Oz et Virgo

Thanks to the article Digital Video goes to schools, we can see the large panel of skills developed by students when involved in the creation of a digital video. Students are enthusiastic, motivated and confident they can achieve well.

Creating a video requires time but also logistic, students learn to be responsible for their part of creation.

I do believe that for a LOTE teacher, digital video is a wonderful tool. Students can do researches about the subject, decide of what they want to create, organise themselves in different learning and creative groups and use the target language as a tool for their creation. They can use their four skills in the Target Language, reading when seeking information, listening to other people’s ideas in the TL, speaking about their ideas in the TL and finally writing their project from the brainstorming to a complete scenario or story board.

In this project students are mostly autonomous; they learn to work together, to share ideas and to create something. They also learn about different techniques and improve their TL skills. They can create new reports or documentaries about events from the TL country or write poetries that they can illustrate with images, they can create a short film in the TL or create a travel video after a trip overseas. They can create videos to communicate with students from other countries. Digital video seems the most complete tool that the new technologies can offer, allowing students to use all their knowledge and aptitudes.

~ by virgo on 12 octobre 2008. Tagged: Digital video, LOTE