Xu's Jing presentation was great! I found the program to be pedagogically sound with various audiovisual activities that could be employed in a class with recorded videos for online or hybrid classes. The fact that it's free really adds value to the program and makes it attractive to classrooms whose budgets are small and or nil.
Mandiy's lesson about Window's Video Player was really neat also! I remember using this program to make videos of my travels in Korea. I uploaded some of them to YouTube and here are the links if anyone is bored and want to see me rant: http://www.youtube.com/afsjesse1#p/a/u/1/gZrv4QdcvyU and http://www.youtube.com/afsjesse1#p/a/u/2/Loww0gWS1LE. I really like this program because it's easy to use and is great for authentic material creation for any ESL teacher. Plus, it requires minimal time in many cases, in my opinion, to make quick videos of pictures or class demonstrations.
I'm very excited to do this next project and to use many of the programs that we have learned like Podomatic, Hot Potatoes, etc.... I think the first web-task project that we did will greatly aid our creation of this next project.
Hey Jesse! I also enjoyed Jing very much. It will be very useful to use in the future, I even have already downloaded it to my computer. I am very impressed with its quality and being a free software!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you enjoyed my presentation. I agree, it makes it easy and quick to put together videos and/or pictures to use in the classroom. I will have to check out your work you included!
I loved watching your mountaintop experiences in Korea, Jesse! I especially enjoyed the waterfall falling sideways (eek!)and your comment about a watermelon someone left at the Buddha shrine. It reminded me of one time in Nigeria when a puppy showed up in the offering at church! Maybe Buddha wears a hat at that shrine because it's cold on top of the mountain! ;)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Jesse. Jing is a good tool for teaching. It's an excellent instruction providing tool. Students can enjoy tutorials using this tool.
ReplyDeleteMandy's presentation was also organised. I think she did well in her presentation.