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Dear all,

I am really puzzled to keep hearing the term "lecture" (either a live one,
or as a video). Teaching language should have nothing to do with lecturing!
The best way to do it is by interaction between teachers and students, and
students with their peers, and all with the material taught/learned, which
has to be authentic and refreshed in order to be current and fun, with
which the students can be familiar and identify. Technology and social
media are only a means/aid in that process. They can consist of a variety
of "exercises" [e.g., in the form of video about current events, comics,
text, recordings, animation, games, etc.], being posted on the class's
blog, and students interact with the materials and their classmates and the
teacher in relation to the context. The process is continuing in class,
where more stuff is taught and drilled. A friend and colleague of mine has
been using this format with her students, and they keep coming back to the
blog, responding to their classmates' works, and then each of them improves
her/his work, so that they all take responsibility of their learning
process). I refer you to an article Rivka Weiner and I (Dania Shapira) have
published a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, they wanted us to eliminate
our thorough theoretical part, and only leave there the practitioner's
experience, but this is a good example (since then we have advanced our
knowledge and use of new media) for using technology in teaching language
in a fun and effective way:

TEACHING AND REACHING THE WIRELESS GENERATION--sharing the construction of
a typical lesson-plan, originally successfully used at the college level,
but which can easily be adapted to elementary through high school settings
too. *Jewish Educational Leadership Journal, * Fall (November) 2010, The
Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, School of Education,
Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Sincerely,

Dr. Dania Shapira Israel/Boston