Lesson with a Video Tutorial

September Second Post-Lesson with a Video Tutorial

I have planned a lesson with a Video tutorial. I am planning this revision lesson with a video tutorial on tenses. I have already finished teaching the tenses. I have given lots of activities to give hand on practice. 

Many of my children could do the given activities well. But there are always a group of children who can learn with difficulties. If I reteach this topic again, children who already knows will be restless since they know. So to engage whole class with just one lesson, I have to come up with something catchy things. This is when I came up with this video tutorial.

I will let my children watch this video first. Then, I will let them get ready with their notebook. .They are going to watch the video for the second time and take notes of words they could grab from the tutorial. 

Next, they are going to watch the video for the the third time and do the activities together with the tutorial.

Finally, watch the video once again and do their own correction. 

*** This is my plan for my upcoming class. I will write my reflection after carrying out the lesson in my next blog.

Smart Phone as my monitoring tool

Smart Phone as my monitoring tool

This time I have come up with use of my smart phone as a monitoring tool. I taught my usual topic on the day. We had a meeting before I could complete my activity in the class. Engaging higher class students was not possible since they were also given enough activity to stay engaged until their teacher comes out from the meeting.

So, I gave my children to do their activity in groups. They will present their group activity in my absence. They can present their group work by coming in front of the smart phone I kept in recording mode. I was super excited to see what children must be doing in front of the camera.

I informed them that my smart phone will be acting as their teacher. It will record everything they do until I am back from the meeting. I told them to be good children in the class especially when their teacher is not there with them in the class.

Eagerly waiting while I was installing the camera for the recording

The video below is what my children were doing when I was away in the meeting. I edited few clips in between using my little knowledge of camtasia software. I loved my children more after watching the recording because they can maintain their discipline by themselves.  And I am happy with myself for coming up with the idea of using phone as monitoring tool. It helps us in emergency and maintain 

our children well in the class in our absence.

                                          Video recording while I was attending the meeting