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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Common Craft

                                                      Blogs; Podcasts & RSS in Plain English



One of the troubling concerns that face today’s language teachers is their inexperience in teaching a certain area of education or education that they are not familiar with, which is the case within CLIL environment . In addition, they could be asked to teach ESP in a Business course, even a course especially for trained soldiers, or as in my case I had to teach petroleum extraction courses!!!

What is this & why to use it?

Check this video on the importance on blogs first:







This tool will provide explanation to scientific, educational, social, and technological videos in an extremely simplified language for both teachers and learners to develop a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of some basic up-to-date concept of main interest.

• All the videos had been produced in the most succinct and brief way in about 3minutes on average with great care and skill to cater to various needs and levels of understanding.

• Both simplicity and brevity of these video demonstrations will increase enjoyment in watching that in turn will ensure intrinsic motivation.

• Presenting the materials in such an appealing and easy-to-understand way promotes scaffolding of learning because language might be a little above learners’ level.

• These can be used as warm-ups for a class previous research, or follow-up activities to check learners’ predictions on certain concepts.

• They make use of multimedia in a lighthearted way to appeal to all kind of learners.

Now check this video on what RSS is and how to be used:



Limitations:

They cannot be embedded unless you register for money. However, they are free downloadable, and don’t require high speed internet!!!

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