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EDUCATIONAL VIDEO CLIPS BANK

THE SUPER BOOK OF WEB TOOLS FOR EDUCATORS

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

"WHERE THE HELL IS MATT?" LESSON PLAN

"Where the Hell is Matt?" Lesson Plan

Subject : English
Number of students : 20
Level of students : Elementary
Students' age : 10 - 11
Lesson time : 50 mins
Presentation time : 50 mins (the students present their posters)
Material needed : video clip, worksheets, photos and magazine cut-outs, Google Earth software
Skills practised : listening, speaking, reading, writing
Vocabulary practised : countries, nationalities, monuments, animals, plants, geographical terms (continent, desert, mountain, etc.)
Cross-Curriculum references : Geography, History, Language
Grammar practised : Superlative degree of Adjectives

Warm - Up / Pre- Viewing Activity

- Brainstorming
The students use their previous knowledge to brainstorm places of interest from the rest of the world they would like to visit or that have already visited. The expected results would be famous and well-known places such as Paris, London, etc. The teacher explains that they are going to watch a video of more places they might never have heard of.

While - Viewing Activity

- Worksheet
The teacher hands out a worksheet containing a list of about 50 places including the 36 places presented in the clip and the students have to tick those that they watch on the video. The worksheet can be filled even after the clip ends depending on students' memories and note-taking abilities.

The teacher plays the clip

Post-Viewing Activities

- Checking the worksheet and answering students' questions such as
"How could he travel to all these places?", "Who is Matt?" etc.
- The students find these places using Google Earth (or a world map and pinpoint the spots but this takes quite a long time)  or  http://www.panoramio.com/map/ that offers in addition pictures of the places you find on the Earth's map

- The teacher plays the clip for a second time pausing it at each place and asking the students to discuss the background and what they can see there (landforms, animals, etc.) and what they think is that special about each place. The teacher writes down sentences such as :
eg. Machu Picchu is the most famous landmark of the Inca civilisation.
The biggest jellyfish I have ever seen are in Palau.
The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world.
Area 51 is the most secretive American place.

Homework

- The students are asked to work individually or in groups and produce a poster or a collage using magazine cut-outs of Matt and their country. The title could be :
"If Matt was dancing in Greece what would the background be?" asking the students to think of the best way to present their country.The students can create presentations using user-friendly tools like http://www.slide.com/ , http://www.slideshare.net/ ,or http://www.slideboom.com/ .

Presentation of the Students' Projects

Extra Activity- Game
http://www.teach-ict.com/xml/cristnycol/cristnycol_21796/hangman.htm.

TEACHING HISTORY CAN BE FUN

HOW TO USE AMAZON.COM TO TEACH ENGLISH

Jamie Keddie, a teacher coming from Scotland who possesses what seems to be an infinite batch of inspirational teaching ideas! An ELTon 2009 winner (from The British Council), author of "Images" in the Oxford series "Resource Books for Teachers", writer of teflclips.com and LessonStream.com, teacher trainer, live and online presenter, blogger, Twitterer and more, Jamie Keddie is waiting for us in a cosy Elluminate Room on the 13th of April starting 6 pm CET to talk about web-based video and its educational merit.
You can find out more about Jamie if you google him - here you have his blog, info about his book, a 2009 interview, his YouTube channel.

http://lessonstream.org/browse-lessons/

Jamie's useful links
Access to video content from yesteryear

1. Roundhay Garden Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_garden_scene
2. Hammer and feather on the moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk

New creativity and means of communication

1. The sandpit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU
The ARS Electronica centre, Linz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Electronica
2. Poem about modern art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3lSSp-3068
3. World Water facts
http://lessonstream.org/2007/09/04/world-water-facts/

4. Short film: Small pleasures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkFW5E0XcM
Film English blog: http://film-english.com/
5. TED.com: http://www.ted.com/
The Marshmallow challenge:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
The surprising science of motivation:
http://lessonstream.org/2011/03/31/the-candle-problem/

User-generated content

1. Alex the maths teacher
http://lessonstream.org/2010/02/24/what-happens-next-ii/

2. Steve jobs' talk in 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZS8HqOGTbA

The traditional big players

1. Music video
Working in a fast food store: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQJACVmankY

2. BBC nature clip
Snails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22J7e-Eqfw4

3. Advertisers
Skittles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlaJlb1ezg
4. Baby wearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mztymu72l7c

5. Bath in Burger King
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/13/8
Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFwcN_EOSU

6. The annoying orange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5PoW7_kdA

LESSON PLAN BASED ON WEB-VIDEO

Open publication - Free publishing - More lesson

ACTIVITY PERFORMED BY THE STUDENTS OF CLASS E1'
Primary School of Polichnitos

TEACHING IDIOMS AND PHRASAL VERBS USING WEB VIDEO

Video hosting and sharing sites are services that allow individuals to easily upload, link and share images and videos. As a teacher, I can say that this can make our lives practically easier for many reasons. We can have easy access to loads of educational material and information shared online which, if integrated in the learning procedure, can create a very interesting and motivating atmosphere for the students. Sounds, images and especially authentic material can bring a boring lesson to life. Students, especially teenagers, respond to these more effectively and as a result, the lesson becomes more comprehensive and pleasant. Moreover, teachers can use these sites to exchange and share their own, or their students' material in order to co-operate and work together on projects, in a faster and more efficient way. We can also use these sites as huge "banks" of information and ideas, which are difficult to find in remote areas in a different way, and this most definitely applies to foreign language teachers.
The criteria which I use in order to choose a web video are the following :

CONTENT

• appropriate content with educational value.

• “strong” video content that will create an impact on students’ memories so that they can recall the target-language forms at the same time as the images.

• videos with comprehensive content following the lesson curriculum to facilitate the students’ understanding thus keeping their attention at all times.

• video containing the target language forms in a clear and direct way so as to maximise the expected effectiveness and results.

• containing as much authentic material as possible to bring the students close to real-life situations.

• video that will encourage the students to interact and get actively involved allowing for positive and effective feedback

TECHNICAL LAYOUT

• video must be of good quality so as to be explicit

• the audio and visual effects must be interesting to catch the children’s attention

• quite short to fit in the curriculum and time available for the task

• able to be embedded or shared online

SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS

• content appropriate for the students’ ages.

• not containing comments that refer to racism, violence, gender,sex, drugs, etc. being offensive in any way.

• think of the psychological impact that it may have on the students’ subconscious.

• taking individual rights into consideration as well as students’ beliefs

TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2010

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