Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard

Hi folks

I promised you a second newsletter this month as I missed out April. So here it is and it has some great new stuff. Nearly all this month's tools tare for ALL TEACHERS of any subject and I think you will find them really useful. The only exception is LINGRO which is for ALL Language teachers

1) ScoopIt

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/scoopIt/index.html

ScoopIt allows you to grab content from the web and from tweets and create a newsletter/newsaper from it. It is great for project work and very clever the way it works. You choose the topic and the key words and ScoopIT goes off and finds you the stuff and the links and puts it all in a list. You then decide if you want to add it to your newsletter or not. Lots of teachers are using it on the web. Really worth looking at. I think you will be quite surprised by how it works.

2) PresentMe

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/presentMe/index.html

I love this tool. Upload your PowerPoint Presentation and then record yourself doing the presentation and even include your webcam. Then anyone can access it on the internet and watch and listen to you presenting. Great for your students to get them practicing their presentations. Great for language teachers as we can get your students to make presentations and practice their language. Amazingly the tool is free too.


3) Lingro

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/lingro/index.html

This set of videos has already had about 5000 plays this month!! If you haven't seen this and you are teaching languages then you have to see it to believe it. Choose a website you want to read, place it into Lingro and then the whole site becomes clickable and you can find the meanings of any word on the site with just a click of a button. So if you are reading El Pais or Le Monde or The Times, then you can make any of the text clickable and it will immediately bring up a dictionary and tell you the meaning of the word. It is fabulous and I have been using it all this month. Not only that but it keeps a record of all the words you clicked on and even creates games to practice and work with the words!!! You can choose from a variety of dictionaries too.

4) MailVu

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/mailVu/index.html

One of the most popular tools on my website. This new set of videos goes through the tool in more detail and then explains some of the work I have been doing with this tool. MailVu allows you to send Webcam messages and can be used for lots of different things. It works with just 2 button clicks and one more to send the videos. It is fabulous. In these videos I go into more detail about how I have used the tool and I think it will give you some great ideas. We have been testing them at the University of Warwick this week.



Announcement

I have put a donate button on my site. Don't worry I am not going to start charging. I originally set the site up to be free for 10 years and we still have another 6 years to go ( the site started in June 2007) but I want to sponsor some teachers to come to IATEFL next year. I was impressed by some of the teachers I met from Cuba, Palestina, Romania ( among other places) and so I want TTV.com to sponsor a teacher who wouldn't normally be able to afford to come to the UK to experience IATEFL. I think it goes well with the philosophy of the site. I have only had 2 donations so far, so please if you can spare $5 or a bit more then please donate to the site.

I am going to commit myself to helping at least one teacher to come over for IATEFL in Glasgow next year, this is regardless of how much money I raise from donations. I have set up the donate button with Pay Pal. So please help if you can. You can see the button on the right hand side of the site.

That's it folks. I hope you found some of the videos useful. Please tell people about the site. Don't forget you can follow me on twitter at russell1955.

Big thanks

Russell