3rd March 2020

Videotutorials general index (under construction)

This is a comprehensive index of all the videotutorials available at present and the ones that I would like to make in the future, depending on the time available to me —which is very limited nowadays, what with learning how to do the paperwork required by the new education laws which the Spanish government passes every few years (just today they passed a new one!) and having a timetable overloaded with lessons due to the economic crisis that started in 2008 and fortunately is already over according to official sources.

I am designing these activities, roughly based on flipped classroom methodology, with three types of students in mind: those with special needs (the A1.1 videoclips are aimed at them); those who do not want to work because they are too far behind what should be the average level of competence in their class and who find it impossible to learn English or to pass exams, so they have given up trying; and those who need more repetitions of very basic grammar theory, phonetics, etc. in small, digestible chunks they can understand easily rather than a lengthier explanation aimed at solving doubts of more advanced students.

With a bit of luck these materials might also help students who have trouble with written information due to dyslexia; I hope listening to the explanations several times with a little graphic support might be useful for them as well.

If you want to use these materials with your students, you have two options: download the exercise pages and the videoclip included in each of them and make your own collection of videotutorials suited to your students' needs (including more or different exercises which you can do in your own way), and then using them from the hard disk in your classroom computer (which I recommend, because you will not depend on an Internet connection), or simply to create a personalised index in your own website, such as the two I am using for my students this term, with a list of links to the videotutorials that you want your students to be able to use, in the order you decide will work best for them.

As it takes me several hours to make each videotutorial, if you do use them and you or your students find them useful, I would appreciate a word of thanks so that I feel motivated to continue with this task in the future.