Animation making

       Look at the animation I made! Thanks for watching. Here are two interesting websites for animation making. Have fun and learn while play!

http://www.xtranormal.com/

Another site for Animation making: Zimmertwins

http://www.zimmertwins.com/

How could it be used in English class?

• Could be a task for students: focused on the process of creating and negotiating meaning 

• Great combination visual and audio  for teaching materials. Mixing sounds with voice is good for training students' listening L2.

Why is it good for English language learning?

• A perfect place for representing interaction and communication

• Opportunity to research and learn more about the characters

• It engages students' cognitive ability; It stimulates learners' artistic skills.

• The setting is very motivating

• After you finish the task, you can publish your product. Students be attracted by this. It makes the students feel successful.

• Great vocabulary on motions and facial expressions
• it is extremely motivating as the graphic environment and the characters are interesting.

• Students will be very interested in the way the characters speak. So they will perhaps do their best to imitate the native speaker
• Motivate students to do the collaborative task    

Limitations:

• Dialogues robot like
• Distraction on the animation making rather than English learning
• A little difficult for younger learners.