We´ll begin with online photo sharing. Putting an image gallery in a blog post can be very useful in order to share visual aids with students in an interactive way. Image galleries have many applications in TEFL. Being able to create your own gallery - tailored exactly to your needs for a particular lesson - and share it on a tutor or class blog is a powerful educational tool. The video below shows how to use a web app called QuickGallery to post albums from your existing accounts on sites like Facebook or Flickr to your blog. This is not the only way to post an album, but it is a very convenient method. Take a look:
Now, let´s move on to online video sharing. You already know how to put a Youtube video in a blog post, but what about creating your own YT video? This can also be a very useful tool for an EFL teacher. You can create videos of yourself in order to communicate with your students outside of class, or you can incorporate existing media into a new video that fits your particular educational needs. For now, we are going to focus on some of the more basic elements of creating and posting a Youtube video. Please watch the 2-part video series below:
In your homework readings, you will delve deeper into the educational applications of Youtube videos and online image galleries. You will also practice using these tools - and creating your own material - in the final two posts of the blog project during the next two weeks.
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