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.
This is a site I spotted a land dorsum in addition to was genuinely impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to instruct their message across in addition to the whole of the site is worth exploring if y'all are looking for materials to help y'all tackle merely about to a greater extent than controversial issues.
What's on the site?
This is 1 page I works life genuinely useful. On this page y'all tin discovery 10 genuinely useful brusque video cartoons which trace the diverse rights of children. They accept depression in addition to high bandwidth versions, then fifty-fifty if y'all are on equally depression network connecter it would move possible to download the smaller videos inwards a reasonable amount of time. The videos are not verbal, then they could move used amongst lower levels too.
Here's a lesson plan I had a quick endeavor at creating a lesson innovation for them. This should move usable amongst students who are at an intermediate or higher level.
It includes atomic number 82 inwards tasks equally good equally discussion, viewing in addition to follow upward tasks. You could genuinely role merely about bits of it fifty-fifty if y'all can't plough over your students access to the site.
You tin download it inwards pdf format from here: Lesson innovation (39k pdf)
If y'all role it, delight come upward dorsum in addition to instruct out a comment hither in addition to experience gratis to instruct out a proposition for whatsoever improvements or variations y'all tin intend of.
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.
This is a useful site if y'all are pedagogy pronunciation. Though it could accept precisely about fourth dimension to charge the get-go fourth dimension y'all role it.
There is a phonemic nautical chart which has pocket-sized sound clips of the phonemes along amongst video clips that demo the rima oris movements every bit the sounds are made. (Be warned, this is quite a large file)
You merely click on the rima oris as well as and then lookout adult man as well as listen. I’m non therefore certain how helpful seeing the rima oris is amongst precisely about of the sounds, but amongst precisely about it could survive quite helpful.
Because the nautical chart is a Flash (swf) file if y'all correct click on it, y'all tin strength out ‘zoom in’ as well as this makes the sentiment of the rima oris much larger. You tin strength out fifty-fifty create amount the whole concealment amongst precisely i clip if y'all desire to, though this looks a flake scary!
If y'all role the carte du jour at the side y'all tin strength out plough off the symbols as well as precisely direct keep the video clips, therefore y'all could role this for a phonemic dictation activity. (Students heed as well as write downwards the phoneme they here)
You could likewise role it to pronounce words piece your educatee essay to spell them out (in touchstone script)
Also if y'all click the nautical chart where it says ‘Words’ y'all volition come across a give-and-take nautical chart as well as clicking the words that are inwards blueish gives y'all a page amongst the dissimilar sounds that brand upward that word.
The page is at that topographic point to promote the software that the fellowship ‘Thrass’ is selling. I haven’t tried the software, therefore I don’t know if it is whatever good. If anyone does essay it or purchase it could y'all post service a comment to scope what y'all mean value of it?
Also delight post service ideas for activities using the costless page if y'all mean value of any.
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.
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/
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 been having a await at a novel website (still inwards beta) which I mean value has about non bad educational / linguistic communication learning potential. It's called look at this before tutorial to come across how this is done), or add together it to your Delicious, Facebook or Digg accounts.What I wasn’t together with then keen on
It takes a spell to acquire registered. The procedure itself is quite quick, merely you lot ask to click a confirmation link which is sent to your e-mail address together with this took a expert hr to arrive, together with then it’s best to acquire yourself together with / or your students registered good inwards advance.
I’m non certain whether in that place is whatever editing or censorship before comments together with opinions become live. The potential for abuse together with misuse is huge. The site is really serious together with if user don’t get got the site seriously it could easily hold out swamped yesteryear rather uninteresting together with poorly idea out opinions. With nearly Web 2.0 sites the vast bulk of what is on them is rubbish, merely the remaining 5% is pure gold.
I also noticed amongst my ain question, that 1 time you lot add together 1 you lot can’t acquire rid of it or edit it (which I would immediately similar to hold out able to do). Adding this characteristic mightiness attention to ensure higher character through self censorship.
Despite these slight drawbacks I mean value this is definitely a useful site together with it has loads of potential. Do driblet me a business if you lot purpose it amongst your class.
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.
This is a site I spotted a land dorsum in addition to was genuinely impressed by. UNICEF are creating lots of rich media to instruct their message across in addition to the whole of the site is worth exploring if y'all are looking for materials to help y'all tackle merely about to a greater extent than controversial issues.
What's on the site?
This is 1 page I works life genuinely useful. On this page y'all tin discovery 10 genuinely useful brusque video cartoons which trace the diverse rights of children. They accept depression in addition to high bandwidth versions, then fifty-fifty if y'all are on equally depression network connecter it would move possible to download the smaller videos inwards a reasonable amount of time. The videos are not verbal, then they could move used amongst lower levels too.
Here's a lesson plan I had a quick endeavor at creating a lesson innovation for them. This should move usable amongst students who are at an intermediate or higher level.
It includes atomic number 82 inwards tasks equally good equally discussion, viewing in addition to follow upward tasks. You could genuinely role merely about bits of it fifty-fifty if y'all can't plough over your students access to the site.
You tin download it inwards pdf format from here: Lesson innovation (39k pdf)
If y'all role it, delight come upward dorsum in addition to instruct out a comment hither in addition to experience gratis to instruct out a proposition for whatsoever improvements or variations y'all tin intend of.
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.
This is a useful site if y'all are pedagogy pronunciation. Though it could accept precisely about fourth dimension to charge the get-go fourth dimension y'all role it.
There is a phonemic nautical chart which has pocket-sized sound clips of the phonemes along amongst video clips that demo the rima oris movements every bit the sounds are made. (Be warned, this is quite a large file)
You merely click on the rima oris as well as and then lookout adult man as well as listen. I’m non therefore certain how helpful seeing the rima oris is amongst precisely about of the sounds, but amongst precisely about it could survive quite helpful.
Because the nautical chart is a Flash (swf) file if y'all correct click on it, y'all tin strength out ‘zoom in’ as well as this makes the sentiment of the rima oris much larger. You tin strength out fifty-fifty create amount the whole concealment amongst precisely i clip if y'all desire to, though this looks a flake scary!
If y'all role the carte du jour at the side y'all tin strength out plough off the symbols as well as precisely direct keep the video clips, therefore y'all could role this for a phonemic dictation activity. (Students heed as well as write downwards the phoneme they here)
You could likewise role it to pronounce words piece your educatee essay to spell them out (in touchstone script)
Also if y'all click the nautical chart where it says ‘Words’ y'all volition come across a give-and-take nautical chart as well as clicking the words that are inwards blueish gives y'all a page amongst the dissimilar sounds that brand upward that word.
The page is at that topographic point to promote the software that the fellowship ‘Thrass’ is selling. I haven’t tried the software, therefore I don’t know if it is whatever good. If anyone does essay it or purchase it could y'all post service a comment to scope what y'all mean value of it?
Also delight post service ideas for activities using the costless page if y'all mean value of any.
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.
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/
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 been having a await at a novel website (still inwards beta) which I mean value has about non bad educational / linguistic communication learning potential. It's called look at this before tutorial to come across how this is done), or add together it to your Delicious, Facebook or Digg accounts.What I wasn’t together with then keen on
It takes a spell to acquire registered. The procedure itself is quite quick, merely you lot ask to click a confirmation link which is sent to your e-mail address together with this took a expert hr to arrive, together with then it’s best to acquire yourself together with / or your students registered good inwards advance.
I’m non certain whether in that place is whatever editing or censorship before comments together with opinions become live. The potential for abuse together with misuse is huge. The site is really serious together with if user don’t get got the site seriously it could easily hold out swamped yesteryear rather uninteresting together with poorly idea out opinions. With nearly Web 2.0 sites the vast bulk of what is on them is rubbish, merely the remaining 5% is pure gold.
I also noticed amongst my ain question, that 1 time you lot add together 1 you lot can’t acquire rid of it or edit it (which I would immediately similar to hold out able to do). Adding this characteristic mightiness attention to ensure higher character through self censorship.
Despite these slight drawbacks I mean value this is definitely a useful site together with it has loads of potential. Do driblet me a business if you lot purpose it amongst your class.
I know that it's piece of cake to live on cynical close Microsoft, simply every directly as well as therefore they practise create bully things for free! Photo Story iii is 1 of those bully things, as well as yeah it is free!
Photo Story iii a slice of gratis software that yous tin download to your PC as well as operate to practise multimedia photograph stories consummate alongside images, transitions, effects, text, background music as well as your ain vocalization narration.
I know in that location are a lot of online Web 2.0 ap that practise all of this too, simply for those of us alongside slower, unreliable or to a greater extent than expensive connections, it's prissy to cause got a fleck of software that tin practise the chore for us without using whatsoever bandwidth at all (apart from downloading it of course).
You should live on able to download Photo Story iii from here. It's a v Mb download, therefore that shouldn't cause got besides long fifty-fifty over a dial upwards connection.
How to operate this alongside students You tin operate it to practise multimedia materials for your students, whether is for operate inwards degree or to cause got dwelling solid for homework. Here's some things yous tin do:
Create some narratives for them to view
Create narratives which illustrate grammer points
Create a serial of pictures as well as words which illustrate dissimilar sounds from the Phonemic alphabet
Having software similar this that tin create a professional person looking terminate production tin live on actually motivating for students as well as actually aid them to force themselves to create accurate polished work. Here's some things yous tin acquire your students to do: It's ideal for presenting the results of projection work.
Get the students to cause got photographs as well as upload them to tell their ain stories to the class
What they practise each day
What they did at the weekend / on holiday
Stories close their family
Get some pictures from Flickr as well as acquire the students to guild them as well as practise a storey or therefore them.
What I liked close it
It's free
Easy to operate as well as quick to learn
Really liked some of the filter effects
Liked the way yous tin easily practise a broad gain of background musics
File sizes were quite reasonable as well as exports pretty easily for a seat out of dissimilar devices
What I wasn't therefore keen on
It's a shame that it's therefore express inwards the the formats that it exports to (mainly dissimilar sizes of wmv) , simply I approximate in that location are enough of converters yous could operate if yous wanted to modify it for an i-pod or something similar that.
I also thought that a fleck to a greater extent than command over how the text was placed over the images would cause got been actually handy.
There's no version for MAC of course, simply if yous cause got a MAC yous won't ask this every bit yous acquire lots of prissy stuff that does all this for yous ready installed when yous purchase it.
Photo Story iii isn't a revolutionary slice of software yesteryear whatsoever means, simply I'm certain it tin live on used to actually engage your students inwards some enjoyable learning.
