Showing posts with label videoseries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videoseries. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2012

Online Teaching Videos

Curt Bonk is on my list of inspiration when it comes to online teaching and learning. I've gotten some neat ideas for my online classes from his book Empowering Online Learning: 100+ activities for reading, reflecting, displaying and doing.

If you are really interested in becoming more proficient in you online teaching/tutoring/mentoring skills, you might want to take a closer look to Bonk's series of 27 videos on the topic at http://www.youtube.com/TravelinEdMan

http://www.youtube.com/TravelinEdMan

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Exploring Videos Series - EnglishCentral

I've used EnglishCentral with my online group, English4Travel.
The feedback was very positive, for students can watch videos in English related to topics of interest, they can decide for the level - easy, medium, hard - and they can record themselves to evaluate their oral production. They can watch the videos with transcripts and without them for a more challenging activity. Fantastic tool for the classroom and beyond.

On the teacher's side, you have the option to create a student group and check your students' progress, which videos they've watched and their scores, plus I just love the feature in which you aggregate the videos by topic and suggest them to the group.

EnglishCentral has also been interested in updating the system with new features for the users. Really worth giving it a try with your students.