Dvolver

Dvolver ; a movie making website that enables language practice at use.

What is amazing about it : 

1. Allows learners to get creative and have fun at constructing sentences.
2. Gives learners a chance to have a sense of ownership and able to prove themselves. 

3. And a very cool way for teachers to check on students' homework!

Limitations :
1 Limited selection of characters.
2. Does not provide any voice for the characters. Although this website mainly focuses on encouraging students to construct sentences. But it would have been more motivating if there were voices for the characters to act out the dialogues constructed by them. Learners would benefit more than constructing sentences for they would also get to know the pronunciation and the rhythm of a certain language used.

How it can be used in language classrooms (suggestion): 

For example,

if you were to ask your students to use adjectives in their conversation, you could ask them to go to the website and create a dialogue which adjectives can be used. The website would provide your students with the setting, the characters and thus creating a contextual learning environment for them to practice their language use.

The clip below is one example how a student may want to use adjectives in their conversation. And later learners could email the clip to their teachers for checking. 

Click on the link to give it a go: http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html

Have fun trying, thank you!