Useful video resources for ELT

Free Technology for Teachers is a great website that recommends 47 sites for finding video content. 

Here are some interesting video websites people recommended at Sync In:

 Vimeo: 'An amazing alternative to Youtube which provides you high-quality videos with perfect image and sound. You have a variety of searching options for nearly every subject. There is also a tutorial section (called Video school )where you can find instructions of how to create and film your own video either for educational or non-educational purposes. For educational purposes, students can be assigned a task of making a film and at the end of the process, a prize like Oscar can be given .'

1. CNN Student News

'This website is an amazing website that provides a varity of authentic materials, the latest news, and up-to-date information from different parts of the world.  You can use it to know what's happening in your country. It has many categories, such as Entertainment, Sports,and Technology.  You can download daily podcast.  Some of the videos have subtitles,  They also provide transcripts.  The teachers can use the transcripts to explain something important for students to learn.  Students can use it to know the latest news about their favourite celebrities.'

2. The Week in Rap 

'The Week in Rap is a weekly summary of news headlines in the form of a short rap video.  It provides lyrics, so students can read, listen and watch the video at the same time.   You can suscribe to the Week in Rap.  You can share the video with others.  You can leave comments which are good for writing.  You can also embed the episode in your blog or in your website.'

'http://freevideolectures.com/ provides a content for English learners. While they are wathcing the lectures of a certain area, they get to know the vocabulary including some terminology related to the subject.  A site with video lectures in various subjects.A useful site to find materials for CLIL and EAP teaching contexts. Good collection of video courses.

http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/index.php is a site for children to learn about the world while learning English at the same time. Differnt topics such as food chain, and all kinds of fish, are provided and vivid colorful piactures and slow audio explanations will attract the kids to learn.' 

' 1Academic Earth is a birllian website. It offers online courses from the world top scholars. Learners can choose the video according to their interest. They can download the transcripts, blackboard lecture notes, mp3 and video. Also, they can get the information of the course, the course book and some recommended readings.

 2 Englishcentral : a great website to practice speaking. It provides authentic videos with subtitles. Learners can record their own sounds and compare to the original one and get feedback. By comparing, they can concentrate on the weak pronunciation and see the expert help video and make more practice. '

In my  our group, we have chosen 

schooltube :a site that allows students to view and share their videos with others in their own channel (choose who you want to network with). Students can take control of their learning by creating or watching videos.

ted: the site that gives teachers the opportunity to learn from the experts on different fields and get updated information on what is going on in the world of technology, entertainment, business, science, design etc.