QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #67
Vlogging
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Lest you believe my spelling skills have gone south, read on. No, plain old text blogging is not yet passé, but if typing your thoughts is good, filming them just might be better.
A videoblog, or vlog, is a Web log (blog) that primarily utilizes video rather than text or audio. Videoblogging offers a richer experience than text blogging by combining movies, sound, still images, and text. New technologies make images and video easy to produce, so anyone with a digital camera or camera-equipped cell phone and Internet access can create a vlog. Based on the popularity of blogs and podcasts, and growing access to video tools, videoblogging is likely to increase in popularity among faculty and students.
from http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=666&ID=ELI7005&bhcp=1
There is a small but growing number of vloggers who believe that videoblogging will transform the Internet into a medium in which people can communicate audiovisually through personal video posts and globally network with people as well as to create new independent programming and content not controlled by major broadcasting networks or cable outlets. These practices revolutionize online communication.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog
Jared and I taught a videoblogging class this week for the Learning Annex and learned a lot ourselves. Among the pieces of knowledge imparted to us from our fabulous students: videoblogging really does attract people of all ages (our class was senior citizens - who would ever have guessed..) and people who have never blogged or videoblogged before can define RSS and know all about del.icio.us (web knowledge is truly going mainstream.)
from http://www.pokkari.com/blog/2005/12/18/learning-annex-class/
“blip.tv is a video blogging, podcasting and sharing service. If you don't have a blog, we'll give you one. If you have a blog already, we'll make it a video blog. Please take a tour.”
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,68203-0.html
“Whether you want to show off your vegetable garden, film your child's solo in a 7th-grade choir concert or create an Oscar-winning masterpiece, building a vlog is a great way to showcase your video skills.”
“The rapid expansion in the number of vlogs and Web sites offering video podcasts strongly suggests how bored viewers are getting with standard commercial TV: a growing number of them are willing to seek out alternatives online, or just create one themselves… Rocketboom includes reports from vloggers both near (Boston) and far (Prague)…”
“Welcome to Freevlog 2.5 - A step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free.”
Previous editions of the QUICK RESOURCE SHEET
#1 – Creating quizzes (and more) online
#2 – Vocabulary builders
#3 – Online discussion groups for English teachers
#4 – Grammar headaches – and how to cure them
#5 – Resources for new teachers
#6 – International Education Week
#7 – Mentoring programs
#8 – Education publications online
#9 – Applied Linguistics
#10 – English for Young Learners
#11 – World AIDS Day
#12 – Online writing guides
#13 – E-mail exchanges
#14 – Free online English courses
#15 – Effective e-mail communication
#16 – Libraries online
#17 – American Studies
#18 – Teaching methodologies
#19 – Internet tutorials
#20 – Using the newspaper – Part I
#21 – Making books
#22 - Using the newspaper – Part II
#23 – Human rights in language teaching
#24 – Blogging
#25 – Poetry and language teaching
#26 – The communicative approach
#27 - Idioms
#28 – Earth Day
#29 – Alternative assessment
#30 – Peer assessment
#31 – Self-assessment
#32 – Portfolio assessment – Part I
#33 - Portfolio assessment - Part II (Online Portfolios)
#34 – Intercultural communication
#35 – Teaching Adults
#36 – Learning disorders / Special needs
#37 – Using computers in reading instruction
#38 – Use of authentic materials
#39 – English for Medical Purposes
#40 – Sources for authentic materials
#41 – Education and technology
#42 – Academic writing
#43 – Teaching and stress
#44 – Back to school
#45 – Motivating students
#46 – Action research
#47 – Internet terminology
#48 – Fluency
#49 – Curriculum design
#50 – Pragmatics
#51 - Podcasting for English teachers
#52 – Critical reading
#53 – Learner autonomy
#54 – Scaffolding
#55 – Holidays
#56 – English for Academic Purposes
#57 – Mixed-level classes
#58 – The brain and language learning
#59 – Book clubs/Readers’ groups
#60 – Teachers and technology
#61 – Using video in the language classroom
#62 – Internet-based classroom projects
#63 – Observing student teachers
#64 – Digital literacy
#65 – Group work
#66 – Giving feedback on student writing