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EV Fair Session (Friday 27th March 9.30-10.30 am)
by Pamela ArrarásThisEVFaireventisappropriateforalllevelsbutwillfocusonusingtheseresourcesintheK-12(primary andsecondary)level.IwilldemonstratehowtousevideosavailableonlineonsitessuchasTeacherTube; YouTubeandITunestoteachintegratedskills.Theparticipantswilllearnhowtofind;download;embedand/orstreamvideosavailablefromdifferentonlinesources;andwillbeabletoseeexamplesofactivitiesthatenhancelanguagelearningbyusingauthenticmedia.Activitiesinclude:creativewriting;content- basedteaching;online-basedquizzesthatusevideosasinput;andhowtousevideosinblogs;wikisandlearningmanagementsystemssuchasMoodle.Thedemonstrationwillalsoincludetipsonhowtowork withtheseresourcesinK-12schoolswheremanyofthesewebsitesareblocked;bylearninghowtodownloadandsavethesevideostoflashdrivesandotherstoringdevices.Ahandoutwithalistofonlineresources will be available in print at the EV Fair and online through GoogleDocs.
Contents of this Guide:
Step 1.Finding Suitable VideosStep 2.How to play videos downloaded from the internetStep 3.Free software for downloading videosStep 4:Ideas & activities using videos
Websites where you can find videos:
PBSDiscovery Education VeohGoogle VideoTeacher TubeResearch ChannelBlipTV UNICEF VideocastsMetacafeBiography CNN Student News Animal PlanetTeachers TV EduTube WonderHowToFree TV Channels: Education sectionOnline Videos for Language DevelopmentTeachers Domain
Video Tutorial
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Great news for those of you who like developing authentic EFL ESL materials around news clips:CNNis now making available an embed code from each of it’s video news clips, so we can now embed theseinto blog pages or online multimedia materials and develop great authentic and up to date EFL ESLlearning materials for our students.Tutorial: Using Videos from YouTubeSubtitling your video clipsTranscribed Videos for EFL ESLUsing Product ReviewsTackling political issuesIconic teen video Video debating website Advertisement ProjectUsing ‘How to’ videos
Step 2:Ok, but how do I play them?
Video Players
The following links will take you to free downloads for two different video players. Remember to check thefiles with an antivirus before opening them, just in case!
Description / Feature summary:
•Play FLV files on any Windows PC.•Double-click files in File Explorer to play them automatically.•Zoom 50% - 100% - 200% and full screen.•Double click video view-port to toggle full screen.•Drag-and-drop multiple files.•Play URL’s, Streams and Local Files.•Remember position on screen at next launch.•Remember audio settings at next launch•Optional video smoothing for fast CPU’s. VLC Media PlayerDescription: VLC media player is a highly portable
multimedia player
for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1,MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as
DVD
s,
VCD
s, and various
streaming
protocols.Note:I use the VLCmedia player because I haven’t found a video that it can’t play. Also, it allows subtitles, which is very useful once you learn how to use it!
Downloading Tools
If your school doesn’t allow you to access the site where the video is located (it happens with You Tubequite often) or you don’t have internet at your school/classroom, you can many times download them to your computer and then take them to school on aUSB flash drive.There are 2 options for downloading videos:a. Install a program on your pc that will download the videos for you. Examples of those are:◦
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Here is a video tutorial on
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