Showing posts with label Visual learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual learning. Show all posts

Friday, 17 February 2012

Dvolver Moviemaker

 is a good website for creating simple videos to present some idea. You choose on of many settings to create the video you like and you can also add music to the video. then, you can send them to as many recipients as you want via email.

this website can be used in classroom context to demonstrate certain ideas in an unusual way. it is perfect for teenagers, and good for young learners. the teacher can teach students dialogue patterns using this website like in this example. also, this can be used to present examples of grammatical rules. then the video can be presented in the classroom. another idea is that the teacher can ask the students to make a video about the topic they had in the class which can be a grammatical rule and they can make a conversation or a short scene using this rule and send it to the teacher for feedback.
this website is limited in terms of the options offered. and it is limited in time and space available for writing so you should be concise and brief.

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Marco Polo


Using videos in classroom helps to motivate students and encourage them to talk in class. There is a number of sites from which the teacher can choose a video. One of these sites is Teacher Tube 
 I have chosen a video from this website about Marco Polo the famous traveler who had his journey through the silk road. This video is very suitable to be used in classrooms because it is less than six minutes long what ensures enough time for the teacher to repeat the video for the student to watch more carefully and discuss it with them. It is suitable for students in the intermediate school who have a previous knowledge of English. The teacher can start the lesson by introducing the new vocabulary. After watching the video, the teacher can engage the students into a group discussion by asking few questions about the video.


Thus, this  video helps students to improve their listening skills while linking the linguistic information with the visual information in addition to the speaking skills which are improved through the discussion. Also there is the historical information that they can get by understanding the video.