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Feed Reading and Ideas Generated
by this Practice
What one can gain from this simple professional practice
By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
School of English
Faculty of Social
Sciences
Universidad Latina de
Costa Rica
Sunday,
April 3, 2016
Post 246
After being introduced
to Feedly.Com by Prof. Michael Krauss in
his course Exploring Web 2.0: Tools for Classroom Teaching and Professional
Development, we participants were asked to go to Prof. Peachey’s
blog Nik’s
QuickShout to add it to our Feedly.Com
account for in-depth exploration later on. Formerly I had visited Nik Peachey’s
blogs, especially after meeting him at Homerton College, University of
Cambridge, GB. Though I was not his student in his Web 2.0 training, partners
at Homerton taking his class got very enthusiastic at the ideas that Prof.
Peachey spread across his students. Now it is my turn to see how his Nik’s QuickShout blog
has evolved.
Scrolling down his many ideas, I got caught by one of his entries entitled Video Creation Activities
a)
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Blog
post title
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Video Creation Activities
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Date
of publication
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Tuesday, September 8,
2015
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URL
to access
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b)
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Suggested
tool
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None provided by Nik
Peachey
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My suggestion is https://www.youtube.com/capture,
which allows the user to create movies on the go for iPhones or iPads. For
Android phones, it is suggested the following: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.youtube.creator&hl=en,
YouTube Creator Studio.
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Tool
description
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Any of the two tools
suggested above allows the user (student) to record videos and upload them to
his/her YouTube channel, and then they can be shared or posted in the course’s
webpage, Moodle classroom, Edmodo, etc.
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c)
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Target
Students
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Idea
1
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Literature
students who can create a Vodcast (a podcast combined with
video) in which they can discuss their personal analysis of a literary piece,
such as poetry, short story, or novella.
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Idea
2
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Pronunciation
students who must work on intonation patterns, and by means of
reading poesies, selected sections from prose writing (stories or even
essays) they can read it aloud.
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d)
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Why
this activity
&
Why
these tools
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1)
For digital natives, this can be a
catchy way to have them work on areas that need improvement if applied to
pronunciation.
2)
If applied to literature students,
who usually have to write their analyses, what about having them react to
literary pieces in video format? It is a different way to present ideas and
to check pronunciation and understanding.
3)
Though these are just examples of
possible tools that can be downloaded from the Apple Store or from Google
Play, probably there are more to explore. However, no matter which one your
students get to use, it is important to become familiarized with it to avoid
problems.
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e)
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How
to use this technique in literature
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A)
After demonstrating how the tool can
be used to learners, select a piece of literature for analysis.
B)
Instructionally design your learning
task to make sure students are guided from beginning to the end.
C)
Create a rubric for summative
assessment and to provide pupils with formative assessment, too.
D)
Ask them to rehearse before the
actual recording of task.
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How
to use this technique in pronunciation
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A)
After demonstrating how the tool can
be used to learners, select the area of pronunciation you want learners to
practice.
B)
Instructionally design your learning
task to make sure students are guided from beginning to the end and that the
chosen pronunciation issue is addressed.
C)
Create a rubric for summative
assessment and to provide pupils with formative assessment, too.
D)
Ask them to rehearse before the
actual recording of task.
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No doubt that Feedly.Com
is a great tool for academic and professional development. There are many
things I am interested in, and those articles posted in education blogs are
things that help me generate more ideas to continue innovating in my teaching
practices. For sure, my higher education learners will benefit from my on-going
training in Web 2.0 tools.
Reference
Peachey, N. (2015, September 8). Video creation activities. Retrieved from Nik's QuickShout: http://quickshout.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-11-05T06:08:00Z&max-results=1&start=2&by-date=false
Sunday, April 03, 2016
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