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.

American Holidays

 
  Hello, everyone! Next week, in our L2 Culture class, we will learn some interesting Holidays in America. Here's some images of Bookr about American Holidays and we will have discussions about them.


Please choose one of them you like and prepare a short introduction about it.

• You can talk about the origins,  meanings, ways of celebration etc.
• You can also share your experience and thought about some interesting stories or incidents.
• You can find another holidays you like and introduce it in the class.

Objectives:

• Learn different kinds of American Holidays.
• Understand the meanings, origins, and celebrations etc.
• Figure out the differences between students' own culture.