Students in Catalonia have carried out various video projects in schools to support language learning. These projects include using closed-circuit TVs, self-recording, stop-motion animation, magical effects, interviews, ads, stories, dramas, news reports, and documentaries. Examples are provided of different types of videos students have created on topics like vocabulary, concepts, and school events. Resources for teachers on using video in education are also listed.

1. Video projects
carried out in
schools in
Catalonia
Xavier Costa
CEIP Catalunya,
Navarcles (Barcelona)

2. Masats, D., Dooly, M., & Costa, X. (2009). Exploring the potential of language learning through video
making. In L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer & I. Candel Torres (Eds.). Proceedings of EDULEARN09
Conference (p. 341-352). Valencia: IATED. Available at:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83

3. TAG E
P RE-S

4. Masats, D., Dooly, M., & Costa, X. (2009). Exploring the potential of language learning through video
making. In L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer & I. Candel Torres (Eds.). Proceedings of EDULEARN09
Conference (p. 341-352). Valencia: IATED. Available at:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83

5. CT
ONTA ERA
FIRST C E CAM
TH
W ITH Closed TV circuit
DESCRIPTION:
Students use a closed
circuit TV to
experiment with the
span of a video
Webcam.
EXAMPLE:
Title: “Realitat o imatge” (= reality or image)
School: CEIP Angeleta Ferrer, Mataró (Barcelona).
http://video.xtec.cat:8080/ramgen/edu3tv/video/videoteca/video2007/5m7193.rm

6. CT
O NTA ERA Self-recording
FIRST C E CAM
H
WI TH T
DESCRIPTION:
Children learn to
record themselves
and to experiment
with a sound and a
video editor.
EXAMPLE:
Title: Així sóc jo (=This is what I’m like)
School: CEIP Mn. Albert Vives, La Seu d’Urgell (Lleida).
http://video.xtec.cat:8080/ramgen/edu3tv/video/videoteca/video2007/5m7193.rm

7. N
M ATIO
ANI
TRICKS Magical effects
DESCRIPTION:
EXAMPLE:
Children learn to use the camera to get Title: La Caixa Màgica (=The magic box)
objects/people to disappear. School: CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles
(Barcelona).

8. N
M ATIO
ANI Stop-motion
TRICKS
DESCRIPTION:
Students use the camera to learn basic
animation tricks. One possibility is to use
the stop-motion technique. Students make
lego / plasticine characters that are moved
on a decorated background and the camera
captures the moves. The shots are edited
with sounds and transition effects.
EXAMPLE:
Title: Les cases dels tres porquets (=The houses of the three little pigs)
School: Daniel Mangrané i Escardó, Tortosa (Tarragona).
http://www.xtec.cat/ceipdanielmangrane/mostra08/porquets.htm

9. S
W ORD
VIDEO
DESCRIPTION:
Students produce video dictionaries;
clips to illustrate words in their
mother tongue or in the target
language.
EXAMPLE 1:
Title: “Catalan words: theme body language”
School: CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles (Barcelona).
http://divisproject.eu/
EXAMPLE 2:
Title: The magic ball (vocabulary related to classroom materials)
School: CEIP Martí Bleach, Barcelona.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-4XdLKP7o

10. C EPTS
CON
V IDEO
DESCRIPTION:
This task is similar to the one presented for
video words. What is different is that the task
allows the integration of content knowledge.
EXAMPLE 1: 11 clips with vocabulary related to video production elaborated during
DIVIS workshop at CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles (Barcelona) with the collaboration of
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
http://blocs.xtec.cat/divis/aportacions-al-projecte-taller-de-video/
EXAMPLE 2: Various clips with vocabulary related to instruments and procedures to
study of river banks produced by CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles (Barcelona).
http://blocs.xtec.cat/divis/aportacions-al-projecte/

11. Masats, D., Dooly, M., & Costa, X. (2009). Exploring the potential of language learning through video
making. In L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer & I. Candel Torres (Eds.). Proceedings of EDULEARN09
Conference (p. 341-352). Valencia: IATED. Available at:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83

12. Masats, D., Dooly, M., & Costa, X. (2009). Exploring the potential of language learning through video
making. In L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer & I. Candel Torres (Eds.). Proceedings of EDULEARN09
Conference (p. 341-352). Valencia: IATED. Available at:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83

13. lips/
Videoc lms
silent fi
DESCRIPTION:
Videoclips: Students need to manipulate
images to create a
video clip for a well-known song.
Example:
Title: (various)
School: CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles (Barcelona)
http://vimeo.com/channels/41983
Silent cinema: Students tell stories using the techniques of silent cinema. Black
and white moving images are accompanied with written texts to contextualise
actions.
Example:
Title: (various)
School: CEIP Bosc, Barberà del Vallès (Barcelona).
Go to: activitats / tallers / cinemut/Cicle Superior
http://www.xtec.cat/ceipbosc-barbera/

14. views
I nter
DESCRIPTION:
Children prepare interviews and record them.
EXAMPLE 1:
Title: L’escola dels nostres pares i avis (=the school of our parents and grand
parents). (students interview elder people who studied abroad as children)
School: CEIP Montserrat, Sarrià de Ter (Girona).
http://video.xtec.cat/real/mostra2008/320.rm
EXAMPLE 2:
Title: Projecte Comarques. (=Project ‘our counties’)
School: CEIP Drassanes, Barcelona / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
http://greip.uab.cat/materials/Comarques/entrevistadona.wmv

15. Ads
DESCRIPTION:
Students create ads to advertise
everyday school events or design
campaigns to reflect on the language of
the media.
EXAMPLE:
Title: (various)
School: CEIP Canigó, St Just Desvern (Barcelona).
www.xtec.es/ceip-canigo-santjust/superior/tv.htm

16. s
orie
Sh ort s t
DESCRIPTION:
Clips with just a few shots are used to
present healthy recipes (example 1).
narrate stories from other countries (example 2).
convey a message (example 3).
EXAMPLE 1:
Title: I love cooking
School: CEIP Barceló i Matas, Palafrugell (Girona).
http://phobos.xtec.net/audiovisuals/lamostra/008/treballs.php?fitxa=506
EXAMPLE 2 (project on African oral stories):
Title: Dotze mans per a un conte (=12 hands to tell a story)
http://xtec.cat/ceipvoradelmar/mostra08/mostra08.htm
EXAMPLE 3:
Title: (various)
School: CEIP Martí i Pol, Sabadell.
http://www.xtec.cat/ceipmartipol-sabadell/mostra2008/mostra08video.htm

17. lay s
Dra ma p
DESCRIPTION:
Videos are used as tools to:
dramatise a story (example 1).
illustrate procedures (example 2).
express one’s viewpoint on a social problem (example 3).
dramatise the story told by the lyrics of a song (example 4).
EXAMPLE 1:
Title: La rateta que escombrava l’escaleta (=Pretty Ritty)
Kindergarten: CEIP Carme Guasch i darné, Figueres (Girona).
http://www.xtec.cat/centres/b7008808/VTS-o1_1.rm
EXAMPLE 2:
Title: Ara preparem un circuit elèctric (=Now we prepare an electronic circuit)
School: ZER Riu i Serra, Aldover-Benifallet-Paüls (Tarragona).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4DaGfRM46A
EXAMPLE 3 (good wishes for tolerance):
Title: Zapping
School: CEIP Drassanes, Barcelona.
http://blocs.xtec.cat/videodrassanes/2008/04/09/zaping/
EXAMPLE 4:
Title: unknown
School: ZER Narieda, Organyà / Coll de Nargó (Lleida).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNCzZfK36W0

18. Masats, D., Dooly, M., & Costa, X. (2009). Exploring the potential of language learning through video
making. In L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer & I. Candel Torres (Eds.). Proceedings of EDULEARN09
Conference (p. 341-352). Valencia: IATED. Available at:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83

19. s
TV new
DESCRIPTION:
Children report news on school events in
the format of a TV news programme.
EXAMPLE 1:
Title: Telenotícies escolar (=School TV news).
School: Ceip Daniel Mangrané i Escardó, Tortosa (Tarragona).
http://www.xtec.cat/ceipdanielmangrane/mostra08/telenoticies.htm
EXAMPLE 2 (Fiction news on Iguazú Water Falls):
Title: Notícies Zero
School: Ceip Progrés, Badalona (Barcelona).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_GitGF1qQQ

20. s
enta ri e
Docum
DESCRIPTION:
Students produce
documentaries as tools to summarise their
findings on a research project.
EXAMPLE (project on the history of this secondary school):
Title: Various clips
School: IES Egara, Terrassa (Barcelona).
http://www.xtec.cat/iesegara/mostra/mostra.html

21. RESOURCES for teachers ( Catalan) 1
• Title: La màgia de les imatges en moviment
Author: Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Description: A 27’:57’’ clip addressed to secondary teachers and students. It
illustrates why and how images move and how this can be taught to secondary
students.
http://video.xtec.cat:8080/ramgen/edu3tv/video/videoteca/avalaula/5m807.rm
Title: Audiovisuals
Author: Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Description: 2’:27’’ clip in which children narrate how to create a video using the
stop-motion technique.
http://video.xtec.cat:8080/ramgen/edu3tv//video/videoteca/bitalaula/5m7131.rm
• Title:El vídeo com a eina de comunicació a l’aula. Usos i tractament didàctic.
Author: Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Description: Video course with methodological proposals.
http://www.xtec.cat/formaciotic/dvdformacio/materials/tdv37//guia/index.html

22. RESOURCES for teachers ( Catalan) 2
• Title: Juga amb les imatges
Author: Llogari Casas.
Description: An interactive wesite in which children can learn video production
procedures and terms while they play and experiment
http://www.xtec.es/~lcasas1/
Title: Espai d’Audiovisuals
Author: Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Description: Website of the department of Education (Catalan Government) devoted
to audiovisual education.
http://www.xtec.net/audiovisuals/index.htm
• Title:Cinema en curs
Author:A Bao A Qu
Description:Website about a project to help primary and secondary schools to
organise cinema projects
http://www.cinemaencurs.org/novaweb/

23. RESOURCES for teachers ( Catalan) 3
• Title: AULAMÈDIA
Author: Aula media.
Description: Website of Aula Media working group whose aim is to promote
audivisual education.
http://www.aulamedia.org/
Title: EDUMÈDIA
Author: Edumedia.
Description: Website of Aula Media section devoted to audiovisual education in
primary schools and kindergartens.
http://edumediacat.wordpress.com/qui-som/
• Title:Linguamón Audivisuals
Author:Linguamón (La casa de les llengües)
Description:Website of this governamental institution whose aim is to promote
language awareness and multilingual education. It contains an interesting video
section on language projects.
http://www.linguamon.cat/

24. DIVIS - Digital video streaming and multilingualism
141759-LLP-1-2008-1-DE-COMENIUS-CMP
This presentation is part of DIVIS work package 2 (research on current
video experiences).
Elaborated by:
Xavier Costa (CEIP Catalunya, Navarcles, Barcelona).
In collaboration with:
Dolors Masats (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona).
Related article:
http://divisproject.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=83
http://divisproject.eu