Close to a year ago on this blog, I posted about an experimental application designed to help teachers test their speaking AND teaching skills fully online.
There wasn't much in the way of feedback or enthusiasm at the time in response to that post, but I am very happy to report that a teacher has gone into the application recently and posted some video responses to some of the tasks there!
While this teacher has chosen to remain anonymous, I would like to congratulate her on being willing to go ahead and give the application a try, using actual video (and knowing this video would be publicly accessible on the Web).
Here is one of the tasks our brave teacher chose to tackle...
The challenge is to look at the title and picture for a new unit of study from a coursebook, and to talk about (or elicit talk about) the picture to give the students a good introduction to the new unit. The teacher only has one minute to give a response.
Here is a bigger version of the unit introduction the teacher needed to talk about:
And here is the introduction the teacher provided via Eyejot:
So why don't we reward this proactive teacher's bravery and willingness to "give it a try" by giving her some constructive feedback?
- Given she only had one minute to introduce the unit based on this image, how do you think she went?
- Can you point out some of the things she did well?
- How about some suggestions to help her improve?
I'm sure she would love to get your feedback!
Take a minute and make another teacher's day...
:-)
