Creating Videos

I have already said before that I love videos! I love to create, to edit and everything related to them. A tool that I've had contact with some time ago is Animoto. This time, I'm posting here a video I've created to ilustrate the contrast between Past Simple and Past Continuous. The only thing that gets in the way is the limited time we have: 30 seconds. If you want more, you have to pay for it. Because of that, I'm posting here another video I've created, this time using JayCut. This tool is a little more complicated than the other one. And by complicated I mean that it's more difficult to manage the pictures, the sounds, the effects etc. The result seems a little boring, but it's because I didn't find how to make the effects to appear on the video after it's published. But the result is very good, as well!

I think that a good way of using this 2 videos with my students would be , first, asking them to watch and to pay attention on the sequences of the events. The Animoto video would go fisrt, and then the JayCut video. After that, they would have to watch it again, paying attention on the structure of the sentences. The next step would be to complete the last sentence, each student would have to think of something to complete it. And on the last step they would have, in pairs, to create at least two sentences using both Tenses.

I don't know if this idea would work out, but as I said, it's just and idea. Maybe next year I will give it a try!!