the way, have you been reading the comments on the posts of the student blog? The students are having actual conversations there! Asking questions about the text one has written and being interested in each other’s lives and also answering the questions they’ve got. So happy to see that happening! That way they will already know each other a bit before the meeting in Saulkrasti. Let’s encourage them to continue commenting and answering!
Dear ladies,
I think we should start thinking of the ideas and plans what we would like to do, to see to achieve during our meeting in Saulkrasti. we are having a project week at the end of February and we could spend some time with my students preparing for our meeting.
Dear Gaida,
I will think about this and write a post about the visit soon. Annika