Zimmertwins is an online application that allows users to create stories using animations. It is specially designed for kids, however it is suitable for teenagers and secondary school students as well. Continue reading in order to find more information about this tool.
How to make a movie using Zimmer Twins?
1. Go to zimmertwins website http://www.zimmertwins.com/ and this page will appear:
Zimmer Twins not only allows users to create stories, but it also gives chance for us to watch movies created by other people. Click on 'watch a movie' (as you can see in above picture) to watch any movies you like.
2. Select 'make a movie' .
- Click 'make from scratch'.
3. Now when this page appears, you can start creating your story.
As you can see, there are four different tabs given. Each tab represents different animation clip. The first from right is talk bubble clip (to make characters sing, talk, scream and so on), next to bubble clip is action clip (to make characters walk, dance, run, hugs and more), the third clip is close-up clip (to give emotions to characters such as angry, scared , happy and so on) and the last clip is star clip (to insert fun things such as newspaper headline, fortune, tickets and so on) .
Click this link to watch one example of short animated stories that is created using zimmertwins
However, there are some limitations noticed in this tool which are:
Regardless of the limitations mentioned above, Zimmer Twins has many other qualities that make it suitable to be used as one captivating tool in language learning. See below:
Some ideas on how Zimmer Twins can be used in classroom language teaching
Hope you can try this in your class.
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