from [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> In a message dated 11/1/2012 7:29:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> writes: A very reliable way to make class-long live lectures more enervating and disempowering is to turn them into long video lectures. And then ask students to watch them twice or more. This is enslaving the students, rather than freeing them. The argument I heard was that "the kids like it because that's how they interact with their technology". (Not saying "yeah" or "nay" -- just repeating.) :) I went to a workshop not too long ago where they brought out the "1 minute of attention up to your age (maxing at 20)" and said that the "new" attention span is only 12 minutes (with reference to the cause being the length of an MTV video between commercials -- lol). Whatever the truth, it could be that "mini-lectures" might be a better way to go. Not "covering it all" in one long classroom video ... but breaking it into component parts where the learners could find the "piece" they need conveniently and go on from there. :) Alysse Suzanne Rasmussen, Ph.D. ASLTA Certification: Qualified TeachASL _www.teachasl.org_ (http://www.teachasl.org/) IDI Administrator, RID Sponsor President, Florida ASLTA, _www.faslta.org_ (http://www.faslta.org/) Chairman, Lulu G Lemery Foundation for Arts & Expression, Inc._ www.lemery.org<http://www.lemery.org>_ (http://www.lemery.org/) ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************