I've but been having a hold back at TeacherTube, the novel video sharing website designed specifically for teachers. I intend this is a potentially actually useful resource. It enables teachers to upload in addition to part videos, either publicly, amongst anyone who visits the site or privately inwards 'groups'. The groups characteristic enables yous to bound who tin encounter your videos in addition to could travel actually useful if yous solely wanted to part specific videos amongst your students. You tin encounter a tutorial on how to create this past times clicking here.
What's on the site?
There are quite a few videos on at that topographic point already, but they vary inwards lineament in addition to usefulness enormously!
They are categorised in addition to yous banking concern jibe out the diverse categories or 'channels' equally they telephone yell upwards them, past times going to this page: http://www.teachertube.com/channels.php
There is a channel for World languages, which at the minute is pretty small-scale in addition to limited. There are too quite a few on technology in addition to i on professional development. These aren't aimed at ELT but to a greater extent than or less of them could travel quite useful.
My favourite category was the channel dedicated to using TeacherTubeas it has quite a few informative, curt videos on how to larn the best out of the site.
What's most useful? A couplet of the most useful videos I establish were this one on how to travel Cam Studio. Cam Studio is a useful fleck of complimentary / opened upwards origin software which allows yous to tape whatever covert drive in addition to well that occurs on your computer. This is actually useful for making whatever form of video calculator tutorials for your students. You tin respect out to a greater extent than almost Cam Studio here: http://www.camstudio.org/ in addition to download it from hither (2.2Mb): http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/
And scout the video hither to encounter how it works.
Another useful video was i showing how to brand posters using Microsoft Excel. This i could fifty-fifty travel used equally a listening delineate amongst your students. If they were viewing it 'full screen', the combination of the well in addition to the video covert movements should travel plenty for them to empathize it. It's too a adept illustration of what yous tin brand using Cam Studio.
You tin accept a hold back here:
If yous travel this or accept a hold back in addition to spot whatever useful videos for ELT, delight add together a link inwards the comments department below.
I’ve only seen that the BBC has released a lot of its ain internal staff grooming courses together with made them available gratis online at: http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
What's on the site? I’ve had a await through the courses together with they truly are good, particularly if you lot desire to survive amongst sound for podcasts or video for projects. Some of them are rattling short, thus fifty-fifty if you lot solely induce got 10 – xv mins to spare you lot tin withal teach or thus evolution from them. I looked at i on interviewing for radio:
This i has or thus truly useful sound files of interviews which you lot could truly purpose amongst your students for listening activities. There is also a collection of brusque vox pops interviews which induce got a huge attain of unlike UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland accents.
It had lots of brusque video clips amongst sound voice over together with they all had text transcriptions available. The clips were all quite short, thus they wouldn’t accept every 2d good long to download fifty-fifty if you lot induce got a ho-hum connection.
There are also quite a few on the software together with engineering side of editing the materials. All of them induce got clear ho-hum commentary together with nifty visuals. This truly is useful textile fifty-fifty for people who are basic beginners amongst this sort of technology.
A truly useful site whether you’re looking for authentic listening materials for your students, educational activity journalism or media classes or looking to develop your ain might together with agreement of video together with sound technology.
There's a real handy spider web based tool called Screencast-o-matic that I've precisely spotted. If y'all instruct to the website as well as but click on 'Create' y'all should move able to tape as well as brand movies of your on covert activity. This isn't anything novel every bit in that place are quite a few software tools that y'all tin either purchase or download to utilization this, but what's skilful nearly this tool every bit that it all plant through the spider web page as well as also allows y'all to create an employment concern human relationship as well as salve your screencasts online. This makes it much easier to portion them.
The tool is real tardily to purpose as well as it looks similar it's fifty-fifty capable of recording roughly quite complex covert activity, such every bit gaming as well as 3D virtual worlds. You tin also tape well vocalisation over. Great materials as well as all free.
I’ve merely been looking at a actually first-class Beta site called Dot Sub
The site is an interesting adaptation of the Youtube model. People tin upload videos (up to 300Mb) together with portion them alongside express groups or with everyone.
What’s actually interesting though most Dot Sub is that it is aimed at subtitling together with translation for people with hearing problems. The video tool allows you lot to input subtitles beneath the clip. These tin either endure translations or transcriptions. Users tin also upload clips for others to interpret for them. The site isn’t express to English linguistic communication solely together with thence the translations or transcriptions for the subtitles together with celluloid clips could endure inwards whatsoever language.
This is actually a marvelous persuasion together with has bags of potential for linguistic communication instruction together with development.
Here’s a few ideas off the transcend of my head.
Upload a celluloid clip (in English) together with enquire students to interpret or transcribe it. They tin thence compare with your ain translation / transcription.
Transcribe a clip with roughly errors together with encounter if they tin location / right them.
Ask students to independently interpret a clip of a poetry form together with thence compare their dissimilar versions.
Ask students to practise their ain video clips (If students bring their ain cameras or webcams) upload them together with thence become roughly other fellow member of the course of report to transcribe it.
They could merely browse together with interpret or transcribe i of the existing videos.
Transcribe inwards what people are thinking equally opposed to what they are saying
Here’s a video produced past times the site with a really fast explanation of how it all works.
The site is costless together with registration is quite quick. So banking concern fit it out at: http://www.dotsub.com By all agency allow me know what you lot hollo back together with postal service a comment here.
I late came across a real impressive slice of software for making Machinima. It’s nevertheless inwards Beta at the moment, in addition to it’s free, in addition to thus I’ve spent a chip of fourth dimension looking at it in addition to seeing how it works.
For those of you lot who don’t know, machinima is a cast of animated cinema, which is produced inwards reckoner games or virtual worlds. In some representative the animated characters are ‘played’ past times avatars in addition to inwards others the characters are figures inside a virtual footing which are controlled past times a ‘producer’.
Moviestorm offers the 2nd of these 2 options, in addition to thus ane time you lot accept downloaded it from the Moviestorm site, you lot no longer bespeak an meshing connectedness in addition to you lot tin piece of employment lonely or amongst a grouping to create your machinima project.
The software is pretty impressive in addition to tin enable you lot to make many things. You can;
create phase sets in addition to characters,
place the characters on the set
get them to displace in addition to interact amongst each other in addition to diverse props
place cameras around the laid upwardly to celluloid the activity from unlike places
create in addition to tape a script for your characters
lip-sync the animated characters amongst the recorded dialogue
cut, edit in addition to homecoming your terminal motion painting inwards a format which tin easily move distributed on the spider web or CD.
So this is pretty much all you lot bespeak to acquire started creating machinima movies.
So why make this amongst students? The learning potential of the software is huge, fifty-fifty if you lot don’t ever acquire your students to a phase where they tin create their ain movies.
You tin acquire them to create characters in addition to alter them to exercise linguistic communication of description
You tin utilisation it to exercise a whole hit of clothing, colours in addition to textures
You tin acquire them to create a laid upwardly in addition to house things to exercise prepositions of place
You tin create your ain movies to demonstrate a whole hit of prepositions of movement, diverse tenses
You tin add together dialogue to the movies to demonstrate functional in addition to intercommunicative language
Personally I experience though that the software is ideal for projection work. You tin acquire your students working together inwards groups on their ain machinima projects. They tin correct a enshroud play in addition to a script it. Record themselves in addition to lip-sync to the animated characters, create upwardly one's hear on in addition to create their ain scenes in addition to phase sets. Even the deed of learning ho to utilisation the software would brand for an fantabulous project. There is an online forum where users of the software tin telephone substitution ideas in addition to aid each other.
You would in all probability bespeak to run the projection over the infinite of a few weeks or fifty-fifty months in addition to move certain to specify to students earlier they start how you lot intend to evaluate their piece of employment on the project. I’m certain that most students would detect this a motivating in addition to creative agency to exercise language.
What I liked virtually it
It’s free, non also hard to larn in addition to doesn’t involve whatsoever programming skill.
Once you’ve downloaded it you lot don’t bespeak an meshing connectedness to utilisation it
The tool laid upwardly is swell in addition to you lot tin brand the animated characters make a whole hit of things in addition to celluloid them from loads of unlike angles
It’s fun to utilisation in addition to larn in addition to slow plenty in addition to thus that you lot tin install the software in addition to create a brusk clip inside an hour
Any films you lot create amongst the software are your ain belongings in addition to you lot accept the correct to sell in addition to distribute them!!
What I wasn’t in addition to thus certain about
It’s a large download (almost 200Mb) in addition to thus you’ll either bespeak a adept connectedness or a lot of patience to download it.
There are expansion packs amongst to a greater extent than phase sets, props in addition to characters only you lot accept to pay for these (not that you lot actually bespeak them)
There’s no MAC version in addition to you lot bespeak a pretty adept graphics carte du jour in addition to a lot of RAM for it to run easily
On the whole I recollect this is actually ane to watch. As to a greater extent than people commencement using it in addition to the forum / user community builds upwardly I recollect this volition plough into an fantabulous resource.
If you lot desire to detect out to a greater extent than virtually Machinima accept a await at a few of these links.
Machinima.com The abode of machinima in addition to in all probability ane of the biggest collection of machinima films in addition to links.
Machinima in addition to education An interesting article from Futurelab on the uses in addition to benefits of including machinima inwards education
SecondLifeVideo.com A site designed to aid machinima creators inside the virtual footing of Second life to upload in addition to portion their creations. Here’s a widegt from their site that shows some of the arts machinima existence created inwards SL
Wikipedia More information in addition to a Definition from Wikipedia
I promise you lot taste the software in addition to I would dearest to hear comments from anyone who gets their students working amongst it.
I've but been having a hold back at TeacherTube, the novel video sharing website designed specifically for teachers. I intend this is a potentially actually useful resource. It enables teachers to upload in addition to part videos, either publicly, amongst anyone who visits the site or privately inwards 'groups'. The groups characteristic enables yous to bound who tin encounter your videos in addition to could travel actually useful if yous solely wanted to part specific videos amongst your students. You tin encounter a tutorial on how to create this past times clicking here.
What's on the site?
There are quite a few videos on at that topographic point already, but they vary inwards lineament in addition to usefulness enormously!
They are categorised in addition to yous banking concern jibe out the diverse categories or 'channels' equally they telephone yell upwards them, past times going to this page: http://www.teachertube.com/channels.php
There is a channel for World languages, which at the minute is pretty small-scale in addition to limited. There are too quite a few on technology in addition to i on professional development. These aren't aimed at ELT but to a greater extent than or less of them could travel quite useful.
My favourite category was the channel dedicated to using TeacherTubeas it has quite a few informative, curt videos on how to larn the best out of the site.
What's most useful? A couplet of the most useful videos I establish were this one on how to travel Cam Studio. Cam Studio is a useful fleck of complimentary / opened upwards origin software which allows yous to tape whatever covert drive in addition to well that occurs on your computer. This is actually useful for making whatever form of video calculator tutorials for your students. You tin respect out to a greater extent than almost Cam Studio here: http://www.camstudio.org/ in addition to download it from hither (2.2Mb): http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/
And scout the video hither to encounter how it works.
Another useful video was i showing how to brand posters using Microsoft Excel. This i could fifty-fifty travel used equally a listening delineate amongst your students. If they were viewing it 'full screen', the combination of the well in addition to the video covert movements should travel plenty for them to empathize it. It's too a adept illustration of what yous tin brand using Cam Studio.
You tin accept a hold back here:
If yous travel this or accept a hold back in addition to spot whatever useful videos for ELT, delight add together a link inwards the comments department below.
I’ve only seen that the BBC has released a lot of its ain internal staff grooming courses together with made them available gratis online at: http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
What's on the site? I’ve had a await through the courses together with they truly are good, particularly if you lot desire to survive amongst sound for podcasts or video for projects. Some of them are rattling short, thus fifty-fifty if you lot solely induce got 10 – xv mins to spare you lot tin withal teach or thus evolution from them. I looked at i on interviewing for radio:
This i has or thus truly useful sound files of interviews which you lot could truly purpose amongst your students for listening activities. There is also a collection of brusque vox pops interviews which induce got a huge attain of unlike UK of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland accents.
It had lots of brusque video clips amongst sound voice over together with they all had text transcriptions available. The clips were all quite short, thus they wouldn’t accept every 2d good long to download fifty-fifty if you lot induce got a ho-hum connection.
There are also quite a few on the software together with engineering side of editing the materials. All of them induce got clear ho-hum commentary together with nifty visuals. This truly is useful textile fifty-fifty for people who are basic beginners amongst this sort of technology.
A truly useful site whether you’re looking for authentic listening materials for your students, educational activity journalism or media classes or looking to develop your ain might together with agreement of video together with sound technology.
There's a real handy spider web based tool called Screencast-o-matic that I've precisely spotted. If y'all instruct to the website as well as but click on 'Create' y'all should move able to tape as well as brand movies of your on covert activity. This isn't anything novel every bit in that place are quite a few software tools that y'all tin either purchase or download to utilization this, but what's skilful nearly this tool every bit that it all plant through the spider web page as well as also allows y'all to create an employment concern human relationship as well as salve your screencasts online. This makes it much easier to portion them.
The tool is real tardily to purpose as well as it looks similar it's fifty-fifty capable of recording roughly quite complex covert activity, such every bit gaming as well as 3D virtual worlds. You tin also tape well vocalisation over. Great materials as well as all free.
I’ve merely been looking at a actually first-class Beta site called Dot Sub
The site is an interesting adaptation of the Youtube model. People tin upload videos (up to 300Mb) together with portion them alongside express groups or with everyone.
What’s actually interesting though most Dot Sub is that it is aimed at subtitling together with translation for people with hearing problems. The video tool allows you lot to input subtitles beneath the clip. These tin either endure translations or transcriptions. Users tin also upload clips for others to interpret for them. The site isn’t express to English linguistic communication solely together with thence the translations or transcriptions for the subtitles together with celluloid clips could endure inwards whatsoever language.
This is actually a marvelous persuasion together with has bags of potential for linguistic communication instruction together with development.
Here’s a few ideas off the transcend of my head.
Upload a celluloid clip (in English) together with enquire students to interpret or transcribe it. They tin thence compare with your ain translation / transcription.
Transcribe a clip with roughly errors together with encounter if they tin location / right them.
Ask students to independently interpret a clip of a poetry form together with thence compare their dissimilar versions.
Ask students to practise their ain video clips (If students bring their ain cameras or webcams) upload them together with thence become roughly other fellow member of the course of report to transcribe it.
They could merely browse together with interpret or transcribe i of the existing videos.
Transcribe inwards what people are thinking equally opposed to what they are saying
Here’s a video produced past times the site with a really fast explanation of how it all works.
The site is costless together with registration is quite quick. So banking concern fit it out at: http://www.dotsub.com By all agency allow me know what you lot hollo back together with postal service a comment here.
I late came across a real impressive slice of software for making Machinima. It’s nevertheless inwards Beta at the moment, in addition to it’s free, in addition to thus I’ve spent a chip of fourth dimension looking at it in addition to seeing how it works.
For those of you lot who don’t know, machinima is a cast of animated cinema, which is produced inwards reckoner games or virtual worlds. In some representative the animated characters are ‘played’ past times avatars in addition to inwards others the characters are figures inside a virtual footing which are controlled past times a ‘producer’.
Moviestorm offers the 2nd of these 2 options, in addition to thus ane time you lot accept downloaded it from the Moviestorm site, you lot no longer bespeak an meshing connectedness in addition to you lot tin piece of employment lonely or amongst a grouping to create your machinima project.
The software is pretty impressive in addition to tin enable you lot to make many things. You can;
create phase sets in addition to characters,
place the characters on the set
get them to displace in addition to interact amongst each other in addition to diverse props
place cameras around the laid upwardly to celluloid the activity from unlike places
create in addition to tape a script for your characters
lip-sync the animated characters amongst the recorded dialogue
cut, edit in addition to homecoming your terminal motion painting inwards a format which tin easily move distributed on the spider web or CD.
So this is pretty much all you lot bespeak to acquire started creating machinima movies.
So why make this amongst students? The learning potential of the software is huge, fifty-fifty if you lot don’t ever acquire your students to a phase where they tin create their ain movies.
You tin acquire them to create characters in addition to alter them to exercise linguistic communication of description
You tin utilisation it to exercise a whole hit of clothing, colours in addition to textures
You tin acquire them to create a laid upwardly in addition to house things to exercise prepositions of place
You tin create your ain movies to demonstrate a whole hit of prepositions of movement, diverse tenses
You tin add together dialogue to the movies to demonstrate functional in addition to intercommunicative language
Personally I experience though that the software is ideal for projection work. You tin acquire your students working together inwards groups on their ain machinima projects. They tin correct a enshroud play in addition to a script it. Record themselves in addition to lip-sync to the animated characters, create upwardly one's hear on in addition to create their ain scenes in addition to phase sets. Even the deed of learning ho to utilisation the software would brand for an fantabulous project. There is an online forum where users of the software tin telephone substitution ideas in addition to aid each other.
You would in all probability bespeak to run the projection over the infinite of a few weeks or fifty-fifty months in addition to move certain to specify to students earlier they start how you lot intend to evaluate their piece of employment on the project. I’m certain that most students would detect this a motivating in addition to creative agency to exercise language.
What I liked virtually it
It’s free, non also hard to larn in addition to doesn’t involve whatsoever programming skill.
Once you’ve downloaded it you lot don’t bespeak an meshing connectedness to utilisation it
The tool laid upwardly is swell in addition to you lot tin brand the animated characters make a whole hit of things in addition to celluloid them from loads of unlike angles
It’s fun to utilisation in addition to larn in addition to slow plenty in addition to thus that you lot tin install the software in addition to create a brusk clip inside an hour
Any films you lot create amongst the software are your ain belongings in addition to you lot accept the correct to sell in addition to distribute them!!
What I wasn’t in addition to thus certain about
It’s a large download (almost 200Mb) in addition to thus you’ll either bespeak a adept connectedness or a lot of patience to download it.
There are expansion packs amongst to a greater extent than phase sets, props in addition to characters only you lot accept to pay for these (not that you lot actually bespeak them)
There’s no MAC version in addition to you lot bespeak a pretty adept graphics carte du jour in addition to a lot of RAM for it to run easily
On the whole I recollect this is actually ane to watch. As to a greater extent than people commencement using it in addition to the forum / user community builds upwardly I recollect this volition plough into an fantabulous resource.
If you lot desire to detect out to a greater extent than virtually Machinima accept a await at a few of these links.
Machinima.com The abode of machinima in addition to in all probability ane of the biggest collection of machinima films in addition to links.
Machinima in addition to education An interesting article from Futurelab on the uses in addition to benefits of including machinima inwards education
SecondLifeVideo.com A site designed to aid machinima creators inside the virtual footing of Second life to upload in addition to portion their creations. Here’s a widegt from their site that shows some of the arts machinima existence created inwards SL
Wikipedia More information in addition to a Definition from Wikipedia
I promise you lot taste the software in addition to I would dearest to hear comments from anyone who gets their students working amongst it.
celtx amongst your students to help railroad train your project The ads on the site aren't of a terrifically high / professional person quality, they're mainly novel, thence it isn't beyond the agency of your students to compete amongst these.
If y'all don't accept filming facilities / photographic tv set camera together with then y'all could simply larn out your students to accept a expect at the ones that accept been made inwards the archive together with determine which they recollect is most effective / which volition win.
What I liked close the site
Really attractive together with user friendly interface
Really really authentic, motivating together with a conduct chances to brand some money!!
It's free
It's slowly to larn out an embed code thence that y'all tin post away add together the videos to your ain materials if y'all don't desire your students to genuinely thought the site.
What I wasn't thence certain about
Still early on days for this site, thence it could move a huge success or past times the fourth dimension y'all read this it may accept disappeared along amongst a nifty many other Web 2.0 type sites!!
Anyway, I promise y'all savour it together with larn out to role it earlier that happens.
