VIDEO ONLINE


The original presentation given at the CATESOL 2006 Convention, San Francisco, CA, April 8, 2006, has been taken down. These references are regularly updated. For the most up-to-date information on using video with students, please also see the EVO Video archive wiki: http://evovideo.wikispaces.com. A new session of EVO Video will be offered in Jan-Feb 2009. Please watch for the announcement.
Most recent update: 25 September 2008; copyright Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, professor emeritus, CSU, Sacramento.


Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
Software design and educational technology consulting
Command Performance Language Institute/Computers for Education
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http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/index.html
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References

(Web addresses were valid at the time of the latest update, but are subject to change. Please use your search engine if you cannot access pages directly. )

CONTENT & LESSONS
CONTENT ONLY SITES
VLOGS, ARCHIVES, and CONTESTS
TOOLS for MAKING and USING VIDEO
TOOLS for ONLINE LANGUAGE SUPPORT
PEDAGOGICAL ARTICLES, MODELS, USERS' GROUPS & OTHER RESOURCES
About




CONTENT & LESSONS

Discovery Education
[Web site]. 2008. Discovery Channel. http://school.discoveryeducation.com. [Clips from TV shows and teacher lesson plans and rsources.]

English Bites [Web site]. 2004-2008. Australia Network. http://australianetwork.com/. [Archive of TV show is downloadable.]

English-Trailers [Web site]. 2005. [Website currently down.] [Extensive exercises using movie trailers as prompts; includes conversation and writing ideas.]

ESLvido.com [Web site]. 2006. http://www.eslvideo.com/. [Int.-Adv. exercises with video are written by Ryan Detwiler as an MA project. Well contextualized, natural language set in San Francisco includes interesting events, such as ski-boarding Lombard St. in San Francisco with artificial snow.]

Learning Resources [Web site]. 2008. CNN San Francisco.  http://literacyworks.org/learningresources/.

M2K4: Mars 2004  [Web site]. 2005. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html. [Mars exploration program and other resources about space and the U.S. space program. Also in Spanish at http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/En_Espanol.html.]

Real English [Website]. 2008.  The Marzio School, Istres, France. http://www.real-english.com/.

Yolango [Website]. 2008.  http://www.yolango.com. Contains many trailers with subtitles and scripts to aid understanding. [Related lessons and teacher support is found at Daily English Activities: Exercise Your Ears with Authentic Film Clips. http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/2008/09/exercise-your-ears-with-authentic-film.html.]



CONTENT SITES

The Beijing Guide: The Great Wall of China [Web site]. 2005.  http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/. [User can move the camera view around and download stills for projects.]

Camvista.com [Web site]. 2004. http://www.camvista.com/. [UK Travel Webcam site.]

Council of Europe [Website]. 2008. Council of Europe. Available at http://www.coe.int/. [Dull but extensive deliberations of the European parliament in several of the major European languages, many in English. Check the archives also.]

Global Education Partnership [Web site]. 2008. Discovery Channel.  http://www.discoveryglobaled.org/. [Videos from partner countries around the world.]

Jersey City Peregrine Cam [Webcam site]. 2008.  http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/peregrinecam/.

London Video Tours [Web site]. 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/08/18/video_bustour_feature.shtml. [Videos taken from double-decker buses can be viewed in half-time or real-time speed.]

Movie Trailers [Web site]. 2008. Apple Computer.   http://www.apple.com/trailers/.

Real Guide [Webcast site]. 2008. RealNetworks. http://www.realguide.com/. [Webcasts both audio and video]. TurnHere.com [Website]. 2008. http://www.turnhere.com. [Click on >Our videos for professional quality short video on a variety of tourism sites--an insider's guide. Download or view online.] Tourism Australia [Website]. 2008. http://australiatv.feedroom.com.

Video Nation [Website.]. 2008. BBC. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/. [Amateur but high quality videos; searchable;  British  dialects are quite useful for all learners.]

Video Search [Website]. 2008. Public Broadcasting Corporation. Available at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/index.html. [Allows user to search the news archives of PBC TV news.]

Webcam Central [Website]. 2008. Available at http://www.camcentral.com/. [Safe surfing site to find Webcam videos.]

Women in the Global Community [Web site]. 2004. Fulbright Program.  http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/fulbright/. [Videos of a conference--advanced level native and non-native speakers.]




VLOGS, ARCHIVES, & CONTESTS

BlogCheese. 2006. http://www.blogcheese.com. [Vlog for Webcams--no uploading of files.]

filmedworld.com 2006. N. Gromik. http://www.filmedworld.com. [Place to store and view student projects; has an annual video contest also.]

Global Education Partnership [Website]. 2005. Discovery Channel.  http://www.discoveryglobaled.org/. [Videos from partner countries.]

HomeTown Video Festival. 2006. http://2008.acmhometown.org/. [Annual video contest.]

Internet Moving Image Archive. 2008. http://www.archive.org/details/movies.

My Hero Short Film Festival. 2008. http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/filmfestival/ff_index.asp.

OurMedia.org [Vlog]. 2006. http://www.ourmedia.org.
[Must upload videos to the Internet Archive to link to this blog. Carefully protected system for safe surfing.]

Tinypic.com. 2008. http://tinypic.com/. [Free video and image hosting, sharing, etc.]

YouTube [Vlog]. 2008. http://www.youtub.com. [Excellent tagging system; millions of amateur videos; be aware there may be "adult" content.]


TOOLS and TUTORIALS for MAKING and USING VIDEO

Arneil, S. & M. Holmes. 2008. Hot Potatoes [Computer software]. University of Victoria. http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/.

Atomic Learning [Web site]. 2008. http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home.

EyeSpot Mobile Share. 2006. http://eyespot.com/. [A wholly online video editing software that feeds to your video-enabled mobile phone, PDA, or computer.]

FreeVlog 2005. Hodson, R. & Verdi, M. http://freevlog.org/tutorial/#. [Vlog (video + blog) with tutorial video/screencast on how to upload video to a blog.]

HyperStudio [Software]. Roger Wagner Publishing/Sunburst Technology. http://www.hyperstudio.com.

iMovie. [Software]. Mountain View, CA: Apple Computer. http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/.

Jumpcut. 2008. http://www.jumpcut.com. [Online video editor and storage site; operates much like Windows Moviemaker or iMovie.]

Kantor, B. 2006. Projectstreamer. Beth Kantor's Blog. [Shows how to make your PowerPoint presentation into a Flickr slideshow.]

Kids' Vid [Online tutorials]. 2000-2001. High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium. Available at http://kidsvid.altec.org/. [Great site for middle school/6-12 grade kids to learn about scripting, filming, editing, etc.]

Macintosh iMovie HD Support. 2006. http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Microsoftª PowerPoint [Software]. 2000. Redding, WA: Microsoft. Available at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx.

MightyCoach.com. [Website]. 2006. http://www.mightycoach.com.

QuickTime [Software]. 2005. Apple Computer. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.
[For information on how to embed QT movies in your Website, see http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html.]

RealOne Player [Computer software]. 2005. Available at http://www.real.com/.

TeacherTube and PMWiki. 2007, May 4. B. Knittle. Available at TeacherTube. [A screen recording of how to embed a YouTube video into a wiki.]

Windows Movie Maker. 2006. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx. [How to use Moviemaker to edit videos.]

WebQuest [Website]. 2005. B. Dodge, San Diego State University. Available at http://webquest.org/index.php.

Windows Movie Maker [Software]. 2005. Redding, WA: Microsoft Corp. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx.



TOOLS FOR ONLINE LANGUAGE SUPPORT for AUTHENTIC CONTENT

Babelfish. 2008. Yahoo! http://babelfish.yahoo.com. [Translate a word or a block of text.]

The Compleat Lexical Tutor. 2008. T. Cobb/Université de Québec å Montréal. http://www.lextutor.ca/. [An online concordancer linking to dozens of word lists, dictionaries, and thesauri.]

VoyCabulary. 1998-2004. Voyager Info-Systems. http://www.voycabulary.com/. [Translates a whole Web page or word-by-word.]




PEDAGOGICAL ARTICLES, MODELS, USERS' GROUPS & OTHER RESOURCES

Almeida, D'Eça, T. 2004, Spring. Cybersights: Webheads in Action: Communities of practice online [Review]. Essential Teacher, 1(2), 59.

EVO Video Archive. 2008. http://evovideo.wikispaces.com. [Ongoing, frequently updated archive of tutorials, student examples, tools, resources, etc., from the TESOL CALL Interest Section Electronic Village Online sessions.]

Hanson-Smith, E. 2006.  Trends in Digital Media - 2007. A presentation at TESOL Seattle, March 23, 2007. http://video-acsession.wikispaces.com/.
[Regularly updated.]


iMovie Examples [Web site]. 2005. Springfield Public School District 186.  http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/.
[Examples from K-12 student video-makers.]


Katchen, J., Morris, B., Savova, L. 2005. Do-it-yourself video role models. Essential Teacher 2(1): 40-49. [Paper only.]

Martin, S. 2005. El Rebumbio: Lord of the Rings [Web page with example of Hot Potatoes using a video trailer as the cloze prompt]. http://www.elrebumbio.org/lord/lord.htm.

Morris, B. 2006. Sustainable video production in short-term courses. TESOL Video News, 17(1), p. 1 [Online journal]. http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/article.asp?vid=188&DID=5442&sid=1&cid=757&iid=5434&nid=3268. [Describes how to set up rotating groups of students who make short videos, alternately take on the roles of director, camera-person, and actors.]

Phrasal Verb Video Dictionary. 2006. R. Drury. Georgia Tech. http://web.li.gatech.edu/~rdrury/600/oral/video/dictionary.html. [Students create their own mini-videos to explain the meanings of common phrasal verbs--conceptually difficult multimedia contextualization using project-based learning.]

Raguso, C. 2006, July 26. Learning with Computers Film Festival!. In Welcome to the Computer Lab. [Blog and Web pages with directions for getting started with a student film festival, and examples of student videos.]

Real English Online [Online community]. 2008. E. Hanson-Smith & M. Marzio. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Real_English_Online. [For students: offers access to Real-English.com videos to practice individually. Click on "Join This Group."]

Sendai Museums. 2006. Sendai City/Tohoku University. Sendai Tourism. [Video made by N. Gromik's students for the Sendai City tourism board.]

Sharpe, S. K. 2005. A Blueprint for successful video projects. Essential Teacher, 2(1): 36-38.

Tapped In [Online community]. 2005. Stanford Research Institute. Available at http://www.tappedin.org.

TeacherSource [Webpage]. 2008.  Public Broadcasting Corporation.  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/.




Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith is professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. She was lead designer for the Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive CD, and pedagogical consultant for Live Action English Interactive software. A former Board member of theTESOL professional association, she edited and contributed to Technology-Enhanced Language Learning Environments; with co-editor Sarah Rilling, Language Learning through Technology (2008);  and, with co-editor Joy Egbert, CALL Environments: Research, Practice, and Critical Issues (2nd ed. 2008; all publications available from http://www.tesol.org). She is currently teaching online courses, including co-moderation of Real English Online (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Real_English_online), a group supporting teachers using video and audio.

Computers for Education Home page: http://webpages.csus.edu/~hansonsm/index.html.







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