Just want to let everyone know that I am posting this on FRIDAY! So, I think that using a video camera in the foreign language classroom would be a fun. The students would have a lot of freedom to be creative with the language. And as we have learned in class last week, it is really not too hard to upload a video and edit it with transitions and what not.
I have had friends who have had to film themselves for their classes with video cameras. They had to come up with a creative skit about anything, it just had to be five minutes long. Some other ideas for activities could be that when learning about weather, the students could film their own weather forecast like they see on the news. Or when learning about clothing, they could film thier own fashion show. They could do documentary videos about a certain cultural topic. Another idea is to work with a native speaker and do a recorded interview. I think there are numerous avenues you could take with a video assignment.
A few drawbacks I can think of would be that not every student has a video camera they could use to film with. And if the school provides them they could have a limited number or not be able to take them off campus which could limit what they could do with it. And it may be possible that they school doesn't even have video cameras.
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I'm not sold on the idea of using video cameras in the FL classroom. It seems like this bit of technology risks turning the FL class into a TV productions class in which the focus is more on the technology itself than on language production. And I'm saying this as a journalism student!
Yeah! You are posting and early! Interesting thoughts. Try to do some searching on youtube and/or google to help you find more ideas.
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