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May 21, 2006

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

May 14, 2006

Advertisement Project

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.

Best

Nik

May 8, 2006

Your Big Carbon Feet

I’ve merely seen this novel website called the Carbon Account. It’s assort of an ecology 2.0 social network. Once you lot register you lot fill upwards inwards details close your solid in addition to your travels, the meter readings for your bills in addition to the sum of miles you lot go inwards your automobile etc in addition to it volition in addition to then calculate your carbon emissions for you.

You tin hand notice run into what the carbon emissions of other users are besides in addition to operate at reducing your carbon emissions. You also conduct maintain the pick to network alongside other site users to offering back upwards in addition to encouragement, thus the site is a fleck similar a weight watchers for the environmentally sound!

If you lot desire to run into how it industrial plant in addition to then conduct maintain a await at the video on the site at:

http://www.thecarbonaccount.com/

The site also has or thus good written information on what carbon emissions are and how they are calculated. The site owners tin hand notice also assistance ready exceptional accounts for groups in addition to hand tips on reducing emissions.

This is a actually expert site to base of operations a bird projection on.

Collecting in addition to inputting the relevant information provides a lot of rich vocabulary operate for linguistic communication learners every bit good every bit having a meaningful outcome, in addition to edifice awareness of the surroundings in addition to our behaviour on on it.
Students could monitor their carbon emissions over the course of written report of a few months in addition to run into who tin hand notice cut back them the most.

The solely matter that does bother me close the site, is that it involves parting alongside quite a lot of detailed personal information, but they create appear to conduct maintain a audio a really reassuring privacy policy. So why non hand it a attempt alongside your students.

Hope it goes well

Best

Nik

May 1, 2006

Using Production Reviews

Product review sites are becoming ever to a greater extent than pop on the internet, too why non later all? If you lot are going to pass coin buying something, it's ever a skillful thought to encounter what other people who bought that same production recall of it.

ExpoTV is only that sort of site. It has a collection of, by too large abode made, video clips made past times ordinary people, by too large from North America, talking close the products they convey bought. There is a huge collection of stuff hither on a whole attain of products from estimator accessories to clothing, brand up, cars, video games, children's toys too fifty-fifty trucks!

Here's an instance production review. This i is of i of my favourite products, Apple's i-pod touch

What I liked close the site

The clips are reasonably curt too download quite quickly.
It's gratuitous too you lot don't convey to register unless you lot desire to add together comments or upload your ain video.
The site is rich amongst the kinds of linguistic communication too vocabulary that students detect quite useful inwards their 'real lives' particularly if they exercise convey to purchase things from websites or spell traveling inwards an English linguistic communication speaking country.
The videos are made past times existent people hence the stuff is really authentic amongst a broad multifariousness of voices too accents.
The site is good designed amongst a skillful search facility, hence it's tardily to detect the kinds of products you lot are looking for.
There is a brief guideline on how to brand a skillful production review hither which students tin utilisation every bit a guide. Also some how to video clips that are handy.
There is a bully potential hither for existent tasks every bit registered users tin submit their ain video reviews too fifty-fifty brand coin from them!! (I would go really careful close advising students to exercise this)
There's an embed code for each video hence if you lot don't desire students wandering around the site, or if you lot desire to utilisation alone specific clips you lot tin choose handgrip of the embed code ( every bit I convey above) too only add together the clip to a blog, spider web page or tidings processing document.

How should nosotros utilisation this amongst students?

Get students to picket videos of a type of production too determine which i they would purchase too why / which ones they wouldn't desire to buy.
Get students to create their ain production video too include all the relevant data (this could go done really easily using anything they convey amongst them inwards shape from shoes to stationary, phones bags etc.) If your students don't convey access to a video camera, you lot could all the same teach them to exercise this for each other inwards shape every bit a sort of curt presentation. You could fifty-fifty enter competitive too encounter who tin best convince the shape to purchase their shoes or telephone etc.
Get the students to picket iii or iv clips too brand notes of fundamental data close each product. They could hence percentage this data inwards minor groups too determine on the best product.
Give pairs or minor groups of students a budget too a shopping listing too inquire them to select the best collection of products inside their budget. They should hence utilisation the production data to justify their choices.
Ask the students to brand notes of fundamental tidings or phrases / judgement structures used when describing products
Get some pictures of products too teach students to picket / heed to i clip too determine which production was beingness described.
Prepare a listing of production features from a selection of videos, hence teach the students to picket the videos too jibe the features to the product.
Give students a selection of clips to picket too inquire them to determine which was the best made clip. Ask them to determine why. (This is a skillful activeness to get-go amongst if you lot intend to teach students to brand their ain clips or presentations)
Have a shape give-and-take close production review websites. Here's some possible give-and-take questions.

Have you lot ever used a site similar this before?
Do you lot recall the sites are useful?
Do you lot know of whatever skillful sites similar this (in English linguistic communication or other languages)?
Are the reviews unbiased?
How much confidence exercise they convey inwards such sites?
Why exercise people add together videos to sites similar these?
How exercise the sites brand their money?
Why exercise they pay people to brand video clips?
Would you lot brand a review of a bad product? Why / Why not?

What I wasn't hence certain about

Students tin submit their ain videos too teach paid for them, but I would go really wary of encouraging this particularly for younger students. Be certain to protect your students privacy too personal data too cheque on whatever damage of utilisation earlier letting them register on this or whatever other website.
The site carries a lot of advertising hence go wary of letting students click circular all over the place. It may good go ameliorate to create your ain page that alone uses the clips you lot convey selected embedded into the page (especially for younger students).
Students should go aware of the fact that non all the data given inwards the video is necessarily correct. These are only amateur video makers giving their opinion.

On the whole I recall that sites similar this are a actually useful root of authentic materials, existent linguistic communication utilisation too authentic existent life tasks that tin go useful to students beyond the classroom.

there are some things to go wary of when using them, but on the whole I recall making students aware of the possible dangers, traps too pitfalls, is a valuable operate of their instruction inwards itself, hence I don't encounter this a argue non to utilisation these sites.

Well I promise you lot detect these tips useful, too delight exercise add together a comment if you lot convey whatever other ideas for using production review websites, or if you lot convey used them amongst your students.

Here's the URL of the site inwards instance you lot missed it: http://www.expotv.com

Best

Nik Peachey

April 10, 2006

Photo Assignments For Efl Esl Students Inwards 2D Life

One of the things that I actually similar virtually Teaching Speaking inwards Second Life

Materials blueprint for Virtual Worlds

Teaching English linguistic communication inwards Second Life

Second Life Teacher Training Videos

Looking at There.com

Machinima amongst Moviestorm

3B Village 3D browser

The videos used inwards this posting were originally commissioned past times The Consultants-E together with are business office of an introductory flat for teachers they deliver on Edunation Island II together with are used amongst their variety consent.

Best

Nik Peachey

April 8, 2006

Artificial Tidings Chat Bots In Addition To Efl Esl

Earlier this calendar week I posted a short article to my AI as well as Chat Bots for EFL ESL

Video conferencing for EFL

A Virtual World for Facebook Users

Make your ain chat room

Best

Nik Peachey

March 26, 2006

Online Video: Authentic Genres

Over the by few years video sharing websites possess got acquire increasingly specialised, bringing near the evolution of unlike 'genres' of video sharing sites. As online video increasingly competes alongside TV this has also brought near the evolution of genres of 'micro shows'. These are consummate episodes of shows that accept house inside two - five mins. This is an ideal length both for or 'digital native' students alongside their characteristically shorter attending span, exactly also for our English linguistic communication language students alongside their express mightiness to care alongside longer streams of authentic input. This to a greater extent than specialised content is also ideal for teachers developing materials for content in addition to linguistic communication integrated learning (CLIL)courses or for teachers who desire to prepare video projects.

Product Reviews
There are an increasing set out of specialised video sharing websites similar Using Product Reviews

How to Videos
Video is a swell agency to learn people because you lot tin genuinely run across how they create things equally good equally nous to them . For the same argue it’s a really powerful tool for conveying the pregnant of language. Using 'How to' videos

Advertising projects
The Advertisement Project

Sharing opinions
Video debating website

Micro soaps
The mightiness to percentage curt video clips over the Internet through websites such equally YouTube has led to the creations of diverse novel ‘micro’ genre of TV programmes.

One really pop event is the iii infinitesimal lather opera ‘ Iconic teen video

I promise that this posting has given you lot a expect at or thus of the genres of online video that are available in addition to how to piece of job them. If you lot possess got a item favourite genres delight create last out a comment near it.

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