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Greetings Members of the VDM Community,
Video and Digital Media is looking forward to reinvigorating
our IS in 2015–2016 by having both educators and students focus on a
more active approach toward video and multimedia. This year, the
emphasis will be placed on all parties creating their own films, audio
clips, and other media. In order to achieve this redirection,
InterSections between VDM and ESP, and EFL and MW are being created to
spotlight such topics as building content for ESP courses, using
traditional filming technology as well as smart technology to allow EFL
teachers to implement student-generated media within their classrooms,
and creating the best lesson plans and materials to help guide students
in using media creation technology in the classroom.
VDMIS initially was created to help educators get the most out
of using video material within the classroom. With modern technology,
video and audio materials have become digitized to the point where there
is now some overlap with computer-assisted language learning. VDMIS
wants to move forward and create a further distinction between itself
and CALL by stressing how students and teachers can manipulate current
technology to become makers and producers, not merely users.
I, personally, invite you all to challenge yourselves and your
students in creating exciting, target language filled media that
students, family, and colleagues will cherish.
Scott Duarte,
VDMIS Chair
Scott
Duarte has been teaching a course entitled English Through
Viewing and Producing Films since shortly after arriving at the
University of Delaware in 2012. Prior to that, his students produced
audio and video media projects at Michigan State University, Kansai
Gaidai University in Japan, and in high schools in New York City and
Seoul, South Korea. He has also conducted teacher-training workshops in
India and the Middle East through the U.S. State Department English
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