Task 11: Get Your Students Talking About a Text

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Task 11: Get your students talking about a text?

In this task you create a video questionnaire based around a text. The text could be one from the your course book or it could be from another book, magazine of from the internet somewhere. After creating the questions you send a link to the questionnaire to your students and they read the text and use their webcam on their computer to answer your questions.

The answers are all recorded directly into the Intervue.me website, so students don’t need to download or upload anything and they don’t need to register on the site. They can watch their own video recordings and each others’ and re-record their answers until they are happy with them. This encourages them not only to read the text and get some speaking practice, but it also gets students watching and listening to their own speaking and encourages a bit of self reflection and attention to accuracy.

Before you create your own video questionnaire you can look at this one I created based around the story of the ant and the grasshopper: http://intervue.me/i/429 Here’s how to get started. Choose a text that you want your students to read. This could be an online text, one from a magazine, short story or even a text from your course book.

Write some questions about the text. I prefer open questions which draw on the students own impressions and understanding of the text rather than ones that they either get right or wrong, but the choice is up to you.

Now go to: http://intervue.me/ and click on ‘Sign up’. You need to give a valid email address and create your own username and password and agree to the ‘Terms of Service’. Then click on ‘Create Account’.

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You will receive an email at the address you used and you click the link in it to activate your account. The link should take you in to your new account. If you want to you can click on ‘My Profile’ and then edit your profile by adding information and an image of yourself.

To create your first set of questions, click on ‘Create New’.

You can then decide on the levels of privacy the questionnaire has. I would advise using the settings you can see below.

I have chose: ‘Exposed’ - so that students can see each others responses, ‘Unlisted’ - so that only your students will see the questionnaire and it won’t be public, ‘Anonymous’ - so that your students don’t have to register (They won’t be able misbehave because you’ll be able to see and hear who they are). I have comments disabled, so they won’t be able to comment on each others’ videos and lastly I’ve ticked the box to get a daily email about any new video responses that are posted.

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Once you have selected your settings, click on ‘Continue’. On the next screen click on ‘Edit title’ and you will be able to give the questionnaire a title and a description.

Use the title of the text for the questionnaire title as this will make it easier to find later, then give it a description and click on ‘Save’.

Then click on ‘Start adding questions?’ As well as the actual question itself, you can also add additional prompts for each question in the field below.

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When you have finished your question, click on ‘Add’. You can then repeat this process and add more questions.

Once you have finished adding questions you just need to decide how you will share your questionnaire with your students. If you click on share you can configure Intervue.me to post a link to your Twitter profile. Personally, I prefer to copy and paste the url of the questionnaire into an email or a web page to share it with my students.

Here you can see my own questionnaire: http://intervue.me/i/429 it’s based around the story of the ant and the grasshopper: http://www.longlongtimeago.com/ llta_fables_antgrasshopper.html Follow up Write about this task in your Penzu journal. Record your first impressions of the tool and what you think its strengths and weaknesses are. © Nik Peachey

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Create another questionnaire for your students based around either a video or a number of discussion topics you would like to explore.

Try to think of other ways you could use the tool.

Read this blog article to find other ways of using Intervue.me: Create Video Questionnaires http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2011/04/create-video-questionnaires.html

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