Hello there – A bit of news for you: As you may or may not know, I am an associate trainer at Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE) in the UK. Every July, I offer a two-week…
Thanks to all you who joined me for the Videotelling launch webinar. If you couldn’t make it, here is a excerpt in which my father made a guest appearance and told us (or ‘videotold’ us)…
The Butcher in question is Danny Butcher, a London-based artist-illustrator that I was lucky enough to collaborate with on Videotelling. I met Danny as a result of a Google image search. It was 2011 and…
“Developing Teacher Talk” is the title of a presentation that I gave at IATEFL 2017 in Glasgow earlier this month. You can watch the session here. After the session, I became aware of a bit…
Philip Kerr is a teacher trainer and materials writer, whose books include the coursebook series, Straightforward (Macmillan), and the methodology handbook, Translation and Own-Language Activities (Cambridge University Press). He blogs about technology and language learning…
August 2016 “See that Jamie Keddie. I contributed to his ‘Videotelling’ crowdfunding campaign and since then, I haven’t heard a thing!” During the months of November and December last year, I ran a crowdfunding campaign…
There’s a new Videotelling activity on Lessonstream called a Killer Product. *** You can see you activity here *** The activity is based around the story of Lorenzo Maggiore – a Santa Monica artist and the…
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a webinar in association with NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) on the topic: Video and Storytelling The webinar was recorded and you can see it here You…
Above, Sena and below, Ömer describe their favourite music videos. The students are from Yeditepe University, Istanbul and created these videos as part of a project which was organised by their teacher, Betül Özer. In…
This is the first part of a talk that I gave at IATEFL Manchester. The talk was titled: Videocameras in the hands of learners. I have created a play list with all five parts and…