Yabla, March 7th and 8th

Our next FLTP workshop (March 7th and 8th) will present the ins and outs of Yabla as well as best practices for using Yabla in your classroom.

About Yabla: Yabla is an online collection of short videos that are scaffolded to maximize student learning and is currently available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The video categories include commercials, documentaries, drama, interviews, music videos, travel and more. Each video has user-controlled subtitling options, a transcript, playback options, listening comprehension exercises and an integrated dictionary. Visit http://www.yabla.com/ to view demos in the various languages.

The workshop presentation will be as follows:

­Part One: Digital video in the classroom

1.     Why use digital video to teach language?

2.     General considerations when using digital video in the classroom

Part Two: The basics of Yabla

1.     What Yabla has to offer

2.     Your Yabla account

3.     Exploring Yabla

4.     Creating assignments

Part Three: Integrating Yabla into your lesson plan

1.     Recommendations to capitalize on Yabla’s features

2.     Performing more creative searches for Yabla videos

3.     Contextualizing Yabla videos

4.     Alternate activities to supplement Yabla videos

ALTEC has purchased Yabla licenses for Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish teachers and students at CU.  *** If you teach ESL or a language in which Yabla is not currently offered and you would like to explore English Yabla in the workshop, email me at Courtney.Fell@colorado.edu and we can activate a temporary account for you!

Workshop Handouts:
     - Workshop Handout
     - Student Yabla Instructions
     - Instructor Yabla Instructions