The Puckish Twins: Zimmer Twins!

Hi buddies! Today you will meet with Zimmer Twins. Their names are Edgar and Eva. I said 'you' will meet because I've already been acquainted with them. Actually it is a website which makes learning English entertaining for kids. We presented it in the classroomwith my partner Leyla. The site's movie-making tool is designed around elements of sentence structure and creative expression, which reinforces reading and writing skills.The Zimmer Twins is known for its unique format which combines online participation. Its animations enhance almost any curriculum subject. 

And how to use the Zimmer Twins? I am going to try to explain it step by step. Firstly, when you open the page you see a screen and you need to choose one of the two  options(kids or educators). We chose the second one. It isn’t a must to sign up the website but unless you sign up you can’t save your movies. In order to start to create your movie you need to click ''make a video''. You can change the character but you just have three options Edgar, Eva, 13( the cat). You can also change the background. Let’s pick an animation clip. There are four different types of clips to choose from. First, you can use the talk bubble clips to make the characters talk.These action clips let your characters walk, run, dance and more. Close up clips let your characters act surprised, happy or even scared. I mean you can add expressions to your characters. Let’s check the star clips. You can find headlines to use here. You can also arrange your animations on the timeline. If you change your mind about the order of your clip, click and drop it to the new location. If you want a longer animation just add another clip right after.  After all, in order to save your movie you can click ''save movie'' and you can give a name to it. If  you need to get more help you can click ''how to make a video'' and watch the introductory video. I add it here for facilitate your work.

                              


 Furthermore you can add students to your class . As for classroom implication of Zimmer Twins, it is a fun way to incorporate technology into the classroom. Watch your students, become junior movie producers, practice proper writing habits and expand their vocabulary. 

Unfortunately, there are some limitations of this site. You can add only up to five students to your class, create maximum of 12 movies,  make pre-scripted comments.There is simple content moderation and no sound clip in the videos. Also, students can't edit their movies with free membership and it is not possible to embed your video. You can only share it with e-mail. Despite all, thanks to its simple usage and enjoyable outcomes, we as future teachers, definitely recommend you to use it for your edutaining.

As I said it is not possible to embed the movie that you have created, I took a video of our movie with my telephone. Let me share our example with you.

Here is another example of the website.