Teresa MacKinnon: Video for language learning

Main Venue ARTHUR

Livestream

World Clock Sat 9pm GMT, 10pm London, 11pm Paris, 6am Tokyo (Sun), 5pm New York

Teresa MacKinnon: Video for language learning

Current trends and challenges to including digital video as part of the language teaching and learning experience. This presentation will address the why, the how and the who in order to support practitioners in confidently exploiting the potential of video as a communication channel for language learners.

Teresa MacKinnon is Vice Chair for external engagement and communications on University Council for Modern Languages where she leads the social networks for this over-arching organisation for UK Higher Education language provision. Her twitter presence as WarwickLanguage has over 2000 followers and she manages WarwickLanguage YouTube channel. She actively connects language educators across sectors. A mentor for the #globalclassroom network, and #edchat, she moderates twitter chats and is an experienced user of online classrooms. She also curates on scoop.it to amplify the voice of the foreign language community. She recently produced a report on tools for telecollaboration as an academic associate of the Higher Education Academy.