Student Projects

For this term's level 2-3 students I made an assignment I had not tried before. I decided to take my knowledge of the Window Movie Maker program and teach my students how to make videos. This project involved writing and speaking on a topic and then turning their writing into a video. First they had to write a draft, have a peer edit it, and then submit it to the teacher for

further error correction. After that they had to type it up in the computer lab, correcting it further until they got it right. When this was done, they had to rehearse reading it, and then record and edit it in an audio program called "Adaucity" which allows them to add background music (mostly mine which you may have heard before if you follow my videos). Finally, they had to bring in their videos or find videos and illustrations from the internet that fit the topic and then edit all of these into a Windows Movie Maker project.



The topic for their project had to involve some aspect of UAE culture. This is a bit over-done as topics go, but it is one that they can talk about in plenty and have first hand expert knowledge of! There are a few errors in some of the credits which I have left in (there is a certain amount of humor in them, and it is, after all, authentic ESL writing). I was very pleased with their efforts, especially at self-correction as they listened and edited their speaking portion.

Improvisation on a theme

I posted this to Facebook, but I have a number of friends who don't do Facebook, so this is here for them. It is improvisation and I have a tendency for these things to pop out of my head. It is unpracticed and spontaneous, and therefore imperfect, but there was something about it that I liked. I'm glad I recorded it because it would be gone forever.