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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Imagiers on Youtube
I subscribed to the channel belonging to Imagiers a while ago.
Originally, I saw the traditional songs below -
Today I saw that there was new series - Les comptines de Gros nez. This is a series of 63 French rhymes / songs 'sung' by a cartoon blue man with a big red nose. For example -
Alternatively, you could use Les comptines de la souris -
Also on Imagiers are many vocabulary videos like the one below -
There are thousands of videos on the channel - some are more advanced grammar and so on, others are simpler vocabulary presentations. And some are not French at all - eg there are several clips about Helsinki!
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Guernica
A beautiful, moving video of the Picasso painting Guernica, presented here in 3D. The music makes it all the more haunting.
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Friday, 12 February 2010
Lisibo @ BETT
BETT seems ages ago - but it's only a month.
However, it's a very long time to have neglected to blog my thoughts. I have been exceptionally busy since then - excuses excuse! - so much so that I've been struggling to keep up with life let alone blogging.
However, I was reminded that there is a clip of me doing what comes naturally - talking! Leon Cych asked me if I'd record a minute of my impressions of BETT - well, it's a bit longer than that! Excuse me if it rambles a bit - I was very tired and had an excruciatingly sore back!
I think what I said having only been at BETT for 2 hours was still true after a day and a half. What makes and made BETT special for me is meeting people and sharing ideas. I did see a brilliant weather making green screen thing on the Kudlian stand - Jo Rhys-Jones and I got rather excited about the prospect of using it in language learning - Chris Fuller disowned us at that point!! And I had a marvellous time on the 2Simple stand - their products are brilliant (please could they make them Mac compatible though ;o)) But mostly it was TMTakeover, Teachmeet and meeting up with random people that made my BETT.
There are lots of other OSS videos with Dawn Hallybone, Zoe Ross, David Noble too. Check them out on the OpenSourceSchools channel on Youtube.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
You can't be my teacher.
Very challenging video that I've seen all over, but originally on JessMcCulloch's blog.
Friday, 22 January 2010
A Storybird as a movie!
Following a Twitter conversation this afternoon started by @josepicardo, I remembered that I had taken screen shots of all my Storybirds and made them into Keynote presentations.
Whilst I can export them to Powerpoint quite easily if they are just images, I had recorded narration on one of them, and this would not transfer. So, I exported it as a Quicktime movie - and here it is!
I'll be making more 'movies' with my other Storybirds soon!
In the meantime, you can check out lots of language Storybirds here on a wiki started by @wizenedcrone.
Sunday, 10 January 2010
eTwinning in the primary language classroom - why is it so great?
Following on from my previous post about rediscovering Seesmic, another friend, John Warwick, asked me to share a little bit about eTwinning in the primary language classroom for an eTwinning presentation he was preparing. I decided to record him my answer as it's easier to explain in person and I also thought it might be useful too! So here it is!
If you want to find out more, see my Slideshare and post here.
Rediscovering Seesmic
A while back - actually nearly two years ago - I became aware of a tool called Seesmic on which you could record video clips and others could respond by recording their own short clip. At the time, I used it to join in a few conversations and also to practice speaking Catalan / Mallorquin after a looong break. It was easy to do and fun as well.
I was asked last week by Chris Fuller to make a short video sharing my thoughts on using Twitter in the languages classroom and why it's such a good idea in my opinion for a presentation he's doing soon.
As I was home alone, I had to do it in a way that didn't involve another person filming me, and my hand is unsteady at the best of times! I had never used the film option on Photobooth, and I was also concerned about delivering it to Chris via email in case the file was too large.
I had picked up a tweet at about the same time from Leon Cych asking for volunteers to be involved in a project this year called Remixing Education, and one of his methods of 'recruiting' was via Seesmic.
So, having been reminded of the existence of this site, and having recorded a response for Leon, I decided to use it to record my clip for Chris.
It's very easy! Once you've signed up for an account, you press Create a video and start talking into your webcam (iSight camera in my case). Once you've finished you can review the recording and start again if you're not happy. It's then posted on the site - you can choose whether to allow it to appear on the public timeline or just to keep it on your page.
Once finished, I sent the URL and embed code off to Chris so that he could use the clip as he wished, editing it etc to his purposes.
I thought that would be that, but the ever eagle eyed king of RSS feeds, Joe Dale, picked up the clip on his radar and, having ascertained why I'd posted a clip to some mysterious 'Chris', blogged it!
And then I was astonished to receive a lovely response from a lady in Anaheim, USA who had seen the clip and wanted to tell me how good it was! A wonderful surprise and so exciting for someone unrelated to my life - real and virtual (Twitter, my blog etc) - to make such comments about my thoughts and 'work'.
We all need a bit of encouragement sometimes, so thanks to Joe and Freida for giving me some to keep me going when I'm seizing up with all this cold ;o)
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Ya Nada Volvera A Ser Como Antes by El Canto Del Loco
Found this via the LiverpoolFC Twitter feed!
And given my love of Spain, music and, most of all, Nando, I just had to share it with you.
Just one thing - that girl is MAD!
Friday, 1 January 2010
¡Feliz Año Nuevo 2010!
Happy New Year to all readers of ¡Vámonos!
I'll leave it to ABBA to say it in Spanish!
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Yo ♥ Pocoyo
Given my love of Pocoyo and the imminent festivities, I just had to share this clip with you.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Teachers TV
Yesterday saw the premiere of the programme - I came downstairs at 8am to discover my children laughing their heads off as they watched. Thankfully, not all viewers were as amused and I received some lovely tweets from people who had seen the programme either online or on TV.
If you want to watch, you can access the video on the Teachers TV site where you can also find lesson plans and further tips on the area.
So, watch and see - will you join my boys laughing at me or will you find it even a little bit helpful?
Friday, 27 March 2009
¡Pocoyo y la hora del Planeta!
I'm a great fan of Pocoyo - just a shame that Stephen Fry doesn't do the voiceover for the Spanish version. In the following video, Pocoyo encourages us to join in with La Hora del Planeta.
Tomorrow from 8.30-9.30pm is Earth Hour - when we are encouraged to switch off the lights and vote for the Earth.
A cute clip with a worthwhile message that little things - and little people! - can make a big difference.
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Who would have thought....
Yesterday I ran in my first ever running race. At Teachmeet on January I stood up in front of a room full of people and told them what I'd been doing in my classroom with technology.
If you'd told me a year ago that's what I'd be doing in January 2009, I would have laughed. Lots.
But, as I entitled my Teachmeet presentation - What a difference a year makes!
Below is what I said at Teachmeet, along with links to the work we've done (omitted to show any of it on the night as I was so nervous!)
Lisa Stevens (lisibo) @ TeachMeet BETT from Learn4Life on Vimeo.
Our wiki is http://wcps.wikispaces.com and our school website http://www.whitehousecommon.org.uk
And, bless him, this is what Drew Buddie said about me!
Last one of two bits of feedback from TeachMeet at EatMeet from Learn4Life on Vimeo.
And here's the last 50m of the race in Sutton Park yesterday. It was a handicap race, with each participant estimating how long it would take them to run 5km. We were then set off that amount of time before 1a so in theory we should all have arrived in a bunch together. As it was, I finished in 26 minutes 46 seconds which was 14 seconds off my estimate, and won a prize as I was 5th nearest! Ironically, if I hadn't had to stop on the final corner because I was heaving s much, I wouldn't have won anything because I'd have been too fast.
So - what will you be doing this time next year? You never know!
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Animoto gets text!
I first used Animoto during the Voices of the World project last year when we made a short 30 second video featuring pictures that the children had drawn of Spain accompanied by a rather dubious rendition of the Spanish Himno Nacional by most of Key Stage 2.
Animoto describes itself as follows:
Animoto produces TV-quality music videos using your photos in just minutes.
It's so simple to do too. Choose a song as the soundtrack to your video and Animoto will analyze every nuance of it. Producing a totally unique video each time, no two videos are ever the same.
I thought it was a good tool then although the limit to 30 seconds for the free vers
ion was a little annoying. A while back, I saw it reported that educators could have a free account (saving you $30) and I was sure I'd registered then. However, it seems I hadn't as when I went back today, I didn't have an account. So I rapidly registered and began playing!I'd been reminded of Animoto by a Twitter message saying that you could now add text to Animoto. So, having uploaded lots of pictures of flowers taken in my garden from iPhoto as a test Animoto video and then remixed it, I set about investigating the new facility.
I uploaded a set of photos from my Flickr account entitled Spanish food and drink. Next I sorted them a bit so that they were grouped vaguely. My first text screen was the title page, then I added a section title - Tapas and a comments about gazpacho - Me gusta mucho :o) . I then thought I'd make use of a set of pictures to tell a story - a man choosing from the menu and then enjoying his morning break - thanks to my model ;o) I was a little disappointed that you couldn't subtitle the pictures as I'd envisaged making a slideshow to teach food words. However, you could insert a text slide before or after each picture for revision I guess! Having selected a suitable piece of music from the Animoto library, I let Animoto work its magic and voilà - a video that can be emailed, uploaded to Youtube, downloaded and embedded as it is below.
If you want to learn more about Animoto, why not check out the site or the case studies section where you can find out how educators have used Animoto in their classroom.
I'll be exploring further and will keep you informed of how things go!!
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Com sobreviure un atac zombie.
Estigiu preparats!
The not
es accompanying the video say:
"Hi, I was looking for something interesting at archive.org and I found your (lonebanana)short film 'What to do in a zombie attack'. I have to say that I found it terrific, i was laughing out loud the first time i was watching it! I'm a high school teacher in Barcelona (Spain) and I was thinking to translate it into catalan (a language we talk in Catalunya, in the north of Spain and south of France) to show it to my pupils. Also I was thinking about giving a translated copy to a couple of friends who work in horror festivals to see if they can be interested in showing your short film. Great film!!"
Fun idea - you never know when you'll be be attacked by zombies ;o)
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Estic constipada :o(
Avui, estic molt constipada. No puc respirar bé. Tampoc puc pensar - a l'anglès i encara menys a català.
Per això, un conte bonic que m'agrada - i també coneixo molt bé :o)
Les tres ossos i la Rinxols d'or
[PS - In case you're puzzled, I have a cold. As José Picardo kindly explained when I tweeted my condition yesterday, it's English that is scatalogical ;o)]
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Law of languages
With the Beijing Olympics a couple of weeks away, here's a news story from China about one policeman's efforts to make visitors feel welcome.
In an effort to help tourists, he has learned how to greet people in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Italian and Portuguese. Phew! And he did it by chatting to tourists from those countries - just the advice we give to learners - have go!
Not sure about his taste in movies though ;o)
Monday, 7 July 2008
¡España gana otra vez!
Although Fernando Alonso let the side down, Spain are at it again, winning!
On Saturday, Alejandro Valverde opened the Tour de France with a win on Stage one from Brest to Plumelec.
And then on Sunday, Rafael Nadal finally conquered Roger Federer on grass at Wimbledon after a roller coaster of a game. Without the good old English weather, Rafa would have won in straight sets, and saved much nailbiting, but we'd have missed an epic tussle between two incredible tennis players.
And to cap it all, he became the first player to ever climb into the Royal Box!!
Not sure how Rafa'd feel about the assertion that he's 'ante todo, español' as a proud Mallorquí, but all of Spain is proud of him!
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