WebEnglish.se Theme Pages always include loads of videos. Of course, it is up to each teacher to decide how to use the videos and experienced teachers can find many effective ways to enhance their students learning by working with videos with their students.
In the poll that was out during the summer, we received a request for some guides to using WebEnglish.se materials. While I have been thinking about writing the guide, I ran into a slide show by David Deubelbeiss, including 48 slides with excellent ideas on using videos in the classroom. You can access it here.
Lots of examples, advice, and resources for all teachers in this comprehensive handbook about the new textbook – video!
However, one of the ways I often use WebEnglish.se videos myself was not listed:
Let’s say we want to learn about Shakespeare. First I ask the students to work in groups and write down what they already know. While they are thinking, I draw a starting point of a mindmap on the whiteboard (nowadays this could be done digitally). The students then write the things they came up with to the mindmap. Then we watch the first video. After watching, I ask: “What more do you know now?” and the students add this to the mindmap. We continue watching and adding until we have learned “enough”. Finally, the students can write a short essay about what they have learned about Shakespeare. A bit of metacognition can be added, if they start the essay by admitting how little they knew before the class.