Thing 12 and 13

Youtube

For this thing, I just typed in "ESL Lesson" and scooped around for  a while. Kind of a boring lecture, but makes sense.

Something like this could be good for a student. I like showing grammar lessons to my students as homework or a review.  It gives them a different take on the concept.  YouTube is really easy to use. I don't like having to filter the garbage. The little pop up adds are annoying but probably a necessary evil for free video.

Here's a cat video I made as a sequel to the original.

The advantages of having sites like TeacherTube are that they organize what you need to find nicely. You can also subscribe to the people who make the videos that you like. So it is a good way to keep up with new videos and save the old ones.

Students could also really benefit from things like this. I've tried to record my students giving presentations but it is always so much work to do it right and give the feedback they need from it.  There is no point in watching it if there is nothing to learn from it.

It would be neat to have students do things though. A colleague of mine came up with the idea to have students create a video and narrate it. That way they practice speaking and vocabulary while making sure they have a citation.  It would be great to have students do it because it would be an opportunity to do a speaking assignment without having it be participation, presentation, or interview. It would give students something else to try.

The advantages of having these videos shared would be that students could share their work with others.  Not only that but when something gets published online, the student can brag about it. Show friends, show relatives. There comes a certain ownership that can come with the things you create.