Video is greatly underused in teaching

 Sharing here Seven Videos on the Effective Use of Video, a great post by Tony Bates about how video is greatly underused in Higher Education. I think it's not just HE, but education in general, and although there is a long tradition of using video content for language teaching, especially as sites such as Youtube offer a rich source of authentic language, I suspect there is a lot more that teachers could be doing with video.

One of the great features of videos posted on Youtube is the topicality and inventedness, and much of that comes from remixing content. The following video is one of the best recent examples of this:

Of the videos Tony Bates shares in his post, my favourite is the use of video in interactive simulation game. This is a game that asks students to make decisions during a health assessment home visit, aand is a fabulous example of how an educational decision-tree game that features video can be used for education. A bit complicated and probably beyond the ability of most teachers to design, but the possibilities are endless with this type of format:

It's definitely an idea/format I would like to explore.

How to create branching video

There are a number of posts that look helpful if you want to start

• How to create an interactive video on Youtube - A video with suggestions on how to create a simulation / choose your ownn adventure story with multiple videos (see video below).
• How can I make an interactive branching video?
• What is interactive video? (Best examples and software)
• Stornaway - a website allowing for more sophisticated interactive video to be created (free version available)

Longer version of the above video is here.

ADHD & Autism: Teachers Talk Radio Sunday lunchtime show

On today's Teachers Talk Radio show, I spoke to Neurodivergent parent, Kate, about her experience of home educating two boys with autism / ADHD.

Inclusive practices: Teachers Talk Radio with Gerard McLoughlin

On today's Sunday lunchtime show, I spoke to Gerard McLoughlin about inclusive practices in #education, especially #ELT, and was joined at the end of the show by Phil Longwell.

Creative Writing and ELT on TTR

 I really enjoyed speaking to Larbi Arbaoui about creative writing and ELT on my Teachers Talk Radio show today. The recording of this can be found here, and it's also on the Teachers Talk Radio Youtube channel.

Among other things, Larbi spoke about the Oliveseed foundation and the short story competition and anthologies of student writing.

AI & Language teaching and learning - TTR with Joe Dale

Today, I was pleased to have Joe Dale join me for the second time on my Teachers Talk Radio show.

Among other things, Joe is UK Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant in the UK Former host of TES MFL forum & short-listed for NAACE Impact Award 2013 for Curriculum Support.

Over the last couple of years, Joe has established his expertise in the use of artifical intelligence in language teaching and learning, and so it was fascinating to talk to him about this, and he generously shared his knowledge and experience of using a wide number of AI tools and how to use them with language learners.

The recording of the show is below (and another (longer) audio recording is here)

Joe shared the transcript of our conversation here, and an audio overview, produced by Google's notetaking assistant, NotebookLM. 

I highly recommend keeping an eye on Joe through Twitter (X) and following Joe's Youtube channel if you want more useful ideas. 

Joe also runs the Language Teaching with AI Facebook group, which has become a thriving community, with lots of sharing of ideas and discussion on how best to use AI in our sector. 

Below are links to some of the AI tools Joe talked about:

• https://www.briskteaching.com/
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/23.94/-102.58
• https://www.screencastify.com/
• https://www.loom.com/
• https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/mind_maps/105279339696
• https://asuo-images.streamlit.app/
• https://mizou.com/
• https://www.magicschool.ai/
• https://schoolai.com/
• https://www.eduaide.ai/
• https://www.perplexity.ai/
• whisper ai
• https://turboscribe.ai/
• https://web.diffit.me/
• https://audiopen.ai/
• https://padlet.help/l/en/article/w9yl61m88g-magic-padlet

In addition, Joe recently shared a list of Accessibility and AI tools for language learning and a cross-curricular summary of accessibility and AI tools.

TTR: Critical Citizenship with Eugenia Carrión

On today's Teachers Talk Radio show, I was joined by Eugenia Carrion from Argentina for a conversation centring around critical citizenship. You can listen to the show at this link or on Youtube (below).

Decentring ELT - Teachers Talk Radio

 Decentring English Language Teaching (ELT) was the topic of todays' Teachers Talk Radio show. We also talked about AI and action research in ELT. You can listen back to the conversation I had with Leonardo Lima from Brazil on Youtube (below) or at this link.