Over the concluding duet of months I've been busy travelling circular a flake together with doing around aspect upwards to aspect upwards grooming together with workshops. As business office of the materials for these workshops I created a lay out of tasks for teachers which I promise volition assistance develop their mightiness to role technology scientific discipline together with to evaluate together with attain materials using spider web based tools. I've attain upwards one's heed immediately to percentage those tasks together with thence anyone who wants to role them to prepare other teachers or to develop their ain skills tin accept payoff of together with brand skilful role of them.
March 14, 2006
March 13, 2006
Cropping Youtube Videos To Practise Activities
Using YouTube videos amongst students tin endure actually great, but finding a video amongst the exact linguistic communication yous desire together with at a suitable length amongst every bit good many other distractions around tin endure actually difficult. That's why SafeShare.TV is therefore useful.
First respect a YouTube clip that has a department that yous would similar to use. I chose this i from ‘Room amongst a View’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehft3GDw6k. At ix mins it's quite long therefore I simply wanted to job a few sections.
Copy the URL together with and therefore teach to: http://www.safeshare.tv/. Paste the link into the plain together with therefore click on ‘Generate rubber link’.
This volition create a novel link to the video which yous tin together with therefore job amongst your students to present them the clip.
When the students opened upward the link they volition exclusively run across the unmarried video clip amongst it’s title, similar the instance below.
If yous desire to crop the clip therefore that exclusively a brusk component subdivision of it shows, together with therefore generate your rubber URL together with and therefore click on the link that says 'Do yous desire to exclusively percentage a component subdivision of the video? click to crop.' This volition opened upward a small-scale video viewer. Click the video to picket it, together with therefore click on ‘Set Start’ at the showtime of the segment yous desire students to see. Watch the segment together with click ‘Set End’ at the destination of the segment. Now click ‘OK’
Once yous bring clicked 'OK' your rubber link volition endure adapted to exclusively present the department of the video yous bring selected. You tin together with therefore either re-create the link to percentage amongst students or percentage it through a diversity of social networking mediums.
Here's a quick video tutorial showing how to practice this.
You tin download this video here or download a re-create for i-Touch or i-Phone here How tin nosotros job this amongst students? Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities together with tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to picket the whole thing.
- SafeShare.TV is a tool that has ii principal functions. The foremost is to enable yous to percentage YouTube videos using a right away URL that frames the video without the advertising together with other distracting features that mightiness travail students to wander off into less suitable materials.
- The bit together with possibly fifty-fifty to a greater extent than useful role of SafeShare.TV is that it enable yous to crop the video clip therefore that exclusively a detail component subdivision is shown. This is especially useful when yous desire to gear upward activities or tasks around clips that focus students on detail linguistic features.
First respect a YouTube clip that has a department that yous would similar to use. I chose this i from ‘Room amongst a View’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehft3GDw6k. At ix mins it's quite long therefore I simply wanted to job a few sections.
Copy the URL together with and therefore teach to: http://www.safeshare.tv/. Paste the link into the plain together with therefore click on ‘Generate rubber link’.
This volition create a novel link to the video which yous tin together with therefore job amongst your students to present them the clip.
When the students opened upward the link they volition exclusively run across the unmarried video clip amongst it’s title, similar the instance below.
If yous desire to crop the clip therefore that exclusively a brusk component subdivision of it shows, together with therefore generate your rubber URL together with and therefore click on the link that says 'Do yous desire to exclusively percentage a component subdivision of the video? click to crop.' This volition opened upward a small-scale video viewer. Click the video to picket it, together with therefore click on ‘Set Start’ at the showtime of the segment yous desire students to see. Watch the segment together with click ‘Set End’ at the destination of the segment. Now click ‘OK’
Once yous bring clicked 'OK' your rubber link volition endure adapted to exclusively present the department of the video yous bring selected. You tin together with therefore either re-create the link to percentage amongst students or percentage it through a diversity of social networking mediums.
Here's a quick video tutorial showing how to practice this.
You tin download this video here or download a re-create for i-Touch or i-Phone here How tin nosotros job this amongst students? Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities together with tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to picket the whole thing.
- You tin choose instance phrases to present the job of linguistic communication inward context, such every bit a telephone telephone telephone or a scene that shows mortal booking into a hotel etc.
Here’s an example: Booking a hotel room This was trimmed from a much longer clip on YouTube - You tin present students the showtime to a clip together with inquire them to predict what’s ‘going to’ hap next.
Here are ii examples:
1. What's going to happen?
2. What's going to happen?
- You tin present the showtime together with destination of a clip together with inquire students to predict what ‘has happened’ inward between.
Example:
They picket this one
Then this one
- You tin present students a expose of sections from the same clip together with inquire them to social club them either past times using linguistic or visual clues together with explicate their rationale.
Here are v clips for yous to travail to order:
Clip 1
Clip 2
Clip 3
Clip 4
Clip 5
- You tin present each pupil inward a grouping a dissimilar sections of the clip (like the v sections above) together with and therefore inquire them to piece of work together to depict the component subdivision they watched together with seat the dissimilar sections into the right social club every bit a group.
- You tin job the sections to focus on the job of specific structures, similar this i for ‘should have’ Should bring clip or this i for the job of 3rd conditional 3rd conditional clip
- At the destination of these types of activities yous tin present them the consummate clip. http://www.safeshare.tv/v/Tehft3GDw6k
- It’s complimentary together with slow to use
- It gets your students right to the component subdivision of the video yous desire them to see
- It allows yous to easily divide videos into shorter clips
- there’s a elementary ‘bookmarklet’ that yous tin drag to your favourites bar, together with therefore whenever yous respect a YouTube clip your desire to job yous simply click on it to teach the SafeShare.TV link.
- Sometimes it doesn’t piece of work on my MAC
- It would endure corking to bring an embed code every bit good every bit a URL
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- Sending Bubble Joy to your EFL / ESL Students
- Microblogging for EFL amongst Plurk
- Great Video Commenting Tool
- Video conferencing for EFL
- Send Free Video Messages
- Animated Music Videos for EFL
- Creating multimedia stories
- 12 Second Video Clips for EFL ESL
- Tutorial: Using Videos from YouTube
- Great Video Commenting Tool
March 12, 2006
A Tick Listing Of 21St Century Digital Skills For Teachers
I've but been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required past times teachers inwards the 21st Century. So far I've come upwardly up amongst 45 of them.
What's hitting for me most this is:
Teachers Digital Skills Tick List
I'd too hold upwardly rattling interested inwards whatever comments most whatever you lot mean value I've missed or that you lot mean value don't belong there.
Related links:
Nik Peachey
What's hitting for me most this is:
- few of these skills volition bring been taught to anyone who trained every bit a instructor longer than v years ago.
- few of these skills are existence taught to teachers preparation now.
- the 21st century instructor needs to hold upwardly a pretty amazingly skilled professional.
Teachers Digital Skills Tick List
I'd too hold upwardly rattling interested inwards whatever comments most whatever you lot mean value I've missed or that you lot mean value don't belong there.
Related links:
- Online Video: What does it bring to offering teachers together with learners?
- Using wikis for instructor development
- 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools
- Creating a personal homepage
- Social Networks together with the Web 2.0 Revolution: Part 2
- Create your ain social network seven steps
- 120 + Online Activities for Students
Nik Peachey
March 11, 2006
March 10, 2006
3D Reckoner Games Amongst Immature Learners: Spore
In a recent digital skills survey I carried out using Urtak I discovered that to a greater extent than than 50% of digitally skilled teachers don't experience able to utilize 2D as well as 3D calculator games to plough over pedagogical goals (Adventure Narratives for EFL ESL Educational Games That Really Are Fun Exploiting ii computer-based RPGs Games With a Purpose as well as a Social Network 3B Village 3D browser Create your ain game Online Water Conservation Game Wonderland Virtual World as well as MMORPG Google's Lively Competitor alongside Second Life? 3B Village 3D browser Machinima with
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Nik Peachey
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Nik Peachey
March 9, 2006
3 Tools For Exploiting The Wifi During Presentations
Coming equally I produce from a background inwards linguistic communication pedagogy that emphasises that the instructor should nigh upwards too become the students to produce the talking, I ofttimes experience uncomfortable doing conference presentations, many of which even then follow the format of; speaker gets upwards inwards forepart of audience amongst presentation - does presentation - audience nous (try to remain awake) too desperately endeavour to intend of a few questions at the terminate to essay they were awake too listening.
Tap into the Backchannel inwards Your Presentation’
Live polling
Getting audience answer during presentations tin endure done quite easily past times getting a present of hands, but I tend to notice that pretty unsatisfying inwards damage of capturing too sharing data, then I’ve started using a polling / survey tool called Urtak Creating Social Polls too Questionnaires Using Urtak’
Make greenback taking collaborative
Many listeners at presentations produce their best to proceed notes during presentations, then if your audience has wireless connectivity why non become them to produce this collaboratively? H5N1 non bad tool for doing this is Sync.in Collaborative Text Editing Tool for to a greater extent than information on Sync.in.
Of class these tools aren’t simply useful for conference presentations, but tin endure used for online grooming webinars equally good equally classroom pedagogy if you lot operate inwards a wireless enabled classroom environment. Be certain to practise amongst them ane at a fourth dimension origin for brusk tasks equally you lot gradually construct them inwards to your presentation skills repertoire.
Good luck too I promise you lot notice these tools useful too presently convey your audience multitasking equally good equally listening.
Related links:
Nik Peachey
Live polling
Getting audience answer during presentations tin endure done quite easily past times getting a present of hands, but I tend to notice that pretty unsatisfying inwards damage of capturing too sharing data, then I’ve started using a polling / survey tool called Urtak Creating Social Polls too Questionnaires Using Urtak’
Make greenback taking collaborative
Many listeners at presentations produce their best to proceed notes during presentations, then if your audience has wireless connectivity why non become them to produce this collaboratively? H5N1 non bad tool for doing this is Sync.in Collaborative Text Editing Tool for to a greater extent than information on Sync.in.
Of class these tools aren’t simply useful for conference presentations, but tin endure used for online grooming webinars equally good equally classroom pedagogy if you lot operate inwards a wireless enabled classroom environment. Be certain to practise amongst them ane at a fourth dimension origin for brusk tasks equally you lot gradually construct them inwards to your presentation skills repertoire.
Good luck too I promise you lot notice these tools useful too presently convey your audience multitasking equally good equally listening.
Related links:
- Let us Now Praise Famous Women
- The Web 2.0 School of the Present
- Social Networks too the Web 2.0 Revolution: Part 2
- Creating Social Polls too Questionnaires Using Urtak
- Survey Creation Tool for Students
- Create Quick Online Polls
- Create an ESL EFL Video Quiz
- Make your ain chat room
- Express Your Opinions
Nik Peachey
March 8, 2006
Grow Your Ain Personal Learning Network
Well this is my starting fourth dimension weblog posting for quite a while, but I'm hoping to bring a lot to a greater extent than coming upwardly really soon. This is simply a quick posting to portion a session on edifice your ain Personal Learning Network, that I did for teachers inward British Council Bilbao lately (25th September 2010).
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Nik Peachey
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- Here is an illustration of a feed reader page I created. This tin brand capturing data much easier.
Pros in addition to Cons every bit Web Based Research Tasks - Creating Social Polls in addition to Questionnaires Using Urtak
- Social Networks in addition to the Web 2.0 Revolution: Part 2
- The Web 2.0 School of the Present
- Survey Results: Mobile learning for ELT
Nik Peachey
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