Back inward Nov 2008 I published
Part 1 of a serial of articles intended to explore the usage of WebCams inward education. I accept straight off finally got circular to writing Part ii which is a collection of xx activities EFL ESL teachers tin do amongst their students.
Here are to a greater extent than or less links to useful gratuitous video communication tools that you lot could usage for these activities.
- MailVu is a uncomplicated to usage app which runs inward the browser in addition to enables students to tape a brusque message which tin live on sent yesteryear email.
- EyeJot is to a greater extent than or less other uncomplicated video electronic mail app which also has a mobile version.
- Skype is of course of instruction the mainstream selection for synchronous communication.
- Oovoo is a Skype challenger which also enables the recording of video interviews yesteryear capturing both interviewer in addition to interviewee.
xx WebCam Activities
1. Chinese - video dictation - whispers - Use the video electronic mail characteristic to tape a brusque text. Send it to the outset of your students. Ask your pupil to write downward the message in addition to and thus tape it themselves in addition to send it to the side yesteryear side student. Each pupil should rerecord in addition to send the message on to another, until the in conclusion pupil sends it dorsum to you. You volition in addition to thus encounter how accurately the message matches to your master copy text.
2. Interactive video learning diary - You could acquire students to do an interactive learning diary, they could electronic mail you lot their video summary of what they experience they accept learned each 24-hour interval in addition to you lot could in addition to thus respond. The videos would cast a goodness learning tape in addition to students volition live on able to expect dorsum at them afterwards in addition to encounter how they accept improved - quite literally - in addition to also listen the improvements inward their speaking ability. This is also a corking way to plough over your students one-to-one-time which tin oft live on a employment inward class.
3. Class survey - Action research - You could send a video message to your students amongst a course of instruction survey enquiry that they could respond to. This would live on a goodness way to send out classroom research, determine on learning goals in addition to brand certain that all students had a way to feedback to you lot inward private in addition to on an private basis.
They could also do their ain questions in addition to send them to each other, in addition to thus feedback inward class.
4. The witness - Show one-half of your students a video clip or picture, that includes a issue of people (scenes from films amongst depository fiscal establishment robberies, where a issue of people are involved are quite useful for this). Then enquire the students to imagine that they are 1 of the people inward the celluloid or painting in addition to they quest to depict what happened. Ask them to tape a video contestation giving their concern human relationship of what happened inward the outset person. You tin in addition to thus enquire the other students to imagine they are detectives in addition to sentry the clips your students accept created in addition to brand notes to slice together what happened. Afterwards they tin sentry the master copy celluloid clip together inward course of instruction in addition to you lot tin encounter how good they did in addition to what they missed.
Here's an event depository fiscal establishment robbery scene
5. Favourite poems or haiku - Students could tape themselves reading their favourite verse form or haiku, you lot could in addition to thus embed the videos into a spider web page or weblog equally a course of instruction poesy collection.
6. Video twitter - Using the feed characteristic you lot could do a sort of video Twitter, amongst your students video micro-blogging close learning English, their 24-hour interval at school, or whatsoever theme they divulge interesting.
7. Text in addition to video fault correction - Using the video electronic mail feature, you lot could tape a video of yourself reading a text, in addition to thus add together the text inside the electronic mail message. You could include to a greater extent than or less errors inward the text in addition to acquire them to sentry the video in addition to right the errors.
8. Create a collaborative story - Email students a video amongst the outset employment of a floor in addition to enquire them to tape your employment of the floor in addition to add together their own, in addition to thus operate yesteryear it back, or operate yesteryear it on to to a greater extent than or less other student. This way you lot could ready upward a floor betwixt the grouping over a menstruum of time.
9. Tip of the day - Send you lot students a learning tip each 24-hour interval yesteryear video email. These could live on examine tips, study tips, recommended website etc.(The URL for the website would look inward the text purpose of the message below the video.)
10. Video dictation - Send a video electronic mail of yourself dictating a text in addition to enquire your students to sentry in addition to write the text inward the electronic mail in addition to send it dorsum to you lot for correction.
11. Vocabulary tape / give-and-take of the day - You could enquire your students to do a video to tape the words in addition to event sentences. You could also do something similar this yourself equally a sort of 'Word of the Day' channel.
12. News Reports - Ask students to read the intelligence ( inward English linguistic communication or their ain outset language) in addition to and thus gain a video intelligence written report on 1 of the principal stories that they are interested in.
They could also do their ain local or schoolhouse video intelligence channel for other students to subscribe to.
13. Present continuous (sound on or off) - You tin tape video clips to demonstrate introduce continuous sentences. You tin do this amongst audio on or amongst audio off in addition to the students tin estimate the sentence
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14. Questions for response - You could gear upward clips amongst questions in addition to enquire your students to respond online. They could also gear upward a sequence of their ain questions for other students to respond to.
15. Guess the object - You or students could tape a description of in addition to object in addition to viewers accept to brain in addition to estimate what the object is. Getting students to do these clips volition assistance them to live on concise in addition to actually position the telephone substitution concepts behind describing objects.
16. Sales pitch - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 variation on the thought inward a higher position is to enquire students to gain a video trying to convince users to purchase a item object. Again this helps them to position telephone substitution concepts, gives them exercise amongst using linguistic communication of view in addition to it may good assistance them to force for faster speaking speeds in addition to meliorate fluency.
17. Moods - You tin do video clips of yourself or your students expressing dissimilar moods. This tin assistance them to larn the vocabulary of the moods, but you lot could also usage it to acquire students to predict the displace of the mood ( in addition to exercise introduce perfect; "He's angry because he has only been made redundant." etc.)
18. Live tutoring support - Video conferencing is an ideal tool for supporting distance learners in addition to doing 'face to face' tutorials.
19. Video interviews - You could acquire far acquit upon amongst someone for your course of instruction to interview. Just accept 1 reckoner addition photographic tv set camera gear upward inward class, in addition to a visiting expert, friend or colleague on the other halt for your students to interview. They could also interview an adept inward groups from habitation amongst a conference call.
The interview doesn't accept to live on done 'live' it could also live on done through a serial of electronic mail video messages sent to the interviewee.You tin endeavor it hither yesteryear watching this video in addition to and thus clicking reply.
20. Video lesson amongst conferencing - You could usage the conference telephone telephone to videocast your lesson or presentation to a grouping of distance learners.
I promise you lot divulge these suggestions useful in addition to care to usage to a greater extent than or less of them amongst your students. Do driblet me a employment if you lot accept other recommendations for useful video conferencing tools or activities. You tin divulge to a greater extent than
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