Barbara Dieu

The exchange programs are a fantastic way to get to know a little bit of the host country and culture. I was an exchange student in the US some eons ago :-)

I am glad you enjoyed your stay - you should plan another visit to a different city and state maybe.

How do you currently use video in your teaching, or how have you seen it used? You might wish to dicuss your objectives, contraints and priorities. 

Hello,

I teach English as a Foreign Language to teenagers (middle/high school) at the Franco-Brazilian school in São Paulo. I have used video in my classes in different ways (intensive and extensive viewing, individual and collective production)

Intensive Viewing (short snippets - maximum 4 minutes) as

• an ice-breaker leading to a theme I want to introduce or a basis for discussion on a theme  (The Meatrix for instance, for organic x processed food, Heroes - sts later work on their own hero story - see below
• a trigger for questions to practise oral skills 
• listening comprehension for at theme, vocabulary and grammar points I want to focus on (Creative Commons)
•  (add them to Moodle for stds to check at home and save classroom time)
• subtitling and translation exercises (use Universal Subtitles, Dotsub or YouTube)

Extensive Viewing (films)

• to complement a book we have been reading (compare and contrast)
• to analyse main themes and how they have been depicted (technique)

Thank you, Edward. Librarian Chick has compiled an exhaustive list!
However, although many of them may be free , they are not open as they just allow viewing and do not permit revision, remix or redistribution.

She does point to a number of Open Source and Open Courseware links.

Hello there,

Formally, I've been an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher at a secondary Franco-Brazilian lycee in Sao Paulo for many years. Outside this framework and online as an independent educator, I've become increasingly interested and involved in the open movement in education. I am a (slow) contributor to Wikimedia projects (Commons and Wikipedia), Wikieducator, Merlot and a member of the incipient Brazilian OER community.

Looking forward to the discussions around OERu.

Following up on Ivan Herman, whose name I suggested in the Elluminate chat area a week ago. Here is the link to the slides "How does the Semantic WEB work?" he presented at a talk at the “Semantic Café” event in São Paulo, Brazil, organized by W3C Brazil Office on 15^thOctober, 2010.

If you scroll down his page there are a number of other presentations he made on the Semantic Web.