Extensive Reading Rant
My first video for the iTDI Making ELT Videos course
The second week assignment for the iTDI Making ELT Videos course was to make a video. Here’s my sad attempt 🙂
It was rushed, shot on two devices, edited with Windows Movie Maker (which in my opinion is complete garbage -need better software). No music, had real trouble putting the screenshots in (hence the messed up audio from halfway through), didn’t do proper lighting, forgot to add links and a call to action…
BUT, I learned a huge amount and had fun. Looking forward to doing a better job with the second one.
iTDI Making ELT Videos Course
I’m taking an iTDI course for the first time, with the enthusiastic Vicky Hollet, about making ELT videos.
We had the first session last night (22:00 Japan time) and I think it’s going to be a good fit for me. I have special permission to share the first session.
Check it out here and you can still join the course for the next three sessions if you like it. Possibly the best thing about the course is having access to Vicky, her collaborator Jay, and the other course participants, There’s a private community for asking questions, asking for feedback, etc.
If all goes well I should be making more videos going forward.
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ER program development (workshop at ERWC)
This is our workshop from the 2nd Extensive Reading World Congress last month.
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Google Currents
Do you remember when Google shut down their RSS application Reader earlier in the year? I was quite upset at the time, but have since started using Digg Reader and have come to forgive them in my heart.
Google has something called Google Currents that appears to have been around for a couple of years now. I think I have it on my Nexus 7, but I never really knew what it was until my friend Parin wrote about it on Facebook just now.
To cut a long story short, you can now subscribe to this blog on Google Currents, by following this link. Or for even more personal service, sign up for email delivery in the box at the top right of this page.
If you want to know more, including how to set up Google Currents to publish your content from WordPress, the video below is very clear.
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VIDEO: Extensive Reading EFL Class Orientation
I was hoping to post this video yesterday, but I ran into technical problems (three of the students wandered into the shot, and I wasn’t comfortable posting something with students’ faces visible without getting permission from them and the university). Much easier to just try again with another class this morning 🙂
So, this is the first session of one of my extensive reading classes at Tohoku University. This is the orientation class, so we briefly run through what ER is and how our ER program works. After the video ends, the students start reading low-level graded readers. We managed to get about fifteen minutes of silent reading in class.
The ER@TU program is described in our forthcoming bilingual handbook. I will have a few copies of this to give away at the ACLL later this month, the Pan-SIG conference in May, the ER World Congress in September, and JALT National in October -please let me know if you want one or just come and find me at the conference.
Please post any questions below or on the Facebook page.