March 13, 2006

Cropping Youtube Videos To Practise Activities

Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually great, but finding a video amongst the exact linguistic communication yous desire together with at a suitable length amongst every bit good many other distractions around tin endure actually difficult. That's why SafeShare.TV is therefore useful.
Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities
  • SafeShare.TV is a tool that has ii principal functions. The foremost is to enable yous to percentage YouTube videos using a right away URL that frames the video without the advertising together with other distracting features that mightiness travail students to wander off into less suitable materials.
  • The bit together with possibly fifty-fifty to a greater extent than useful role of SafeShare.TV is that it enable yous to crop the video clip therefore that exclusively a detail component subdivision is shown. This is especially useful when yous desire to gear upward activities or tasks around clips that focus students on detail linguistic features.
How to job SafeShare.TV
First respect a YouTube clip that has a department that yous would similar to use. I chose this i from ‘Room amongst a View’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehft3GDw6k. At ix mins it's quite long therefore I simply wanted to job a few sections.
Copy the URL together with and therefore teach to: http://www.safeshare.tv/. Paste the link into the plain together with therefore click on ‘Generate rubber link’.
Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create ActivitiesThis volition create a novel link to the video which yous tin together with therefore job amongst your students to present them the clip.
Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create ActivitiesWhen the students opened upward the link they volition exclusively run across the unmarried video clip amongst it’s title, similar the instance below.

Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create ActivitiesIf yous desire to crop the clip therefore that exclusively a brusk component subdivision of it shows, together with therefore generate your rubber URL together with and therefore click on the link that says 'Do yous desire to exclusively percentage a component subdivision of the video? click to crop.' This volition opened upward a small-scale video viewer. Click the video to picket it, together with therefore click on ‘Set Start’ at the showtime of the segment yous desire students to see. Watch the segment together with click ‘Set End’ at the destination of the segment. Now click ‘OK
Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities
Once yous bring clicked 'OK' your rubber link volition endure adapted to exclusively present the department of the video yous bring selected. You tin together with therefore either re-create the link to percentage amongst students or percentage it through a diversity of social networking mediums.

Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually corking Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities
Here's a quick video tutorial showing how to practice this.
You tin download this video here or download a re-create for i-Touch or i-Phone here How tin nosotros job this amongst students? Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities together with tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to picket the whole thing.
  • You tin choose instance phrases to present the job of linguistic communication inward context, such every bit a telephone telephone telephone or a scene that shows mortal booking into a hotel etc.
    Here’s an example: Booking a hotel room This was trimmed from a much longer clip on YouTube
  • You tin present students the showtime to a clip together with inquire them to predict what’s ‘going to’ hap next.

    Here are ii examples:
    1. What's going to happen?
    2. What's going to happen?
  • You tin present the showtime together with destination of a clip together with inquire students to predict what ‘has happened’ inward between.

    Example:
    They picket this one
    Then this one
  • You tin present students a expose of sections from the same clip together with inquire them to social club them either past times using linguistic or visual clues together with explicate their rationale.

    Here are v clips for yous to travail to order:
    Clip 1
    Clip 2
    Clip 3
    Clip 4
    Clip 5
  • You tin present each pupil inward a grouping a dissimilar sections of the clip (like the v sections above) together with and therefore inquire them to piece of work together to depict the component subdivision they watched together with seat the dissimilar sections into the right social club every bit a group.
  • You tin job the sections to focus on the job of specific structures, similar this i for ‘should haveShould bring clip or this i for the job of 3rd conditional 3rd conditional clip
  • At the destination of these types of activities yous tin present them the consummate clip. http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k
What I similar almost it
  • It’s complimentary together with slow to use
  • It gets your students right to the component subdivision of the video yous desire them to see
  • It allows yous to easily divide videos into shorter clips
  • there’s a elementary ‘bookmarklet’ that yous tin drag to your favourites bar, together with therefore whenever yous respect a YouTube clip your desire to job yous simply click on it to teach the SafeShare.TV link.
What I’m non therefore certain about
  • Sometimes it doesn’t piece of work on my MAC
  • It would endure corking to bring an embed code every bit good every bit a URL
Well those are some suggestions to teach yous started cropping YouTube videos. I promise yous respect them useful. You tin respect 25 to a greater extent than video related activities for EFL together with ESL students here. Related links: Best Nik Peachey

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