Photo show video

Let the students use their own photos to create a photo show video is a great way to learn the target language. It can be used to keep a journal, create a story, talk about hobbies and interests, and also learn new words with related pictures. Due to the formal limit of the captions, students need to summarize their ideas in a short sentence, or they would need to add text in another scene. Animoto is a user-friendly tool for this purpose. It has many styles to choose and has further functionality in the pro version.

I created my video to show some photos of my spring break. I used the simple past tense to narrate the story. The teacher can ask the students to write a journal or talk about their interests and give rubric to train certain grammar points such as simple past tense and conjunctions.

Performance Indicator
ESL.I.5-8.1.1.12: Students convey information and ideas through spoken and written language, using conventions and features of American English appropriate to audience and purpose.

ESL.I.5-8.4.1.2:  Students describe, read about, participate in, or recommend a favourite activity, book, song, or other interest to various audience.

Assessment
The teacher gives a rubric before the assignment. In class activities: 1. Randomly form groups with two students. 2. Let them watch each other's video. 3. The creator illustrates the video while playing. 4. The listener gives feedback and helps the creator revise the video based on the rubric. 5. Ask a few students to narrate their partners' video. After class activities: Let the students write a self-evaluation of the task. Including the creating process, difficulties they met, their partner's opinions, what they learned from others' video, etc.