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Shoot, Cut & Upload: Creating Audiovisual Material for Foreign Language Teaching

Region: East Midlands [More East Midlands news...]

Posted on: Thursday, 28 Jan 2010

Bios - Life Long Learning Center has organised a language teacher training course entitled:

Shoot, Cut & Upload: Creating Audiovisual Material for Foreign Language Teaching

This course is being held in Cyprus from the 8th to the 13th of October 2010.

Course description:
The aim of the course is to show foreign language teachers how to create their own audiovisual teaching material. The course is of special interest to teachers of lesser taught languages who do not have a wide range of materials at their disposal.


At the end of the course all participants will have

  • Learned how to create short audio/visual sequences using basic technical means such as a photocamera, a microphone and a computer
  • Experimented with various types of audiovisual material and discussed their use in the classroom
  • Created a teaching unit using audiovisual material of their own making (work in groups)
  • Acquired information on interactive media and their use for encouraging and supporting learners' autonomy

 

The course is run in the form of workshops with trainers operating as guides and councellers. In the first part of the course there will be a short methodological introduction and presentation of materials. Participants will then develop their projects working in groups. In the second part of the course there will be an introduction to film and video techniques after which participants will work in groups developing and finalizing their projects.


Participants will be encouraged to stay in touch with each other after the course exchanging new ideas and their experience with the techniques and material presented in the course. It will be possible to install a blog for further communication and exchange of ideas and material. Future meetings and cooperation through European or other projects will be encouraged.
 

Participants from all EU countries (except Cyprus) can receive a grant covering tuition, travel and lodging costs after applying to the EU LLP national agency of their country.

The deadline for the EU grant application is the 30th of April 2010.

 

You will find more information about the course on our website.