{"id":9733,"date":"2013-04-04T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/yals-and-bc-seminar-with-jamie-keddie\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:25:45","slug":"yals-and-bc-seminar-with-jamie-keddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yals.rs\/en\/yals-and-bc-seminar-with-jamie-keddie\/","title":{"rendered":"YALS and BC Seminar with Jamie Keddie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Image, video and storytelling<\/h1>\n

\"\"Tony O’Brien, Director of British Council Serbia, Marija Pejatovi\u0107, Chair of YALS, and Jamie Keddie, Presenter, at the Seminar opening<\/i><\/p>\n

23rd March, 2013, Belgrade<\/p>\n

by Jelena Spasi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n

On 23rd March we witnessed yet another brilliant seminar organized jointly by YALS<\/a> and the British Council<\/a>, and held in the beautiful premises of Guarnerius Fine Arts Centre in Belgrade. The seminar entitled \u201cImage, video and storytelling\u201d was held by Mr Jamie Keddie, a well-known teacher, trainer, writer, presenter and \u201crelentless innovator\u201d. He is the founder of Lessonstream.org<\/a>, the site where he explores the potential of online video in the classroom and gives ideas that, in his own words, \u201cinspire the teachers and engage the students\u201d.<\/p>\n

The seminar started with the warm welcome given by Ms Marija Pejatovi\u0107, Chair of YALS, and Mr Tony O`Brien, Director of the British Council Serbia. Both of them expressed great pleasure in being able to, once again, give teachers the opportunity to work on their professional development and, thus, improve the quality of language teaching in their own schools.<\/p>\n

The seminar was divided into four workshops, each of them showing a variety of different and innovative ideas in language teaching. The first session \u201cWitholding the image\u201d kept the teachers interested till the very end \u2013 Mr Keddie showed us how one video can be turned into a gap fill, questions and answers, true or false, continue the story exercise or any other type of exercise that you can think of to keep your students interested.<\/p>\n

The second session \u201cPicturetelling\u201d explored the ways one can use flashcards effectively and underlined the importance of Jamie`s principle \u201csay something, ask something\u201d in involving the students in the lessons as much as possible.<\/p>\n

In the third session \u201cTaking video apart\u201d, Mr Keddie discussed his seven steps to make a video usable in the classroom. He again underlined the importance of \u201cpushing and pulling language\u201d because it enables students to get the most of the language teaching.<\/p>\n

The fourth session \u201cVideotelling\u201d spoke about a combination of video and storytelling, or as you might have guessed, about a way of telling a story through using a video \u2013 and we did witness a lovely love story being created between the two bottles of milk.<\/p>\n

The seminar indeed broadened our views and enriched our knowledge by showing us how easy it can be to make our lessons interesting and our students interested. After the seminar, around one hundred satisfied teachers testified to that.<\/p>\n

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