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Watch and enjoy.

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Hat tip to Graham via twitter. First the article about Crazy English which I’ve heard about before. 20,000 people in class, guess it puts it in perspective when I complain about having 30 students in a class that should only have 20.

every day, in a clearing on campus, he read English exercises, texts and books out loud. The effect was magic. In the TEM4 exam he attended four months later Li Yang finished all the questions within 50 minutes and won the second highest mark in his college.

This success inspired Li Yang. He summarized his experience and gradually forged a unique method of English study that consists of listening, reading, speaking, writing and translating, and named it Crazy English. This is an effective way of improving English pronunciation, speaking, listening and oral translation.
...After his graduation in 1990 Li Yang got a job at the Northwest Electronic Equipment Institute in Xi’an in Shaanxi Province. He went on with his Crazy English by reading English on the way to and from his office, and standing on top of the office building every morning shouting out English

...Vexed at the thought of over 300 million Chinese people still studying English dumb and mute, Li Yang quit his job in 1994 and founded the Li Yang Cliz English Promotion Studio. In the past years his Crazy English has been accepted by 20 million people in over 100 cities in China, and inspired millions of people in their study of English..

Now the video - 20,000 people doing Crazy English. Crazy is correct!

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This is freakin’ funny! Kickin’ it in 금촌 - Music video made by 3 foreigners in a small town in Korea - outstanding! I laughed a lot.

hat tip to shooting words and socius. Lyrics available here. I’ll probably show this to some students this week.

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This is hilarious!

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Not exactly PC but funny…

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Feb 7, 2008 at 07:40 AM
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Hat tip to Alex Case. This video is really funny.

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In January I talked briefly about bubbleply. I am now using it after having rediscovered it. This semester I am teaching a course titled “Teaching English through the Internet” to English Education Majors. I originally thought the course was going to be internet oriented and general skills but just before the semester started found out that it was for the English Education department. I have since taken a new approach on my course.

I now introduce various web sites and resources to the students and have them use the sites. This is then followed up by a brief discussion about how they could be used in language education as well as some of the pedegogy behind my suggestions or usage. I have told the students that many of the sites introduced in the class will be oriented to adults since they are adults and I do not (re: never) teach children. I am aware that most of my students, teachers in training, will be teaching in public schools so I do try to find sites that can be used at all levels from grade school up to high school.

Anyhow on Wednesdays class this coming week we will be looking at bubblely which I feel has many different potential approaches in the classroom. Bubbleply takes a youtube video and allows you to add a variety of speech, thought, narration, or subtitle bubbles to it. clearly this gives the teacher opportunites to annotate a video, add English subtitles to aid in listening comprehension, add thought bubbles for comedy or even have students find a video of their own to bubblply for task based English use. My students will be finding their own youtube video to bubbleply and then adding it to their class blogs.

Enjoy the sample I prepared for them to watch on Wedesday. You can watch the original YouTube video here or just turn off the bubbles on the bubbleply player if you want.

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One of my students blogged this video on her blog and I thought I’d share with you. It’s amusing.

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May 15 is Teachers Day in Korea. My university had the day off and honestly I think that is the best way to celebrate. I went out for lunch at an Indian Restaurant downtown and had some of the best curry I’ve had in ages. Anyhow you should watch the video below. The teacher, Joe McPherson, that put this together really spent alot of time. I know something about making videos and getting those FX right is more work than I’m willing to do.

There really are teachers who put in the extra effort out there. Hat Tip to The Marmot’s Hole.

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Gotta love the simpsons.

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I’m sure that readers have noticed the last few entries have been a virtual YouTube festival. That’s because I’ve been searching youtube looking for videos to use for a take home exam. It’s mid term season and with one of my classes I decided instead of doing the typical in class pen and paper exam I would give them a series of videos to watch and then answer a couple of questions about. I posted the exam on my student site today and it is due next friday. Hopefully it goes well. Here is are the questions (MS word) and in the extended entry you can watch the videos.