Aleksandra Velenšek, Osnovna šola Frana Kranjca, Celje
Formative assessment is one of the key elements in a modern school that can change the minds of students and teachers. Students can get a quality feedback that is essential for successful development of independent learning. With the use of different tools we can make learning a foreign language, in concrete case English, richer, more interesting and meaningful. One of these tools is Dvolver Moviemaker that encourages innovativeness and creativity, but its great advantage is that it is amusing. With its use students can create their own short film in just a few simple steps and the teacher can get a quality feedback of students knowledge. This tool enables teachers as well as students a linguistic expressivity of their own views or practising language structures with the creation of their own short film. But as every other tool it also has advantages and disadvantages, that’s why teacher’s monitoring is essential. In the workshop I am going to present the use of this tool in the classroom with the elements of formative assessment. In the process of formative assessment the teacher has a role of a moderator and a guide and the students take the role of leaders in the learning process. Hereby they take the responsibility on their own shoulders and their duty is to show, what they have learnt and not just wait for their teacher to find this out. The most important in my opinion is the strategy to activate students to become each other’s source of teaching. By doing this their motivation and self-confidence strengthen and with mutual help they create a new level of communication. Later on each participant of the workshop is going to create his/her own short film from the chosen field with the use of this tool. The teachers should develop the digital literacy of students, therefore I encourage students to use different sources and forms on the Internet. Dvolver Moviemaker is one of them. This tool isn’t only appropriate for the use in foreign language classroom, his use is universal. Its main function is the popularity and fun that students experience and therefore they take the lesson without constraint and they let their imagination fly. Formative assessment enables us this in its maximum ability and the opinion of those teachers who use it in the classroom is that there is no way back, because this is the only right way.
