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Syllabus

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Welcome to the EVO Video 2010 Session!

 

(January 11 - February 21, 2010)

 


 

Title: My Video Classroom 2.0

 

 

Abstract:

Are you looking for resources that will save your prep time, enhance your lessons, and expand teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls? Learn about these online treasure troves of multi-media content created for EFL/ESL teachers by fellow educators who share a passion for teaching, language learning, and video. 

 

 

Target Audience:

Internet-using teachers of languages.

 

Sponsors:

TESOL Video and Digital Media IS and TESOL Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) IS.

 

 

Week-by-Week Outline:

 

Week 1 (01/11/10): (Moderator: All)

 

Our Wiki (Front Page) and our Yahoo! Group

 

Topics:

       Concerning your introduction of yourself to the Group: kindly include "Introduction - Your Name" in the Subject line of your message.

 

Materials for Participants:

  • Examples of videos produced by EnglishMeeting, JenniferESL, TheDailyEnglishShow and Real English®. 

     

Assignments:

Assignment 1: Visit the EVO Video 2010 wiki.

Assignment 2: Join EVO Video 2010 Yahoo Group and introduce yourself to other members (i.e., your name, where you are from, where you teach). Post your introduction as a message to the group.

Assignment 3: Visit some of the resources mentioned this week.

Assignment 4: Answer the following questions. Post your answers on our Yahoo GroupPlease use the subject heading "Week 1 (Your Name)".

a. How are you currently or have in the past used video?

b. How would you use with your English learners the resources mentioned this week?

 

Synchronous Chat/Presentation:

EFL Bridges

Join Jeff Lebow of EFL Bridges as he leads a discussion with Jennifer Lebedev, Dave Sconda, Sarah Lilburn, and Mike Marzio about the content they provide. See Week 1 for the exact times of these discussions on Monday, January 11 and Thursday the 14th.

 

 

Week 2 (01/18/10): (Moderator: Mike)

Topic:

  • Real English

 

 

 

Synchronous Chat/Presentation

  • On Jan. 18th, at 4 pm GMT  (global times) , Mike will make a short presentation of Real English in Adobe Connect. The beginning of one lesson will be used as an example showing how Real English exercises and videos work together. Important: Precise information concerning Adobe Connect and be found here. Please come if you can. This is the introduction to week 2. This presentation will feature the first few exercises of a Real English lesson. The presentation is designed to show how pictures, text, video and "teacher audio" are used to make spontaneous speech understandable, and how students learn while discovering the difference betweeen controlled and natural speech.

 

 

Assignment 1

Do two or more of these lessons, as if you were a student.

The 2 lessons are to be chosen from the lesson core: http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp

i.e., choose one lesson between 1 and 20 and another one from 24 to 80, or simply choose lessons at a level corresponding to your students' levels.

 

Do 2 or more of these lessons:

 

1 - Hi

2-From,

3 Alphabet & Spelling,

4-Color/Colour,

5-Nationality,

6-Introducing People,

7-Astrological Sign,

8a-Cardinal Numbers,

8b-Ordinal Numbers,

8c-How old...?,

8d-Dates,

8e-Phone numbers (at least 3 parts of lesson 8 count as one lesson),

10-The Jones Family,

11-Are you married?,

13-Americans,

14-The British,

15-Can ,

16-The French,

16b-Lisa,

17-The Italians,

20-Going to a place,

21 - Intro to Do and Does,

22-Continental Airlines,

23- Got/Have got/Have,

24-What do you do?,

29-Like to do-I,

30-Like to do-II,

31-How long...?,

32-Where do you live? (Flash Exercises by Birgit Ferran),

37-What are you doing?,

38-What are you wearing?,

43-Intro to Did,

46-Yesterday,

55-Women (Conditionals),

80-How to learn a Second Language,

and the very recent Walk Score Lessons.

 

For those of you who want to experience very well-designed Dictation Exercises by our colleague Glenys Hanson, which include some of my own favorite videos, you can include one lesson from this list:

 

Lessons 9-Time,

12-What's the Weather like?,

19-Giving Directions,

34-Intro to doing,

40-Intro to Going to do,

48-Intro to Present Perfect,

52-Present Perfect II,

and 53-Present Perfect III.

 

Again, begin here at the lesson core: http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp  

Choose a lesson, watch the video without subtitles, and then click on Exercise 1. Follow the instructions.

 

Assignment 2

After having gone through 2 lessons or more, write a short essay explaining how you would you use a Real English video and lesson with your students.

Evaluate the lessons in relation to your own needs. What works, or would work for you in your classroom? What does not work for you?

 

Also, write about practical concerns, for example, 

- Do you have a classroom projector hooked up to your computer? This allows you go through the lesson with your students in class and perhaps assign the unfinished exercises as homework, assuming your students have internet access at home. 

- If you do not project to a classroom screen, can you share your own online computer with student(s), for very small groups or one-on-one courses? 

- Would you make up your own exercises for the videos? If Yes: in all cases, or only if you had the time?

 

Please post your essay in the body of your message on our Yahoo Group. Click on "Post" to begin a new message or "reply" to reply to a colleague. Please use the subject heading "Week 2 (Your Name)" to help keep things organized. The Yahoo Group is surely the best tool to facilitate discussion between participants. 

 

 

Assignment 3

  • Discussion on our Yahoo Group: Why emphasize the importance of realia? Isn't the wide range of accents confusing for beginners? What about the fast delivery of speech? Why make everything more difficult for beginners and intermediate students? What's the point? Don't students need slow, controlled examples of speech in order to learn?

 

 

Week 3 (01/25/10): (Moderator: Ryan)

Topics:

 

Materials for Participants:

  • "How to" screen-cast demos of the assignments.

 

Assignments:

  • Take a quiz and send the results to: Teacher Code = EVOteacher; Class ID = EVOclass.
  • Log in to eslvideo.com with: Email = evovideo2010@yahoo.com; password = EVOvideo (Note the password is case sensitive.)
  • Go to "My Account" and click on "Scores" to see how your quiz score (step 1) was organized.
  • Click on the Join a Class button and fill out the form with: Teacher Code = EVOteacher; Class ID = EVOclass.
  • (Log in with Step 2 details.) Click on "My Account" and click on "Classes" to see all members of the class (including yourself as you just "joined" in the previous step.)
  • Create a quiz. View your quiz. Edit your quiz as needed.
  • (Log in with Step 2 details.) Click on "Classes" and "Show me the email address of everyone in: EVOclass." Send the quiz you created to the EVOclass.
  • Please participate in the forum discussion -- questions below.

 

Forum discussion:

  • How would you use this website with your English learners?
  • What improvements to the website would make it easier / better for teachers and students?

 

 

Week 4 (02/01/10): (Moderator: Branka)

 

Topics:

  • USA Learns (and myEFA)

 

Assignments:

Assignment 1:

  • Explore the Web site as an independent learner (link)
  • Explore the Web site as a registered learner (link)
  • Explore the Web site's teacher management feature (link)

 

Assignment 2:

Answer the following question. Post your answers on our Yahoo Group.  Please use the subject heading "Week 4 (Your Name)".

  • How would you use these Web sites with your English learners?'

If you have questions please post them answers on our Yahoo Group.  Please use the subject heading "Week 4 (Your Name)".

  • Q & A for content creators and tech support

 

Presentation:

  • Ovesrview of the Web sites (flash video introduction)
  • Webinar recording by lead content creator (webcast)

 

 

Week 5 (02/09/10): (Moderator: Jennifer)

Topics:

  • Using and Creating Online Materials

 

Assignments:

  • Watch my introduction to word stress on YouTube. Answer the following questions. Post your answers on our Yahoo Group.
    • What can beginning teachers or teachers in training learn from my presentation?
    • How exactly can the video supplement a pronunciation lesson you are teaching? 
  • Explore the quizzes/ exercises I offer at EnglishCafe. It is free to join this online community, but membership is required to view and create quizzes. This first sample is a quiz on the pronunciation patterns of phrasal verbs. It accompanies a video I posted on YouTube on the same topic (Lesson 19). This second sample is part of a lesson I made exclusively for the EnglishCafe community, and the topic is spelling patterns in English. Choose a video from my YouTube collection dated before May 2009 and create your own follow-up exercise using the quiz builder on EnglishCafe. (Click here to view a tutorial on how to use the quiz builder.) Be sure to state in the quiz description that it supplements one of my videos and then provide the link to that video. Once your quiz is published on EnglishCafe, share your link on the Participants' Page here on our wiki.

 

Forum discussion:

  • What online resources do you use to answer tricky grammar questions? (Explore Ask & Answer on EnglishCafe and Student Stumpers on my blog.)
  • What online resources do you use to find additional exercises and activities? (Explore categories on my blog.)
  • Can classroom teachers easily adapt to teaching through video? (Explore my series How to Make EFL Instrucitonal Videos.)

 

 

Week 6 (02/15/10): (Moderator: All)

Topics:

  • session evaluation

 

Assignment:

  • Complete session evaluation for the EVO Coordinating Team.

 

Forum:

  • Thanks and general discussion -- session wrap up.

 

 

Communications media:

Wiki: http://evovideo2010.pbworks.com (syllabus, documentation, etc.)

Yahoo Group: 

Group name:   EVOvideo2010
Group home page:   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVOvideo2010
Group email:   EVOvideo2010@yahoogroups.com

 

Live Presentations: elluminate, ustream, go to meeting, or other

 

 

Moderators

Biographical Statements

 

 

Branka Marceta:

 

I am currently holding the position of a Coordinator of Technology projects at OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. I presented at national, state, and regional conferences including TESOL and CATESOL. I came to OTAN from Milpitas Adult School in the South San Francisco Bay area, where I taught ESL and Office Occupations both at the adult school program and in the local correctional facility. I earned my Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology from San Jose State University. Before Milpitas, I had taught ESL/EFL in Toronto, Canada and Novi Sad, Serbia, to learners from all over the world, ages 5-75, from a variety of backgrounds and in a variety in learning environments: one-on-one tutoring, government-funded programs, and intensive English programs to name a few. I am active in the technology interest section of CATESOL (TELL-IG) as the group’s Web master and Electronic Village organizer, presenter and participant. I am looking forward to our EVO session and sharing with and learning from all the ESL/EFL colleagues and fellow English language learners from all over the world.

 

 

Mike Marzio:

 

Michael Marzio BA, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, USA and Masters work in English Education at NYU; practical experience creating and maintaining a language school in the south of France for companies.

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Until recent semi-reirement, I had been teaching, translating, and interpreting while helping run my school. Have made several EFL video programs including "We Mean Business" with Longman UK, "The Adventures of Charlie McBride", and the ongoing Real English® project. Now that I'm semi-reired, I enjoy working even more than before making new videos with online lessons and teaching F2F on a volunteer basis.

 

 

Jennifer Lebedev:

 

 ESL/ EFL teacher since 1996. Materials writer since 2000. Experienced teacher trainer. Ran the ESL program of an IEP in Boston from 2003 to 2005. Online instructor since 2007 (videos, podcasts, private lessons). Consultant since 2008. Currently collaborating with Pearson Longman and EnglishCafe.

 

 

Ryan Detwiler:

 

ESL / EFL teacher 1996-98, 2001-2002, and part time 2009. Co-developed ESL software series, Short Takes Interactive in 2007. Admin of eslvideo.com since 2007. Producer of Video and Multimedia since 2007 (CompareNetworks, Inc.). EVO co-mod 2007, 08, and 09. Very happy to have met Branka and Jennifer this time around, and to work again with Mike, Cora, and Sarah.

 

 

Cora Chen

 

I'm an ESL instructor at City College of San Francisco. I received my master’s degree in English from San Francisco State University. As a curriculum developer for the KQED Education Network, I have developed ESOL lessons on a variety of topics based on KQED/PBS television productions, and these lesson plans have been published by KQED Education Network online and in booklets. I am honored to have the chance to co-moderate for the EVO Video 2010 session with such a wonderful team. Cora's ESL page

 

 

 

 

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