Dena’s Blog

Like podcasting, I had been introduced to Teacher Tube through my online teaching job. I found a couple of neat videos related to teaching English. There weren’t a whole lot of videos related to poetry and literature, though, and I found that somewhat surprising. I am thinking that next semester I can use my video camera and Windows Movie Maker to have students create videos of their own that teach literary terms and similar concepts, particularly those that are found on the Georgia High School Graduation Test. I think they will be able to handle a relatively simple video, and part of their assignment will be to critique videos created by other students. That way they get exposed to more of the concepts, and maybe because it’s a technology-related activity, they might not realize they’re learning. Ha!

When I did a search on You Tube with “English teaching” as my search term, I came up with many videos that were related to teaching English to speakers of other languages. Then I tried “literature teaching,” and that gave me a few more results, two of which I have included above. I posted the one about Maya Angelou because I think students might more easily relate to poetry if they can see poets as “real people” and not just a bunch of words in a textbook (or website).