Drama Projection Tools

Moviestorm if yous were thinking of launching into a Machinima projection as well as would attention yous as well as your students to maintain runway of the run yous create inside the motion-picture demo creation software.

I've genuinely downloaded this myself as well as started using it amongst around of my ain creative media projects, as well as thence I'll permit yous know how I decease on.

Hope yous discovery it useful

Best
Nik

Prompting Reading Speeds

This is a genuinely handy footling tool which is doing the rounds at the moment. It's called CuePrompter in addition to it's an online Teleprompter.

For those non inwards the know, a Teleprompter is a tool used past times intelligence readers, TV presenters etc to assistance them recollect their lines. They read it from higher upward the camera.

This 1 is really unproblematic to role in addition to you lot precisely cutting in addition to glue your text into the field, lead shroud size, text size in addition to colours in addition to click a push clitoris in addition to you lot are off.


Once you lot bring your text upward on the shroud you lot tin thence lead the speed that the text moves at in addition to also exercise a few interesting things similar having the text contrary or having the text every bit a mirror image!

• This video shows you lot how it is done

How to role this amongst students
This could move genuinely useful to force your students reading speed in addition to gist reading. Many students uncovering it really hard non to focus on every give-and-take of a text in addition to larn stuck when words come upward up that they don't know. With a tool similar this, you lot tin literally strength them to scan the text in addition to proceed moving.

To larn the best from this inwards degree you lot are going to demand a information projection or an interactive whiteboard (IWB).

Some possible tasks:

• Paste inwards a intelligence text in addition to genuinely larn your students to read it every bit it scrolls. You could repeat in addition to gradually growth the speed.
• Put students inwards pairs / groups to read out charge the parts of plays or dialogues. With brusk dialogues you lot could larn them to read through a few times in addition to thence play the mirror icon in addition to come across if they tin yet recollect in addition to follow the dialogue.
• Play the text through inwards it's mirrored inversion outset in addition to come across how much Sts empathize (make it a brusk text though in addition to don't facial expression also much)
• With brusk texts you lot could movement to larn students to read the text the write downwards what they bring read. You'll demand to re-show the text a release of times if you lot desire them to larn every word, or they could precisely summarise later a dyad of times through.
• Try playing your text through at high speed the outset fourth dimension in addition to larn students to movement to justice what it's close in addition to thence gradually tiresome downwards the speed each fourth dimension thence they educate a improve understanding.
• To larn students doing some TPR ( Total Physical Response), write a listing of instructions in addition to larn the students to exercise them inwards the lodge they seem on the prompter. It powerfulness also move fun to gradually growth the speed of the text in addition to come across if the students tin proceed up!

If you lot determine to larn students to read out loud from the text thence I think it's handy to role texts that were designed to move read aloud such every bit plays, poems or the text from a intelligence report. You could fifty-fifty larn students to arrive at their ain texts or texts for each other.

What I liked close this

• It's free
• It's genuinely unproblematic to use
• You tin create materials inwards seconds
• It doesn't involve downloading anything or using loads of bandwidth
• It gives the instructor command of the text
  

What I wasn't thence certain about

• It doesn't move thence good inwards the Firefox browser, though it's fine inwards IE
• It would move useful to move able to relieve in addition to embed the texts into other pages
  
• It gives the instructor command of the text

Hope you lot uncovering this useful in addition to if you lot bring whatsoever other suggestions for tips or activities past times all agency add together a comment below.

Best

Nik

Soundscapes From Soundtransit

Sound Transit is a actually wonderful formulation of an idea. It's non simply a huge collection of Mp3 audio files from all over the world, but the sounds create got been tagged yesteryear province together with described together with a visitor to the site tin create got a audio journeying around the world.

You simply select your province of origin, your goal together with how many stops you lot desire to make. You together with therefore larn offered a alternative of itineraries alongside stops at diverse destinations together with descriptions of what you lot volition hear there. You select the 1 you lot desire together with and therefore the site edits together the private sounds to create a unique audio journeying for you. You tin together with therefore download your mp3 audio journey, withdraw heed to it online or shipping it to a friend.

• To endeavor this larn to the Book a Transit purpose of the site. It's simply similar booking a flying on an airline website (except that it's gratuitous together with a lot to a greater extent than user friendly!!)

Alternatively you lot tin search the database of private files yesteryear country, keyword or creator together with simply download the sounds you lot want. All the sounds are licensed nether creative common 2.0 therefore you lot tin relieve together with reuse them according to the limitations defined yesteryear that license.

• To access the database of sounds larn to Search for sounds.

How to utilization this alongside students

• You tin utilization the sounds for visualisations. Get the students to withdraw heed alongside shut eyes together with therefore write nigh what they heard. Or they tin create a storey from what they heard.
• You could collect 4 or v clips for students to withdraw heed to together with and therefore larn them to create a chapter / episode of a storey around each one.
• You could utilization them for grammer do ( e.g. introduce continuous "Someone is speaking." etc.)
• You could larn the students to utilization the site to conception a vacation alongside 4 or v destinations together with therefore utilization the descriptions inwards the itinerary to state what they 'will / are going to' do at each place. They tin together with therefore select the best holiday. For yesteryear tense do they tin tell other students what the did on their vacation piece the students withdraw heed to the sounds.
• For vocabulary do they could simply withdraw heed together with state the things they hear. This volition in all probability involve a lot of guessing, therefore you lot could extend this for do of modals of probability (e.g. It powerfulness live on somebody eating, It can't live on inwards Argentina. That must live on a auto door etc.)
• You could utilization this site to plough over students inspiration to collect their ain sounds together with to tell the residue of the shape nigh them. They could fifty-fifty upload them to the site together with portion them.
• They could create their ain audio journeys ( e.g. Going to school, what they did at the weekend etc.)
• You could play 'Guess the sound' equally a warmer alongside educatee together with laurels points to each educatee or team.
• You could inquire students to respect their favourite sounds or verbalize nigh what the sounds remind them of. (e.g. This is 1 of my favourites. It's the telephone phone to prayer. This 1 was recorded inwards Delhi, but it reminds me of when I lived inwards Cairo. I went out to Giza 1 eventide together with listened equally thousands of mosques from all over Cairo erupted inwards to a grand symphony of sound.)
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• You tin utilization the sounds to create atmosphere for storey telling activities or educatee plays
• You tin play the John Cage game together with simply larn the students to sit down silently together with withdraw heed to the sounds around them inwards the schoolhouse classroom ( for 4 mins together with 33 seconds) together with therefore verbalize nigh what they heard. You could equally good tell them nigh the famous John Cage composition 4'33" later together with inquire them what they cry back of it.
  
• You tin play "Where am I?" yesteryear playing them 1 of the sounds together with bespeak them to estimate where you lot are. Try this one. I'm inwards a cafe inwards Moscow getting some coffee

What I liked nigh this site

• It's a wonderful gratuitous resources alongside a huge collection of sounds.
• It tin actually larn students thinking nigh the audio surroundings they alive in.
• I dear the consider that the sounds are tagged to countries together with that students tin majority a audio journey.
• The creative common license

What I wasn't therefore certain about

• Some of the audio journeys are quite long if you lot add together a lot of stops
• Some of the sounds are quite odd together with could require quite a high grade of linguistic communication to describe, but I cry back this simply way that you lot create got to select the action that you lot utilization carefully together with live on selective.

Anyway. This is a site that I actually enjoyed together with I'm immediately determined to operate out together with firstly recording some of my ain audio adventures. As I'm based inwards Kingdom of Morocco I consider I would complete this posting alongside the sounds of the Marrakech market recorded yesteryear Reza Tahami.

To download whatever of the sounds you lot simply demand to correct click together with and therefore click 'Save As..'

Best

Nik

Iconic Teen Video

Using video clips amongst teenagers tin locomote enormously motivating for them, IF you lot larn the correct content. Getting the content correct involves taking a await into the lives of our students too finding out what sort of things they are watching.

One of the most high profile examples of this is LonelyGirl15.
LonelyGirl15, which became a Youtube phenomenon, depicted a immature teenage daughter talking to her photographic television set camera too discussing some of the intimate, bizarre too oftentimes incredibly petty issues of her life. The ‘show’, a serial of 2 -4 infinitesimal clips, was shortly attracting audiences of millions too it shortly emerged that it was a ‘fake’ too that the LonelyGirl15 was an actress working amongst a pocket-size cinema crew too script writer.
Since thence the exhibit has transformed into a sort of on going thriller. at that spot is straightaway both a United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland version, KateModern equally good equally the master copy LonelyGirl15 series.
For to a greater extent than data on the plot too background see: LG Pedia

These ii shows furnish a huge potential source authentic linguistic communication equally teenagers inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North America speak it. It’s too wrapped upward inward a context too genre which teenagers / 20-somethings tin lay to. Though using this stuff isn’t without its pitfalls too drawbacks.

What I similar almost it

• The clips are short, but self contained too volition download quite quickly.
• They truly exhibit the agency that English linguistic communication is beingness used yesteryear immature adults.
• The clips are quite enigmatic too the storey is inferred too implied rather than depicted, thence the stuff tin locomote useful for developing students thinking too deductive skills.
• Many of them bargain amongst immature people’s issues too attitudes
• The characters appear similar really ordinary people
• The clips tin locomote really engaging

Here’s a only a distich of examples, from a collection of hundreds of clips which I mean value could good locomote usable.

From LonelyGirl15: Boy problems



From LonelyGirl15: Parent problems



From KateModern: H5N1 proposal



From KateModern: The order




Some ideas for using this stuff amongst students

• Students to sentinel a unmarried clip too brand deductions almost the story, what’s been happening to the character, what the relationships are to other people mentioned etc.
• Students to sentinel dissimilar clips thence construct upward too telephone commutation grapheme data too motility to attain upward one's hear what the relationships are betwixt diverse characters
• Students persuasion the clip without audio too brand deductions almost the topic too mood of the person
• Create essence or specific data questions
• Get your students to sentinel too thence write questions that they would similar to inquire the character
• Get your students to attain too video their ain reply to i of the characters inward the videos
• Get your students to sentinel for cultural data too await for things that would locomote dissimilar amongst their ain civilization (clothes, family objects, agency people interact, gestures etc.)
• Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too the North American serial too lay differences inward the role of language.
  
• Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from each serial without audio too await for cultural too environmental differences betwixt United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North American culture
• Create give-and-take classes around some of the issues touched on inward the clips
  
• Students attain their ain localised version of the series.

What I'm non thence certain about

• Some of the clips comprise violence too bad linguistic communication too exhibit immature people drinking. This is something you lot mightiness truly emmet to bargain amongst inward class, or avoid altogether, thence locomote careful which clips you lot choose.
• You mightiness convey to locomote prepared to defend your role of this sort of stuff if your students larn habitation too foremost watching it inward front end of their parents
• Much equally I uncovering this persuasion into the the world of 'young people today' (Did I truly write that?) quite intriguing I too uncovering it slightly disturbing

Anyway, whether nosotros similar this sort of content or not, it does appear to locomote the sort of matter that is becoming increasingly pop equally meshing entertainment, too if nosotros truly desire to engage amongst our students too engage them inward our classes, I don't mean value nosotros tin afford to ignore it.

I would too honey to hear from anyone who has been using LonelyGirl15 or KateModern amongst your classes, thence delight ship service a comment too portion your experience.

Best

Nik