Take a look at this compilation of in 2015s challenge-winning videos to get some inspiration for this years video contest.

The
9th annual vocabulary video challenge hosted by The New York Times Learning Network is underway. The difficulty asks middle school and high school students to produce fifteen 2nd videos about any of the nearly 2400 words on
The New York Times Learning Networks Word of the Day list ( link opens a PDF). In their videos students need to effectively pronounce their chosen words then supply definitions of their chosen words..

Even if your trainees dont enter their videos into the contest, creating vocabulary videos can be a fantastic learning activity for students. The tools that I d use for making videos for this contest consist of ChatterPix, Adobe Spark, and WeVideo. Heres my introduction of how kids can utilize ChatterPix to create brief videos.

The New York Times Learning Network provides this one page guide ( link opens a PDF) for teachers to show students who desire to take part in the vocabulary challenge..
Videos created for the vocabulary obstacle have to be uploaded to YouTube and the link to the video has actually to be consisted of in the submission type discovered on the Vocabulary Challenge website. Heres my introduction of settings to know when submitting to YouTube.

Videos created for the vocabulary difficulty have to be published to YouTube and the link to the video has actually to be consisted of in the submission kind discovered on the Vocabulary Challenge site. Even if your students dont enter their videos into the contest, developing vocabulary videos can be a fantastic learning activity for students. Heres my summary of how kids can use ChatterPix to produce short videos.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for publishing the suggestion about this contest on his blog recently..

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