Introduction

This online guide has been designed to show you that there are many different ways of integrating video to support and deliver language learning in the classroom. We have included lots of examples to help demonstrate this – both for video newcomers as well as for experienced video educators.

All our examples have been tested in the classroom to ensure that they can be easily integrated into normal teaching tasks and at the same time address a variety of different language and technical levels. The equipment you are likely to need is usually readily available at school and you really don’t need to have a great deal of technical experience to get started. All the examples we use are designed so that much of the project work can be done outside of school time or set as homework.

Our camera overview gives you a framework of ideas to help you get started and support your video language skills development. You will find examples for all levels but we suggest you start with the simpler exercises and build up your skills gradually.

We hope that you and your students will enjoy working through our ideas and we would be happy to receive your feedback and contributions. You will find a contact form on our DIVIS web. Please contact us if you have any questions or problems or comments.