Tonight, we tried two very ‘fashionable’ tools for speaking
activities, Adobe Spark Video and Screencast-o-matic, which I enjoyed a lot.
I have watched a lot of Screencast-o-matic videos on the Net
but to be honest this is the first one I produced by myself. The production
experience was very pleasant. I tried to screen-cap PowerPoint slides and
explain a grammar item. It will be very useful for schools which adopt flipped
classroom. For those which are not yet ready, the videos can still act as a
resource for students to do revisions.
Being more impressed, I used Adobe Spark to produce a video
of myself reading aloud a poem. I enjoy using Adobe Spark very much simply
because of its super user-friendliness. Basically, I just need to prepare some
pictures and then I can start to make my video step-by-step. The steps are
really simple that I don’t even need to ‘learn’ how to use it, and the end
product is SO professional! One more thing I like it so much is that it has
lots of ready-to-use templates for users to choose from. These templates are
very useful to both teachers and students, especially in a primary school
context.
Teachers can use the ‘Teach a Lesson’ template to make their lessons more
fun and appealing to motivate students. Meanwhile, students can make use of the
‘Tell What Happened’ template to record a self-created story; or use the ‘Show
and Tell’ template to describe something to their friends; or very potentially,
they can use ‘Make Up My Own’ to produce a presentation, which is particularly
useful in any subjects not just English.
Last but not least, the tool works so
well on iPad which is advantageous both in the classroom setting and for
students to use at home. I am seriously thinking about doing a tryout speaking
project with Adobe Spark for the term paper!
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