Student DVDs

On Tuesday night, I video-taped my MSA class doing presentations. I then put the video onto my computer, used Adobe Premier Elements to do some basic editing, and burned the movie to a DVD. On Friday, I showed the DVD to our school manager with the hope that he would buy me some blank DVDs to make copies for each student. He seemed impressed with the outcome, so he has sent my DVD to the Daechi office to make copies. I look forward to getting the copies to give to the students.

This project is something I did a year and a half ago in a school competition for the teachers. My team had won a prize worth about $2500 for making digital portfolios of student presentations, but the school has not promoted the making of portfolios since then. With my own interest in technology, I have decided to make use of my own equipment to make videos for the students.

The value of videos is that the students get to see what they look and sound like, which allows them to evaluate themselves as speakers of English. As well, I have learned that the students really enjoy seeing themselves, although they sometimes feel embarrassed. Definitely, it is a worthwhile experience in the EFL classroom.