Video with Teaching

     Video is a good tool which enriches the class and also appeals to students. It assists teachers with showing the main point in their class clearly.
     I think this tool is good for introducing some holidays or a simple idea with students, especially children who just start to learn English. If I use it in a grammar class, I would compose a short video with a grammar rule and music to teach students.  Each slide will contain just one idea. If I put the grammar rule first, then I will put a sample sentence after it and more slides with pictures showing how this rule can be used under what kind of situation. If it is a reading class, I would transform the short story or text we are going to read in to a storytelling video and play it after we cover the all reading. It not only will attracts students' attention and prevents them from getting bored but also can deepen their memory and provide them a brief review. But, it is significant and necessary to switch the images in video based on the age of students I teach. If they are children, providing them some comics or cutes images will be fine. However, if they are college students, the pictures in video should be changed.
     The ultimate goal of teaching not only resides on students' understanding but the cultivation of their interests. A good video clip with proper teaching can help students learn happily and efficiently.

It's a video I made with Animoto which briefly introduces the meaning of Easter.

Pay Attention!

     Most of the time, as teachers, the question that arises in our hearts may be what kind of material I should prepare to teach students, how I can help them improve themselves or if students would think my class is boring or too hard to them.... After watching the video, "Pay Attention," it reminds me to think how students learn. The ways they learn are various. They may learn logically, spatially, musically, or linguistically.  In 21st-centruy, they learn digitally when playing video game, talking on cell phones, watching TV, and using computers which is the most common tool that people use everyday. Not only because it is convenient but because the rich information that one can find through browsing. Honestly, the sentence "How much richness does your curriculum  provide" impress me a lot because it actually points out an important point in a teacher's instruction. The information that a teacher can cover definitely will not be as rich as computers because the limitation of time and lesson plan. But, on computers, students are able to get as many information as they want and at any time. Also, as suggested in the video, students have the chance the create with digital devices which is something that a traditional way of learning cannot offer. Being a teacher 21st century, I think it is important to offer a site of teacher-student interaction not only in classroom but through digital sources. Further, there are lots of free sources online that can compensate the inadequacy of traditional teaching. It is really significant that teaching in 21st century is completely different from the previous; teaching no longer merely belongs to be offer by teachers but also by digital devices. And, learning is not just students' responsibility anymore; teachers in this century have to keep learning how to use digital sources to improve their students.