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DIVERSE Conference 2009 and Post Conference Review
24th - 26th June 2009
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Keynote presentations

  • Carol Skyring
    • Visual communication: from Zoopraxiscope to YouTube
  • Obadiah Greenberg
    • Broadcast your university: YouTube and the global classroom
  • Jon Baggaley, Claus Knudsen
    • The video-conferencing haves and have-nots: an online conversation between Professor Jon Baggaley and Dr. Claus Knudsen

Masterclasses

Pedagogy and assessment


Tools and content oriented applications


Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability


People and technology: societal aspects

 

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The use of videoconference recordings database in academic writing classes

  • Alena Hradilova, Libor Stepanek: Masaryk University, Czech Republic

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Videoconferencing has been an important part of language teaching in the Language Department of Masaryk University, Czech Republic for more than 5 years.

All the participants of these videoconferencing sessions agreed to the making of recordings of most of the videoconferences that took place during the classes. These recordings were used for future reflection on students’ performance and planning the following VC frames. This way, we have managed to create a collection of over 70 videoconference sessions recordings which provides us with authentic material that can be adapted and used in classes as video based listening exercises and outside class as a source for individual learning.

The in class activities range from topic based listening (listen and answer questions/fill in gaps/true-false exercise type) through teaching materials to practice videoconferencing skills (look-at-the-video-and-analyse-what-went-wrong type of exercise), and to videoed lectures which the teacher present in the class can turn into interactive tasks and discussions. These are especially useful when the expert who originally provided the lecture is not available to do an online lecture in real time.

We would like to share our approach to using these types of real video based exercises in our courses of Academic Writing for PhD Students.