VIDEO!

It is true that video is a powerful tool. I often realize that my students are extremely visual. One of the things I could have done previously in lessons, was incorporate something from united streaming or from a different website containing teacher tools. I say this because with every lesson that I teach in a unit in my foreign language classes, there are videos that the students must watch. These videos are so outdated! The students do not identify themselves with the youth in the videos and it gets somewhat boring. I'm thinking for each lesson of a Unit I should find something for the students to watch and present it with my data projector on my laptop to the whole class. I'd be afraid to assign anything like this for homework because not all of my students have internet access from home.

I recently did a project with my family on it because it involved all the vocabulary for that chapter for the students. I didn't use it as introductory material but I did use it as a review of information they had learned throughout those few weeks. They enjoyed it (it was in the form of a PP presentation) but I think it would have been neater if I could have made it in a type of slideshow format that looked more like a video - like what we did in class the night we used the MACs. I think this would have held their attention even more.

In the future, I think I could:
1) Videotape students acting out dialogues or plays in French
2) Make a video of things outside the school containing French culture
3) Present videos in class with my projector that have to do with the lessons being taught