Speaking through technology, is possible? And how to create your video lesson

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This post is based in the article: "The Employment of CALL iin Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills"

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10 years ago, go to the computer lab meant, learn how to use the computer, and actually that was enough, because maybe curriculums never expect that in 10 years later, what schools paid for learn, how to use a pice of plastic, will be able to learn through a smaller pice of plastic (Cellphones)
Nowadays, technology become one of the most important tool when education we talk, it almost had become symbiotic.
but thanks to that evolution, Andresito will be happy to know that now go to the computer lab means learn a subject through strategies and his knowledge will develop in the areas that he needs to become useful.

The article teaches us two types of dimensions that are the ones that shows interesting statements realted with how to teach different skills through technology.

1) Mechanical dimension: 
According with the article, this dimension can be understanded as a practical one, what to do and how to do it.
Some nice, ideas are presented, for example some of the advantages are: Private envarionments, students have the capacity to leads their own learning process.
Why this dimension got my attention? Well, something is true... Humans get tired to being teaching someone the same thing one time and other.
Some softwares, works on in speaking skills, those softwares can repeat a phoneme as many times as the student ask for it, nice right?


2) Meaningful dimension:
This dimension can be understanded as, how important is to learn through real world activities.
Simulated world, is one of the phrases that got my attention. well, sometimes develop in a real world is difficult, for example in El salvador the social situation had become even a life role that everybody have to live on with.
So technology offers a virtual version of reality. so through it, students are able to develop social skills.

In conclusion.
Tecnology has lacks like all the fields in our world, but nowadays is presenting interesting propurses that can help students to develop their knowledge.
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This blog is based on the article "Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English"

Video lessons are interesting for students and more if the ones that creates those videos are doing it according with specific information and sources that help them in the duty.
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The article presents some interesting ideas related of: How to create a interesting video for your students?

First, we need to create a video based on dairly life situations, such as: • brushing my teeth with an electric toothbrush. Why? beacuse students can get familiar with this!!
That is the point, do something meaningful for them!!

Second, Edit the video, the article presents some ways to do it friendly:
• Silent viewing (playing the video with - out the sound)
• Freeze framing (freezing the picture and asking the students what they think will happen next)
Those are some examples of how to do it
If you pay attention, You can base your task according of how you edit your video.
for example: If you want to develp listening, you can only plays with a different track or character your excercises.

Third, how to teach your video lesson
Obviously, for it you need some certain things, like a proyector, a TV, a computer, etc
Some guide works has to be given to the students, and some oral questions have to be done by the teacher.

Besides, How to teach vocabulary and grammar.
Freeze the video for example and then ask is one nice way to watch how captable stuends are. then you ask certain questions related with the tense or with the context.

Conclusion.
Education is not a straight way, everything depends of how you want to do it.

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