LECTURE PLAN 1.

Subject :English Planning Modalities

Groups: FEF 1201/1202
Date: 27.04.2015
Teacher: Pusnei Irina.
Topic: WEB2.0 Tools for Video-Based Student Projects
Lesson type: lecture
Time: 80 min
Specific competences:
Linguistic competences-recognizing and applying subject metalanguage(PBL, skill, EFL, Web 2.tools,etc.)
Communicative competences- recepting and producing oral and written messages(listening, viewing, editing)
Cognitive competences-identifying, analyzing, synthesizing lecture material,(detecting core elements, creating their own videos)
Cultural competences- increasing students cross cultural awareness concerning the target language community
Social competences-learning to make decisions and share responsibilities while working in groups;
Digital competences-employing internet resources, web 2.0 tools in EFL teaching and learning.
Lecture objectives:
By the end of the lecture students must be able to:
O1-provide with at least one idea concerning the PBL(Project Based Learning) trend in EFL teaching;
O2-define the Video-Making concept;
O3- reveal the at lest 4 advantages of video-making while EFL teaching and learning;
O4-list the types of video-projects;
O5-identify tat least per 3 skills developed in each Video-Making stage;
O6- acknowledge at least 4 Web 2.0 tools useful to Video-Making;
O7-create at least one video project by means of Web 2.0 Tools;
O8-learn to apply Video-Making Projects in EFL teaching and to adjust them with the school curriculum requirements.

Stages of the lecture (Learning Activities)

I.

Resources

Strategies(meth
ods, techniques,
forms of
activities)

Subcompete
nces

Time

Blackboard,
chalk

class discussion
opinion sharing
Argumentation
Communicative
method
Whole class
work

O1

1min

EVOCATION

1.Organization
The teacher greets the students and creates the atmosphere. The pupils greet him back.
Calling the register.
2.Warm up and preparation
The teacher sets the lecture objectives. The students are referred to the following quote:
PBL increases long-term retention, improves problem-solving and collaboration, and
improves students attitude towards learning. The students are asked to share opinions
being helped by guiding questions like:
1.What is long-term retention and how can it be improved by means of PBL?
2. How can problem solving develop reflective and cognitive skills?
3.May PBL be motivating students learn? How

computer
projector

3-5 min

.
REALISATION OF MEANING
New Material presentation
a) The teacher introduces the PBL term delivering a shorts speech concerning its
history, benefits and application. Then the students are acquainted with the
concept of video making,
b) Before introducing them to the advantages of video-making they are given 1
min to think of 1-2 advantages up with their partner(s), and to share them with
the whole class.

O2

Computer,
project,

Lecture with

15-20 min

c) When presenting the types of video projects, and the stages of the videomaking process students are asked to listen, participate in short discussions
that will clarify the lecture content.
d) The teacher explains the Web 2.0 tools importance and actuality and introduces
each Web 2.0 tool separately pointing out distinctive features such as account
availability, options, advantages, shortcomings.
e) Pre-Viewing Tasks: students are asked to pay attention to video organization
and practicality in EFL teaching and learning.

Vide-making
Web 2.0 tool
1. Animoto[1]

2.Goanimate[
2]

3.Photopeach
[3]

blackboard

Handouts

Options

How to use

-enables users to use

pictures and video;
-up to 20min.video;
-easy to use;
-sharable(post, pin, tweet,
email)
-licensed music;
-HD quality;
-stunning styles;
-call-to- action button;
-unbranded videos.
-enables users to create
animated videos;
-easy to create;
14 days free trials;
-a wide variety of themes;
-enables school learners
make a video;
-sharable

-at the beginning of the school year students can use Animoto to introduce
Projector
themselves or their classmates;
- students can illustrate their own poetry using digital images they find on internet
or ones they take themselves;
blackboard
-can be used to present research information to the class;
-students can illustrate step-by- step instructions for procedure writing;
-can create a book trailer.

- easy to create: quickly

upload photos and create
slideshows;
-easily embedded on blog
or website to share it
worldwide;

- presenting students favourite room/house(real estate);

-travalogue pictures;
-world and travel;
-pets and animals;
-nature;
-comedy;

-teachers and students can use Goanimate to exercise higher order skills such as
creativity and critical thinking;
-students can visualize their favourite songs;
-student may create a story;
-students may develop a topic.

Discussion
Questioning
Opinion
Sharing
Argumentattion
Brainstorming
Pair
Work/Group
Work

Explanation,
Demonstration,
Example
Whole class
work

O3
O4
O5

20-25min
O4

4. Picovico[4]

5. Powtoon[5]

6. Stupefix[6]

-easily sharable via email,

IM, Facebook;
-can arrange photos;
-add music;
-comment function;
-quiz slides.
- contains the most
essentials to create a
beautiful video;
-includes a collection of
styles available only in
latest version of the app;
-easy to create;
-easy to share;
-built-in option to choose
video quality up to 108p..
-easy to create animated
videos;
-generates excitement and
motivation
in
any
classroom-no matter the
age of student;
- easy and interactive;
-a large variety of themes;
-can include uploaded
pictures;
-easy to export

-sports;
-exhibit pictures of students work.

-the earnest way to turn

photos, videos, music and
text into beautiful videos
that
tell
meaningful
stories;
-allow teachers to manage
up to 10n students for
free;
-easy to embed;
-allows users to drag and
drop pictures into a
desired sequence;
-allows you to use more
than one video clip within
the same video.

-students can create diverse video montages;

-students can create stories;
-students can create photo slides on their family holidays;
-students can develop interesting topics;
- students can create digital portfolios.
-students can create slides describing their adventures.

- students can create an advertisement of an object, film or a book that they have
just read;
-if students go to a field trip, they can take pictures and create a video using those
pictures;
-students can create videos on the thing they have done on holydays;
-the videos can be use for introducing school rules, families, what they like doing,
etc.

-teachers and students can create professional looking presentations;

-can create tutorials;
-create lesson plans;
-can create interesting animated stories.

Analysis

II.
III.

REFLEXION

Discussion

Copybooks,
While and Post Viewing
projector,
When presenting each Web 2.0 tool the teacher shows a video example that is later blackboars
discussed with students considering its practicality, skills, extension, assessment
criteria, etc.
For example:
1. Animoto Book Trailler:
a) practicality: can be used during literature and reading classes, to summarize the
content of a book, story
b) skills: cognitive, social, digital skills
c) extension: organizing an exhibition of the top popular book trailers
d) assessment criteria: creativity, accuracy, relevance, closeness to the original.

IV.
EXTENSION
Students are asked to work in groups. Each groups is required to choose a Web 2.0 tool, to
create a free account and to elaborate a video project based on textbook topics:
1. Group 1. ANIMOTO- Moldova My Love
2. Group 2. GoAnimate- The Dragonfly and the Bee
3. Group 3. PowToon-How to write a good essay
4. Group 4. STUPEFIX- Education through Film
After the video are created, the students are required to embed them on their blogs in order
to be publicly viewed.
Students are asked to share ideas on adjusting video-making projects in the school
curriculum requirements:
a) How often should this kind of projects be practiced(at the end of week, month,
unit, semester, school year.
b) Which might be the difficulties of these projects implementation?

15-20 min
Whole Class
Work

Group Work,
analysis,
synthesis,
skimming
picture design

O7

25-30 min
Computers,
Storyboard,
handouts
textbook

5-10 min
O8

V.
FEEDBACK
The students are referred to the lecture objectives in terms of assessing their
achievements. What is more, they get their exit slips to leave key words or short
messages concerning the acquainted material.
VI. ORGANIZATION