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One minute English - YouTube Channels for EFL teachers EP 06

In this video we will be showing you why we like One Minute English, a channel from Lexical Lab. Apart from using it for our own professional development as teachers, there are ideas to build a lesson around with B2/C1  learners too. Here's a link to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX7k... Enjoy! 

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Prediction games - Best practices for popup video quizzes EP 06

In this episode we look at how you can create an ESL prediction game in the interactive video quiz maker and what a finished video quiz looks like when you play it with students. As always, we also share a few methodology tips we have found helpful with these videos and prediction games. The video quiz we use in the demonstration can be found here: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/black-hole-filminute-1-minute-movie

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Filling in and correcting worksheets online

iSLCOLLECTIVE's beloved "Fill&Send" feature got a more intuitive design, which both teachers and students are going to find much easier to work with! In this video, we introduce the design and demonstrate how your students can fill in worksheets and send them back to you using the link they generate themselves. Enjoy! 

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Flipped Classroom Video Contest Winner Announcement

Time has finally come to announce the winner of our Flipped Classroom Video Contest! Thank you all for participating, we received plenty of amazing videos and quizzes, so our task was pretty hard! ;) 

In this video, we'll show you the winner (Kitti146), the second (KateNut) and third (marwatn) place as well as an honourable mention (mersonning)! 

Congratulations! 

You can access their quizzes if you click on these links: 

Kitti146 - Prepositions of place: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/prepositions-of-place-1

KateNut - Inside Out: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/inside-out-and-other-mix-ups

marwatn - Market Day: https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/market-day-flipped-classroom

(HM) mersonning - What am I doing? https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/what-am-i-doing-present-continuous-professor-merson

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How to Create Stop Motion Explainer Videos

In this video, Jo will show you how to up your flipped classroom game with stop motion explainer videos! The video introduces the "Stop Motion Studio" app, but there are many other similar editing tools out there. Did you become inspired to create such a video yourself? We can’t wait to see your work!

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How to Create Explainer Videos

Find out how you can create cool explainer videos for your students with Biteable.com, and how you can boost them with iSLCOLLECTIVE's video quiz questions! Launching your flipped classroom with such videos will make you the most up-to-date teacher on the field!

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** Flipped Classroom Video Contest **

Take part in our new contest, which focuses on flipped teaching and the flipped classroom! You don't know what that means? Watch the video and find out! ;) Create an original flipped video yourself, make it into a video quiz with our tools, and publish it on the iSLCollective website to win a valuable book set by Jamie Keddie! The deadline is June 1st, so hurry up! :)

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Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions - pt 5 Teacher wellbeing

We've come to the final part of Jo's short video series that deals with your online teaching worries. In this episode, we're looking at how you can avoid teaching burnout by setting strict office hours, creating a VLE (virtual learning environment, like Google Classroom or Edmodo), and using teaching resources, such as iSLCollective's video quizzes and worksheets! 

Download the webinar slides from this link: http://bit.ly/islcollectivewebinarslides

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Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions - pt 4 Online Testing and Feedback

In this part of Jo's series, we're going to look at how you can assess your students both effectively and efficiently. We're going to talk about various testing tools, the importance of ongoing assessment, and gamification. Don't miss the next episode, which is going to be the last in this series!

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Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions - pt 3 Skills Development Online

This short video series focuses on and deals with the issues raised during Jo’s Q&A webinar. You probably think that online lessons are for speaking practice only, but even that is hard to do with a bigger group. Fear no more, as now we’re showing tips and tricks to develop all the 4 skills online! Improve your students’ reading with shorter texts, their kistening with iSLCollective video quizzes, and their writing with peer feedback, i.e students comment on each other’s works! You can download the webinar slides from here: http://bit.ly/islcollectivewebinarslides

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Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions - pt 2 Student engagement

The second part of the "Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions" video series is out now! Do you find it hard to keep your students motivated and engaged throughout your online lessons? Try our tips and tricks (and various websites of course) mentioned in this video! Don't forget to come back for the next part!

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Your Online Teaching Worries with Solutions - pt 1 Device Issues

This short video series focuses on and deals with the issues raised during Jo's Q&A webinar. In the first part, we're looking at what you can do if your students are having problems with the websites or devices they're using. Check it out for practical solutions and stay tuned for the next part, which is Student management!

Download the slides from this link: https://bit.ly/islcollectivewebinarslides

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LIVE Q&A session about your online teaching worries!

What's troubling you about your online teaching so far? Join our Q&A session on April 17, 2020 and get your questions answered by Jo, our new teacher trainer, who will be doing webinars alongside Anna. This time only methodology questions, nothing software-related. Click here to sign up. (Max. 40 attendees. Be quick: first come first served). P.S. If you'd like to know more about Jo, here's her bio.

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IATEFL Budapest 2019: Workshop About How To Teach With Videos

Watch iSLCollective.com teacher trainer Anna Csíky's wonderful workshop at IATEFL Budapest 2019 (click on the link, not the photo) and get a bunch of handy ideas about how to teacher English better using videos. She demos how to create an ESL / EFL popup video quiz in 15 minutes from any Youtube or Vimeo video, giving you methodology tips about each question type. There is a short film here that you could use in your lessons next week with all levels (no conversation). Plus see the Casino play mode in action. Enjoy!

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ESLBrains.com Tips About Creating Interactive Video Quizzes

Our friends at ESLBrains.com, a site with hundred of quality lesson plans for Youtube videos, keep churning out great content. This time they penned a short piece about how to create interactive video quizzes.

First, they lay their case that we should be moving forward with the new trends and focus more on videos in our classes. They argue that our primary mode of consuming information is no longer the written text but the moving image. Also, videos are authentic and motivating. But maybe you already know that, and you already bring your Youtube video to class on a regular basis.

So what’s next for you to take video-based teaching to the next level?

Stan and Justa think it’s making students’ connect with the videos in an interactive way. Check out their post and learn about their best practices through concrete lesson examples.

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NEW:  Zero gap in gapfill questions

We have a brand new feature: the zero gap. It's great for activities like articles vs zero article (=a missing article, for example for general concepts: e.g. chocolate and NOT: the chocolate); the alternative omission of a relative clause (e.g. the cat [that] I saw) or personal pronoun (He ate and [he] slept).

In the quiz students just hit ENTER to submit a "zero" answer, e.g. ___ chocolate is sweet (no article needed). You can create a zero gap in the quiz maker by clicking on a space before a word in a gapfill type question.

Watch Jen Brummer demo the zero gap to you in 2 minutes.