2nd Assignment..

This is just our first week and we are already moving very fast in starting the course.. The theme of the assignment is to create and design an interesting educational video.

Video making/editing is one of my hobbies, and I do enjoy doing so. Because I am a fan of Kpop (Korean pop) music, there has been a few videos that I made for fun. My youtube channel can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/user/dbsgdecXXX - tho I doubt any of you would be interested in any of the videos unless you are a Xiah Junsu fan (korean singer)... which I highly doubt. You can listen to his music tho, in my imeem playlist ^^

So when I read that for our second assignment, we are to do a video, I was excited and happy.

But that was short-lived, because the real deal of creating a video for educational purposes is greatly different than videos for entertainment purposes. The content, the design, the layout and the presentation style should be made to suit the interest of the young learners besides having to comply to the curriculum specifications.

I've had had some hard times in figuring what videos I would like to create. I wonder if any of you also feels the same way?

To trigger some ideas, I've had visited some of the teacher's online forums like: The ESL Cafe
where I view some of the videos that they share. Some had helped me in getting the ideas across, but I am sad to say, some are veryvery dissappointing. Some of the videos in teaching English nouns only shows a word slides of a noun in themes. For me, in order to teach English to young pupils, videos should be - colurful, enjoyful and should be accompanied with moving pictures/animations. Pupils definitely would learn better if they view something that can assist their understanding of the words!

Anyway, I finally decided to make a video about different types of occupations. Strangly enough, I didn't get the idea from the readings and research that I did, but the idea came to me when I watch the commercial for 'House' on the television. I think it would be great for me to create a video that would teach pupils about the occupations and what the people in those field do. I would like to create a video that would enable the teacher to manipulate the video to teach different topics, for example, the teacher might use the video to teach nouns(name of occupations) to a grade 1 pupils, and then, also use the video to teach 'Wh' questions (what,where,who) to the 3rd grade pupils.

For now, I just need to think of how I plan to create it.. I am still in the thinking process..
I wonder if any of you had already started or at least had a clear idea on what you are about to do.