In today's lesson, we learnt to use Adobe Spark and Screencast-o-matic for oral instruction and expression. Both of them are free and user-friendly.
In Adobe Spark, students can just prepare some pictures and the script, and do the recording with the picture uploaded on that slide. They can also choose the background music and the theme for the topic. I think my P4 students can master Adobe Spark in a short time and they can produce their own products!! It is also good for them to practise their speaking and show their creativity when making the video. However, I may need to consider one problem that we may encounter when we want to do this activity - sometimes the webpage may not be able to support so much recording work done simultaneously. Anyway, I would like to have a try later in November when we come to the topic 'When I was little'. Students will need to make a short video about the time when they were small (though they are P4) and talk about what they could do (the target language focus).
Screencast-o-matic is an useful tool for producing instructional video. I've just thought of an idea to use it for my explanation to some reading exercises with my class. What I have found is that spending time explaining reading exercises during lessons needs much time. Also, students who have done well tend not to listen to me but those who have done poorly need my explanation. To save time from giving explanation during lesson, Screencast-o-matic may be a good alternative. I can just spend a few minutes recording the video of explaining an exercise and send the link to students via intranet email. Therefore, if students think they have to do correction or understand better about the passage, they can simply go to YouTube and watch the Screencast-o-matic video.
Task 1 - A readaloud video produced with Adobe Spark
The video is about two of the verses of a poem in Chapter 1 of Longman Elect Book 4A. The topic is hobbies. (Sorry for the poor quality of my voice as I am not feeling well)
Task 2 - An instructional video made by Screencast-o-matic, explaining a reading comprehension exercise (Sorry that the video is a bit long though there are only 5 questions in the exercise.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9j6orpnvwsiqh15/Screencasting.mp4?dl=0
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