Friday, October 28, 2011

Using Photo Shows in Teaching and Learning

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.


    This is a short video of Christmas song i've made using Animoto, which is a digital tool to tell stories using photos, texts, and videos.
    I can use this video to in an English as a second-language classroom. The level of the students will be Grade One children of elementary school. With such a video, I can not only teach students some vocabularies, but also teach them this interesting song which is named 'We wish you Merry Christmas'. In addition, I can also give some extra information about Christmas as an American holiday such as its orign, meaning, and ways of celebration.
    For those higher level students, I can show this video as a model of small project. I can let students to make a 2-3 minutes video to introduce one kind of American holidays using whatever pictures or informations related to it. They can make it by themselves or work as a groups.
    It's a good way to teach and learn by digital materials like this.

1 comment:

Maryanne said...

I particularly like your idea of having the students create videos.