This presentation shared how students can document their language development over time through the use of video blogging. At the beginning of a learning journey, their first post documents their starting point and watching more examples over time demonstrates their language growth and allows them to reflect on their improvement. Additionally, communicating using technology is a 21st century skill that will be developed in many future careers and is an important skill for teachers to support.
To begin planning video blogging it was recommended that you consider the questions of What do students want to share? What are their users (eg: family/friends/link classroom) want to hear about? This can then be matched to the students’ language level to find appropriate topics for a video blog. With students, a good starting point is viewing existing student media in your language to brainstorm topics and styles; seeing other students’ work can capture their imagination and show them how they to can achieve this. Also, students are likely to need basic training with a suitable piece of software if they are not familiar with one and once they are more confident and familiar they can then choose their own techniques and platforms. Upon sharing examples of their video blogs with their peers, they students were often reflective and considered how they could use the techniques or styles they had seen others use, leading to videos that shared the personality of the students and perhaps even some competitive spirit! A final project was something that was more independent, where students had explored their own choice of topic and shared what they have learnt in their final presentation. It was suggested that students can share with other classrooms such as through an iEARN project, giving purpose to their presentations. Top tips that were given were the students can start with unedited clips of audio or video recording, use authentic contexts and situations and search out native speakers for the students to interact with such as at a local restaurant or organisation. Also, see http://www.nsliforyouth.org/ Thank you for sharing, it was a really informative presentation and I look forward to sharing this with my colleagues and soon getting some videos ready to be shared with the world!
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AuthorEmma Ahmed is a learning coach and curriculum coordinator at International Schools. Archives
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