A Film Log for Teachers

A very simple, but useful, idea is to keep up a list of films and its possible uses on a blog. This way, teachers can share their ideas for using different films for different reasons.

One example of a good reference for a movie is, as follows:

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Reasons besides being a good movie for whole film response activities

1) Language (scenes 7, 8 and 10)
2) Subtext (scenes 7 and 12)
3) Culture (scenes 12 and 13)
4) Roleplay (scenes 9 and 10)

You can, instead, list the above purposes for using films and relate the appropriate films and scenes below the category's name.

Language Use

1) E.T. - scenes 7, 8 and 10

Subtext

1) E.T. - scenes 7 and 12
2) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - scene 1


And so on. Both ways you can share valuable information about movies you and your colleagues have used well in the Language Classroom.

Blogger and the video upload feature

Hello everyone, in one of my last posts I've said Blogger/Blogspot didn't offer the video feature as in Wordpress. In fact, when I wrote the post it didn't really have the feature, but Blogger's just gotten it. In fact it was released exactly on the same day I posted the summary. And it's gotten an even better feature, comparing to Wordpress, since you don't need any host for the video. You'll upload your videos directly from your computer.

That means you can now upload your pieces just like you do on YouTube, for example, into the blog, instead of just creating an hyperlink to it. This way you'll be able to make videos look like this one below in your own blog interface.



As we all know, technology is always changing really fast. So, whenever you have any doubt, please, double check it 'cause in a few minutes things can change a lot when it comes down to Web 2.0 platforms.