ESL Teachers’ Video production

The hardest homework I have ever had! The words can’t express how frustrated and exhausted I am. I didn’t get the meaning of doing all these as a teacher. I am an ESL teacher and not a video producer, plus I am not interested at all in producing videos. My sister and I dedicated too much time to shoot and when we wanted to import the recordings from the cassette, it didn’t work simply because the cable and the computer device didn’t match. The computer device is more recent one, while the cable is a bit older although they both are from the same company. And because of this problem we used one of our earlier videos for the homework. And this is so discouraging. I really want to know what is the point of doing all this in a masters’ degree program of teaching English as a foreign language. I am here to learn about the effective ways of teaching English as a foreign language and to know the recent methods used around the world. And this video production is really time-consuming for me as a teacher, and I am sure I will never use it.

Plus why to produce a video if there are thousands of videos on line and if I couldn’t find a proper one for my class I can ask a video producer to do it. Almost all the technologies that Dr. Madyarov presented in the Technology class were great and can be used in teaching, but this one I do not think that it is a good idea for teachers to produce or ask their students to do. I prefer to spend hours looking for great activities for my students to let them interact meaningfully than spending days trying to be a video producer. I am sure even if I ask the students to produce a video they will not be able to do it. Plus not all the students might have all the good technological devices to complete the homework. Although the technical part was not that hard, but still I am against the idea of teachers producing videos. I can use my creativity in creating interesting activities for my students, where they even can use their own creativity to complete a task. And it is not necessary for my students or for me to be video producers or know all these information about the video production.