Bringing Online Video into the Classroom

Short, practical guides to understanding and implementing new developments in teaching

A practical guide exploring principles, techniques and ideas for teaching English with video, equipping you to use video creatively in your classroom.

Written for teachers of young learners and teenagers, teacher trainers and materials designers,Bringing online video into the classroom explores principles, techniques and practical ideas for teaching English with video. Includes suggestions for using and creating online video in the language classroom.

• Shows you how to find, display, create and organize online videos
• 'Try this' feature provides over 150 innovative and intriguing interactive activities
• Makes reference to over 80 online videos to illustrate ideas
• Provides practical ideas for incorporating video-recording devices into the classroom
• Introduces teachers to issues of copyright and internet safety
• Contains eight Appendices of annotated online resources for reference

The book covers topics such as the components of video hardware and software, finding, selecting and organizing videos, using video in the classroom, and incorporating video-recording devices into the classroom. It includes useful information on copyright and internet safety, as well as a glossary and appendices with online resources for refererence.

The 'Try this' feature provides over 150 innovative interactive activities and there are references to over 80 online videos to illustrate ideas, helping you put the ideas in the book into practice.

This book is part of Into the classroom, a series of short, practical guides that help teachers of learners aged 6-16 to make sense of new teaching tools, techniques, and educational policy, with ideas for implementing them in their classroom.

Jamie Keddie is a well-known teacher, teacher trainer, storyteller, and international conference presenter. He is the creator of Lessonstream, an online resource site for teachers which explores possibilities for visual material in the classroom. He is also the author of Images in the Resource Books for Teachers series. Downloadable resources for Bringing Online Video into the Classroom are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/itc