David Wood

Chikushijogakuen

About

Professor David Wood is a veteran JALT presenter. He was JALT's representative to TESOL in the USA. He founded the first National Special Interest Group. He has served as JALT national liaison officer. His specialties include writing textbooks for Sony Pictures, using photos as teaching materials and more recently helping students create their own videos to learn how to explain Japanese life and culture in English. He has been using computers in education since 1978. The only non-Japanese to chair his English department in Fukuoka, he got Japanese Proficiency Level 1 over 30 years ago.

Sessions

Presentation Making Student Videos more

Everyone has access to mobile phone video-shooting. To turn this into effective language-learning material production and utilization requires a set of basic technological skills. This presentation shows how to devise, take, edit and utilize videos to develop students' active use of English. Devising scenarios to generate spontaneous, communicatively effective and efficient English can be achieved through teacher-to-student and autonomous student-to-student co-operation. This helps activate the passive knowledge gained through high school by motivating students to employ technology to communicate about each other’s immediate knowledge and experience (Stockwell and Reinders, 2019). A key element is building student co-operation and confidence in interacting spontaneously. The necessary preparation for achieving a productive atmosphere will be explained with samples of the videos produced at locations in and around their campus. Students become more proficient with proper editing skills as well as captioning with AI or self-captioning to preserve valuable English interactions and enrich their learning experience. Examples include visits to local shrines and museums and interviews at their school’s employment and international centers. The choice can be customized to each teacher’s individual circumstances but the template is universal. Participants are encouraged to interact in a continuous question and answer format.

David Wood