Reviews of Zimmer Twins at School & Storybird

Blog #6: Digital Storytelling

▶ Zimmer Twins at School
Website: http://zimmertwinsatschool.com/

This is the tool that you can create cartoons & comics by clicking. You can also make a movie and a conversation clip through this tool.
One of the good thing about this tool is I personally think, you can have a male and a female looks that the students can substitute the roles through these clips.



▶ Storybird
Website: http://storybird.com

This tool provides you to be able to make a professional-looking digital storybook by just choosing the template and typing the story in the page that you want to have. Even if you make a such a short story with this, it can be still very powerful for the visual learners.

▶ How could these tools be used by teachers AND students?

Teachers and students can cooperate on making the story together. Thus, it can help to build up students' creativity by using English. It can also support the reluctant student who does not want to do the speaking class due to having all the attention. This is because the reluctant student who does not want to speak in front of other students is able to have a good idea about the story with a free conversation class which provides much more natural atmosphere to have the opinion in public.

▶ How could they be incorporated into a class?

This can be incorporated at the very last of the lesson such as a group project that the students can use their knowledge from the lesson. Thus, the teacher can also evaluate the students' understading by checking their performance, not by giving them a assessment test paper.