1. Topic for Professional Development: ULead Video Studio for Language Teachers OyaBolgün 564 – Social Implications of Education
2. Goals and Measurable Objectives This training will improve student learning by exposing them to more authentic audio and video tailored to their needs This training will improve teacher effectiveness by enabling them to modify videos to fit their instruction needs This training will enhance staff intellectual and leadership capacity by giving them the ability to manipulate any audio/video materials they find on the Internet that they deem to be necessary and useful for their students. This way, they will not be limited to what is available at school.
3. Summary of Needs Assessment and Purpose of Training Language instructors are currently limited to audio/video materials that are available at school library. The Internet, on the other hand, has an infinite number of audio/video resources. However, most of these are not in a format or length suitable for use in class. They need to be edited. This training will enable instructors to use a video editing program to turn these videos into a length and format suitable for language teaching in a classroom environment.
4. Specific content as it relates to goals / objectives of professional development Adding music or voice to videos Adding themes to videos Adding titles to videos Adding video effects to videos Creating and uploading YouTube videos Displaying multiple images at once Matching your audio track to the length of your video
5. Websites with useful resources for workshop participants www.atomiclearning.com http://www.flickr.com/
6. How will your evaluation provide data to determine if goals and measurable objectives were met? I will assign a project that incorporates the specific objectives listed earlier
7. Connect your needs assessment to your final evaluation plan to determine if professional development training is successful I will administer a survey and/or a follow-up project to see if participants have learned the specific objectives and are keeping up with the training they received.
8. Measuring improvement in teaching Achievement tests to measure students’ improvement Mid-program and end-of-program student questionnaires to evaluate teachers’ success in teaching
