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on February 20, 2010 at 8:08:20 am
 

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.

 

Many of the teacher-participants during this year's EVO Video Session have done some extraordinary work. We would like feature your work.

What do we need to? A final text perhaps of less than a page - 250 words or so which summarize your use of the different tools you have discovered during this workshop, with a photo(s), **preferably of yourself and your students.** with smiles. Seriously, it would be great to have a smiling group photo in addition to any photos showing yourself and your students working. The smiling group photo is optional. It just makes for better press!

Each photo should have its own legend or description. 1 or 2 sentences or one 1 or 2 words.

 

Olga has already begun, and has sent Mike some photos, and the tireless, dynamic Carolina & Elisenda have expressed much interest on our Yahoo Group.

There have been other very active members too. You can either upload your photos and texts on our Yahoo Group's File section or send them to mike@real-english.com

 

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Elisenda is the first to send us both her text and photos.

So, we're ready to present Featured Teacher # 1 in this series - Elisenda Bargalló Albar!

 

Elisenda

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."

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.

 

 

 

2 - Olga -  UNDER CONSTRUCTION -

 

 
     
     

 

 

 

Here is a picture of Olga on the far right, with a group of her adults students.

During these weeks we have been working on different online tools as:  

ESLvideo.com, USA Learns.com, Real English, English. All of these I have tried to introduce in my everyday program.

 

 

 

 For example the first tool (ESLvideo.com) I have tried with my corporate clients. They expressed the desire to do online tests as it is faster and time consuming and it is much easier, because they can watch a video online and complete the quiz in one and the same time and of course it is easier for me to check. I have only to visit the site and look through the results. Usually I ask my students what was difficult and what was the most boring, the things they didn’t like. The only complain was about the quality of the video. Below there is the link to my quiz and my student’s results.

http://www.eslvideo.com/quiz_int2.php?id=4010&pagenum=1

 

 

 

 

The second tool that I have been exploring for more than a year and a half is REAL English. As the site has different level exercises I orient different students on different activities. For example for beginners I use simple videos as numbers, greetings and introduction, alphabet and etc.:

 1 - Hi

2-From,

3 Alphabet & Spelling,

4-Color/Colour,

5-Nationality,

For the higher levels I use more difficult videos as :

13-Americans,

14-The British,

16-The French.

 

Especially when we talk about personality this videos are very useful. Even it is considered for the beginner level and don’t think that these activities are suitable for the beginner level. Some of the words we have in our textbooks only at the Intermediate level. (The text book is “English File”)

I like that there are a lot of synonyms and antonyms that help my students understand new vocabulary better. As we use the non translating method (English-English approach). Also I admire pronunciation exercises because usually higher level students are very fluent but they are not accurate in their grammar and for 200% in their pronunciation. The higher level student is the worse is his pronunciation.

 

Another tool that was introduced in this online session was Englishcafe. In this section I have uploaded a video from one of the Jennifer’s basic grammar videos (Time prepositions IN, ON and AT) and I have created a quiz based on this topic. My students have received the homework in the online form: to do the quiz as we have recently studied Time Prepositions.

http://www.englishcafe.com/quiz/prepositions-time-and-54693#

 

 

 

And of course the last tool is USA Learns. Here I liked the mixture of different activities that I am as a teacher try to cover during my ordinary class as grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and of course phonetics.

 

Usually all new online resources and new methodological approaches I try on my husband. I can say that he is my knowing- all student. I was trying to catch him working on all these sites, but unfortunately I couldn’t because he doesn’t like to pose. And he always has a premonition that I’m going to take a camera.  I have never seen him studying English with such a huge desire.

Some of my classes start at 7.30 and usually my students are very sleepy, so do I. Sometimes as warming up activities we play online games based on the grammar or vocabulary that we have recently studied.

 

 

 

I want to thank all the moderators of this online session as they brought something new to my class. It made my classes more vivid and bright full of modern technologies and new ideas.

 

 

 

 

Carolina - UNDER CONSTRUCTION -

 

 

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