hey want as long as they can fulfill the requirement of the task given by the teacher.
- Would be an advantage for the students who have visual intelligence - the teacher can cover this type of intelligence during the lesson - can engage those students and vary the teaching style.
- Th students can save their time. It will just take few minutes to do a simple movie.
- The students are given various options with regards to setting, characters and background music. In addition, they can also choose on how the characters interact in the movie.
- Students can freely write whatever dialogue that they want. They are given total freedom.
- When they finished the movie, they can e-mail it to their friends to share or post it to their website or blog.
- It would be fun and entertaining for the students normally, children like animation and cartoon.
- Some of the characters are not suitable to be used by the students. For example, the character of Hottie whom a bit sexy.
- As the students can freely write what they want, thus they might have the tendency to write inappropriate words.
- The end product is just the moving characters whom communicate through text inside speech bubbles. Thus, people cannot hear the characters speak.
- The skills need to create the movie is minimal in which it only involves choosing the scene, choosing the characters and writing the text. The students who are advanced in technology might find this a bit boring and not exciting.
- There are limited numbers of maximum characters which can be chosen - only two.
- There are limited plots to write - The students can only do three scenes in the movie. .
- The characters navigation are limited - the movie has fixed the way the characters move. Therefore, the users cannot navigate the characters in any way they choose. In addition, the characters' non-verbal communication will also be limited.
- Once the movie is published, it cannot be edited anymore. As the consequence, if the students want to improvise their mini movie, they would need to make a new one.