This last section is called "Featured Teachers" but it's also for everyone who participated in this year's EVO Video 2010 Workshop, even if you didn't have time to complete assignments. If you participated in ANY of our activities and have any last remarks to make to any moderator in particular, or to us as a group about the session, please do! Send us picture and text. Please post to our Yahoo Group.
Elisenda has sent us her text and photos.
Others, from other featured teachers, are on their way (Carolina, Olga, Marie-Helene...).
So, we're ready to present Featured Teacher # 1 in this series - Elisenda Bargalló Albar!
Who is Elisenda?
This was her first message, introducing herself at the beginning of Week 1:
"Hi!
I'm a young English teacher in Spain. I work in High School and in Adults
school. I love working with images so, as long as video includes images I'm
broadly interested in this course.
I'm from Barcelona and I've been teaching for 5 years. I love my job and most of
all, working with teenagers.
Hello to everybody and hope we'll have fun here and learn a looooot! ;-)
Elisenda-Maro0n."
Cora replied the same as I was going to reply, but she replied before I did:
"It's great to hear you saying "I love my job!" Your passion for teaching will
inspire us all."
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Elisenda wrote:
"EVO SESSION: VIDEO 2010
During these 6 weeks that the EVO VIDEO 2010 sessions last, I have learned how to use different websites that will be very useful for my students.
Firstly, I have had the time to browse Real-English. I already knew this website but I have not found the time to see how interesting it is and how well-designed as well as meaningful the activities are. Now, I have used some of the lessons with my intermediate students and I cannot wait for the advanced videos and activities that are coming soon.
Secondly, Ryan Detwiler cleverly told us about www.eslvideo.com, another site that I already use with my students and which is amazingly useful. Students always like the videos I choose from eslvideo and they find the quiz an easy activity to follow and understand the video. What I did not know was that I can be a member and that students can send me their results through the same website. That was a great discovery because now I can keep the record of all my students and assign them videos for homework, from which I will have the results directly in my profile! Marvelous, superb!
Thirdly, Jennifer has been such a positive encouragement! She is eager to help all of us, teaching how to use her videos, how to create ours or how to find grammar resources to solve our tricky grammar questions. I have discovered her blog but I was already subscribed to her youtube channel. She is very clear in her explanations and I usually use her videos when focusing on pronunciation.
Finally, I did have no clue about USA Learns. Sincerely, I think this is the one I am going to use the less. I do not know why but maybe I feel the website is not as attractive to my eyes as the previous ones. However, some of the videos are clearly explained and I think I have to give it a try and see how my students work with this site. I am not going to register my students because they are young teenagers and I think USA Learns is more an autonomous website for adults, but, I can use some of the videos with all the explanations provided and print the activities for them to work on it. Yes, I will do it soon and give you feedback.
Moreover, we suggested the creation of a space where we could share resources that we use and our moderators nicely provided it for us. I have then learnt even more things since the participants have advised other links that I have also explored and tag to my always growing del.icio.us.
Last but not least, I would like to thanks all the moderators and participants because I am really satisfied with this course and with all the tools I have discovered during this workshop.
Elisenda Maro0n
My students from the school Josep Tous in Barcelona. I have used some of the video resources with them.
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