Teacher Preparation Videos

Over the in conclusion few weeks I’ve been exploring some of the content on Russell Stannard’s http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/ website. The videos aren’t pedagogical type classroom videos of teachers working amongst students, equally y'all mightiness at offset assume from the title, but are video tutorials which demonstrate how to usage diverse software together with websites to develop your teaching.

What’s on the site
The site is aimed at ELT teachers who are interested inward developing their applied scientific discipline skills for instruction purposes. The top dog content of the site is dissever into 3 top dog categories, which y'all tin uncovering inward the left-hand column of the homepage.

• The offset is ‘General instructor grooming videos’
  This contains video tutorials on how to practice some pretty useful stuff from how to usage ITunes together with download podcasts to how to practice a Blog together with PowerPoint tips. There’s a really useful serial on how to practice a Wiki together with I actually enjoyed the ones 1 PhotoShop basics ( H5N1 plan that I direct maintain tried to original a let on of times!)
• The 2nd is ‘ELT instructor grooming videos’
  This department is peculiarly aimed at the ELT instructor together with looks in-depth at some ELT related sites together with how best to usage them. There’s a actually useful review of some of the best ELT podcasts equally good equally a serial of videos on how to usage Podomatic to practice together with upload your ain podcast.
• The concluding department is ‘Multimedia learning videos’
  This contains videos that volition move peculiarly useful for anyone who wants to larn how to usage some of the major authoring programs existence used to practice e-learning materials. The top dog focus at the instant seems to move on Flash together with Director. The videos acquire from the basics of agreement the tool laid to some of the to a greater extent than demanding tasks, such equally animation.

Each 1 of the topics higher upwardly is covered past times a whole serial of equally many equally twenty brusk two infinitesimal video tutorials amongst sound narration which direct maintain y'all through the processes involved pace past times pace showing y'all just what to do.

What I liked virtually it

• The tutorials are really clear together with are actually good staged.
• You tin easily saltation to simply the video y'all desire to lookout adult man from the side menu
  
• The videos are brusk together with download reasonably speedily (on my broadband connection)
  
• They encompass a existent multifariousness of software tools together with websites
• It’s free

What wasn’t together with therefore good

• This is a huge collection of actually good prepared together with presented FREE grooming materials together with therefore what’s non to like?

Conclusion
This site actually represents a wealth of complimentary evolution for anyone actually interested inward improving the tech skills together with using ICT amongst or to practice materials for their students. Russell has patently pose inward hours of fourth dimension together with a huge amount of function on the site to render a actually first-class resources that I’m certain teachers around the the world tin practice goodness from. Check it out at: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/