I learned about the nascent ESLvideo.com at the recent CATESOL Regional Conference on Oct. 17th. Ryan Detwiler, who is based in Escondido and teaches an evening ESL class at Miramar College, used his technical know-how to create this website, where ESL teachers can create/edit YouTube-based quizzes, generate a URL to send to their students, and view results.
It seems the site already has video quizzes for all proficiency levels and for all language points. Anyone visiting the site can click on the "Quizzes" tab to look for an activity by the categories.
It also seems that the site offers a lot of potential to engage learners in active learning. For example, a teacher can create a grammar quiz based on a music video clip and then have students do the quiz first, listen to the song to verify/adjust their answers, and then click on "See how you did."
Free registration is required of any teacher wishing to create their quizzes on the site. The teacher also needs to know how to grab the embed code and the thumbnail image from YouTube web page, two very straightforward steps to accomplish. After creating a video-based quiz, the teacher can go through "My Account" to view the quiz and get its URL to send to her students, if so desired.
When students send the results to their teacher, an optional "Class ID" would make it easy to organize the score area in the teacher account.
Students wishing to "Join a Class" must have an email address. They should not be encouraged to register because that would enable them to create quizzes, something that some fear may get out of hand.
Teachers using this site have reported playing this kind of videos as draws at strategic times such as at the beginning of the class or right after a break.
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