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Making and Sharing Video Clips with Young Adult ESOL Learners

Join the Web2English community and explore the benefits of making and sharing video clips with young adult ESOL learners. Discover project ideas, view examples, and bridge the gap between formal education and everyday literacy practices.

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Making and Sharing Video Clips with Young Adult ESOL Learners

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  1. Making and sharing video clips with young adult ESOL learners Richard Gresswell NATESOL / IATEFL Teacher’s Day 2011

  2. Outline the purpose of making and sharing video clips with young adult ESOL learners Show you some examples of video clip making and sharing by ESOL learners Discuss some classroom project ideas Welcome you to a new video sharing community - ‘Web2English’

  3. In the UK, there is a growing ESOL provision ‘focus’ on learners aged between 16 and 19, many of whom have had limited or interrupted access to formal education in their lives

  4. Literacy, for these young people is often seen as an ‘issue’ ‘in a ‘classroom sense’

  5. Classroom and assessment practices in ESOL are based around ‘print’ literacies of one form or another

  6. These are ‘alien’ literacies to young people nowadays

  7. Outside classrooms, young adult ESOL learners are using the Internet, texting, chatting, sharing photos, sharing music, videos

  8. formal educationdoes not ! While, these are the kind of literacies that young people value today…

  9. We have a border between the cultures of school and youthHow do we facilitate crossing this border, and make participation in formal education more accessible for these young people?

  10. I propose a two-way bridge modelIn one direction, we see possibilities for digital technologies to create access to the ‘privileged’ classroom literacieswhile in the other, opportunities to value young people’s literacy practices

  11. Watch these learner videos@ www.vimeo.com/groups/web2english How can we understand such literacy work in terms of the two-way bridge model?

  12. Sharing videos through a class blog

  13. What kind of music do you like? http://esolphoto.blogspot.com/2010/05/ethiopian-gospel-song-in-leeds.html

  14. ESOL Classroom Projects more ideas from www.web2literacy.com

  15. Welcome to Web2Englishwww.vimeo.com/groups/web2english

  16. Web2English is a community of ESOL teachers and learners who are making and sharing short films. It is an experimental space where films and resources can be shared, and in doing so further develop the use of film media in language / literacy education. about Web2English

  17. about Web2English The collaborative making and sharing of short films is an enjoyable and creative way of telling stories. It is an accessible means of participation in formal education.

  18. What can I do in Web2English? Contribute download or simply watch videos

  19. What can I do in Web2English? Share resources

  20. What can I do in Web2English? Raise awareness of upcoming events

  21. What can I do in Web2English? Take part in useful and interesting discussions

  22. What can I do in Web2English? Connect with people and organisations who share your interests and concerns

  23. How can I get involved? Join the community @ www.vimeo.com/groups/web2english

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