Click on this simple into to find out how to use the videos.
These videos were created for
teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology or show you some of the best ELT sites around. What you actually see are screen recordings of my own computer screen.
My own background is in teaching English, so some of the sites
are specific to ELT and are grouped separately. The rest are for all teachers and there is also a section for those
interested in more difficult multimedia products like Flash and Director.
Simply click on a topic and a page will appear with a large menu on the left hand side. The videos will start playing straight away or you can click on a specific topic to know about it. My suggestion is that you open up the tool you want to learn so you can jump between using the tool and watching the videos. Just click on one of the topics on the left hand side. The page might take a few seconds to load, be patient and I think you will find they are very useful.
This months new videos are about a mind mapping tool that is free on the web and allows you to colloborate and work with people remotely on the mind map. The other video is a site for making surveys which also organises the results into tables and graphs for you. It is simple to use and great for research and surveying your students and of course it is free.
Russell Stannard is a principal lecturer in Multimedia/ICT at the University of Westminster as well as the course leader in the MSc in Interactive Multimedia .
He has a regular column in the English Teaching Professional called Webwatcher where he writes about technology and language teaching. The column has been running for 7 years. The ELT Professional have began to offer free on-line examples of
Russell's articles from Webwatcher.
Russell has worked in Spain, China, Greece, and the UK and was the Director of Studies of the International House centre in Seville Spain for 9 years.
Russell also teaches on courses in ICT and English for Academic Purposes as well as running the
Media and Technology module on the MA TESOL at the Unversity of Westminster.
The Guardian recently published an article about Russell's work with training videos. You can read it at Guardian Article
The THES article on video feedback, published in December 2006, has now been released by the Guardian THES article on Video Feedback
Teacher Training Videos with the help of Nik Peachey. has now launched 2 sets of training videos to help teachers and students use Second Life. It covers all the basics from downloading the product and registering on Second Life right through to building and producing video. Many thanks to the The Consultants-E for the use of their Edunation island for filming. Find out more about their work The Consutants-E.
Second Life Level One
Second Life Level Two
Russell's work on using Screen Recorder Software for teaching and giving students feedback has been covered in the national press (Guardian and THES) and has led to several publications looking at student feedback. Read this report JISC London Region and find out more about the work Russell is doing. He work is now being covered by several Universities and institutions in the UK. Below, You can also look at these short example of videos of Russell providing video feedback to his students. A second and more extensive report has now been published by the Higher Education Academy. For previous as well as more recent articles look at Modern English English July 2006 , IAFTEFL CALL Newsletter November 2006 and English Teaching Professional March 2008. The IATEFL May 2008 has a second article on the idea. The Times Higher Education has now released a very detailed article on video feedback which was first published back in December 2006 THES article on Video Feedback.
A short example of given a student "Video feedback"
Feedback on a student's composition
A short example of producing a "Grammar Review" for the students.
A mini grammar review
An example of "General Class Feedback 1"
Classroom feedback
An example of "General Class Feedback 2"
Classroom feedback
Many people have asked me how I made all the learning videos that are on this site. I use a product called Camtasia Studio Screen Recorder by Techsmith . There are even learning videos on how to use Camtasia. Just click here
Some people have asked me about my blog. I am afriad I don't keep one quite simply because there are too many other great blogs around. Try the following 3 that I really like.
Larry Ferlazzo
Great blog with an amazing number of great links to quality ELT sites. I often use this site for my videos
Nik Peachey
Nik is great at finding really quirky and interesting sites. He knows a lot about virtual environments like Second Life.
David's English Teaching World
Really comprehensive blog, with lots of information linked to different countries.
