Cotech task 3.

Introduction

The purpose of this common report is to survey three educational videos: “Cooking Lesson”, “Computer Parts” and “How to Make Muffins” and to analyze these videos considering three aspects: educational dimensions, technical dimensions and dimensions concerning “English as a second language”.
 

 

„Cooking Lesson“

The main educational goal for this step-by-step video is to learn vocabulary realated to cooking and kitchen: a pancake, a bowl, a pan, an egg, milk, a whisk, salt, sugar, flour, oil, to crack, to mix, to add, to put,  to preheat, dough, to pour, to cook, to serve, a salad, a cucamber, a tomato, a  small cabbage, a knife, to cut. Also through this video pupils can learn how to make pancakes and salad. By showing pictures of the kitchen tools with the proper names and phonetic symbols pupils are able to connect words with meanings and increase their learning.  

In this video, like in other cooking videos, the children can be both active and passive, it depends on the teacher. For example if pupils are in the kitchen, they can use the video as the recipe and they will be active. Also the while-watching activity can be activating. If the students just sit in the classroom and watch the video, then students will be passive.

The educational purposes were  approached by showing how to make pancakes and salad, what pupils need for that. Also pronunciation, spelling and phonetic symbols were added.

The techincal quality of the video was great. This video had better lighting than the others I  have seen, and the sound was really good. The focus was on the ingredients not on the people, so everyone can clearly see what to do. As subtitles, they were a little bit big and they took away a big part of the screen and they easily become the focus point.

 

This video is suitable in the learning phase, where students learn the new thing, beacuse the new words are introduced in this video.

There were any misuse of English.  The pronunciation and the spelling were correct.

I think that this video is  suitable for younger pupils. Maybe I would have added some  music. I am a little bit sad beacuse there was no music and there was no humour.

„Computer parts“

Educational  dimensions of the video:

The main educational goal for this video is to learn vocabulary realated to computers: a monitor, a screen, a mouse, a keyboard, a speaker, a hard disk drive, a microprocessor, a  motherboard. Also this video teaches where you should go when something is wrong with your computer. This is why this video is suitable in the learning phase, where students starts to learn new words.

The educational purposes were approached by showing the parts of a computer and describing what role the parts have and how these parts work. Also pupils can hear the pronunciation and see the spelling of words. 

When using this video pupils have passive role, but the pupils´ role depends also on the teacher. If the while-watching activity is activating then pupils can be active.

Technical dimensions of the video:

Technically there was one problem- the sound of this video was very quiet, it was almost impossible to hear what the puppet was saying. Also there should have been more action, and the ending was odd -  "there will be a test". This is not a good way to end an educational video.

Dimensions conscerning "English as a second language":

The use of English in this video was excellent. It was not only a informative use of the language, it was also chatty and  natural. But in some places there was too much speaking about one part of computer. There was no misuse- the pronunciation and spelling were correct. 

In this video a puppet was the one with computer problems and this made the context in this video a bit more fun. But at the same time it makes the target group a little bit confusing, beacause the vocabulary was too difficult for younger pupils,  but the puppet was too childish for older pupils.

The use of English in this video was excellent. There was no misuse. It was not only a informative use of the language, it was also chatty and  natural. But in some places there was too much speaking about one part of computer.

Technically there was one problem- the sound of this video was very quiet, it was almost impossible to hear what the puppet was saying. There should have been more action, and the ending was odd -  there will be a test. This is not a good way to end an educational video.

 The background was plain and simple so that the computer parts were in focus.

 „How to make muffins“

 

The educational goal for this video is to teach children the proper names for the kitchen tools and how to make muffins.  Pupils can learn words like icing sugar, food colours, sugar, flour,  water, baking powder, muffins, margarine, milk, eggs and different verbs. 

The goal was approached by introducing the ingredients for the children and  using a step-by-step video to make them able to do it themselves. Also pupils can hear the pronunciation and see the spelling of ingredients were added.

Like in other videos the activity level of pupils depends on the teacher. 

The video was good, but there should have been more pictures and some music playing on the background. Maybe I would have added some  music and phonetic sympols. 

I think that this video is suitable in the learning phase, where students learn the new thing.

The techincal quality of the video was satisfying, spelling was mostly correct, but the pronunciation was a little strange. There was some misuses of  English. For example the pronunciation and selling (food colours not food  colouring)

The sound disappers sometimes, so it was hard to follow. 

In the beginning of the video they told us, and  showed us, the list of ingredients. This will gives the names, and the spelling of each ingredient. Here we would have shown a  picture of the ingredient at the same time, so one could connect the name to  something concrete. 

This video is  suitable for older pupils, beacus there were no text to read, only listening. The people in this video talked really slowly. Pupils that this video is meant for would handle  another tempo.