How to engage learners online:

An #AusELT and Cambridge University Press video competition

To usher in the New Year, #AusELT and Cambridge University Press are running a video competition open to all #AusELT members.

Details

Participants make a video that we will post on our new #AusELT YouTube channel. The video needs to be focused on How to engage learners online. There are three ‘strands’ that can be covered:

• In the class (Activities that can be done inside the class)
• Outside of the class (Activities learners can do outside of the class but which are set up by the teacher)
• Learner autonomy (Activities that learners are in complete control of)

The video needs to show the activity and briefly discuss the rationale behind it. Materials can be shown in the video, but cannot be copyrighted materials; only self-designed materials. Website links can be given (for example Kahoot, Textivate etc.)

The video should be a narrative of the activity with instructions to set it up in class and how to manage it.

Prizes

3 copies of Interaction Online will be awarded by Cambridge University Press at the end of the competition.

Interaction Online by Lindsay Clandfield and Jill Hadfield is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to incorporate an aspect of online interaction in their language teaching.

Judging

Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Usefulness to the target audience
• Creativity and originality
• Practical applications for teachers
• Ease of preparation

Competition rules

• Entrants must be members of the #AusELT community, demonstrated through joining the #AusELT group on Facebook, contributions to #AusELT on Twitter, or otherwise demonstrating meeting the community membership guidelines.
• Send videos to #AusELT at auselt.videos@gmail.com. Videos will be distributed to committee to ensure rules have been followed and then uploaded to YouTube.
• The videos will then be judged according to the judging criteria (See above).
• There will be no correspondence after winners have been announced.
• Activities must be the participant’s own work. A copy of a published activity will be immediately disqualified.
• Participants may reproduce the activity elsewhere, but should credit #AusELT if the video is published or shared elsewhere.
• No students can be present in the video for privacy issues and we are too small to deal with consent forms.
• The video cannot exceed 5 minutes.
• Videos must be clearly labeled using the following naming convention: participantname_monthofsubmission for example gerharderasmus_January2018
• Quality should be sufficient to be viewed on YouTube. Submissions which are of poor quality will be returned. If you use a mobile, please turn the phone on its side when recording to avoid black stripes along the side of the video.
• No mention of any promotional materials.
• No textbooks or other published materials may be used or referenced.
• Activities that require printed material or is a novel way of working with a textbook should be highlighted with self-designed materials and the textbook cannot be mentioned.
• There is no limit on the number of submissions. Participants can submit as many videos as they are comfortable with.
• Closing date: 28th February.

Watch this introduction video where Gerhard explains and demonstrates a lesson idea.

Intellectual Property

#AusELT is the host of the competition and Cambridge University Press is the sponsor. All intellectual property remains with the person who produced the video and will not be published by any party without consent. We do, however, ask that should you publish elsewhere, that it is mentioned that the activity first appeared in the #AusELT and Cambridge University Press YouTube competition.

Please follow the YouTube channel as we will be posting more ELT related videos in months to come and might run another competition in the future if this one proves to be useful and fun for #AusELT members.

Photos taken from https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/5285506614 by @yearinthelifeof, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

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