Online streaming is an efficient way to distribute professional
development videos, but in our district the adult centers also have
access to an educational television service that reaches all school and
classroom TV's.  We want to take advantage of this television service to
provide common training to teachers at many different sites (the videos
can be broadcast at set times, loaned to schools, or accessed
"on-demand" by our teachers or teacher trainers).  To do that we're
looking for suggestions to build a special collection of professional
development DVD's focused on the needs of adult educators.  

MLoTS is doing a great service by compiling public domain videos in a
streaming format, but can these videos be made available for downloading
and burning to DVD by local programs?  Or are there other recommended
sources?  We've seen a few sites (www.otan.us, www.floridatechnet.org,
and www.abspd.appstate.edu), some of which provide for acquiring videos
in DVD format.  

Between freely distributed and commercial videos, what is the quickest
and best route to a basic permanent collection for adult educators?  

Mark Needle, Educational Specialist
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs / School Operations
1450 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 560
Miami, FL 33132
Tel:  (305) 995-7280
Fax:  (305) 995-1514
E-mail:  mneedle at dadeschools.net
 
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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:06:38 -0400
From: "David J. Rosen" <djrosen at comcast.net>
Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 2161] More classroom videos added to
	MLoTS
To: The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
	<professionaldevelopment at nifl.gov>
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Professional Development Colleagues,

We have just reorganized, added to, and updated the Media Library of  
Teaching Skills (MLoTS) page that has classroom and tutorial videos  
made by others. It now includes:

28 Videos on Integrating technology
20 English language learning (ESOL/ESL classroom or tutorial) videos and
8   Basic Literacy tutorial videos
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56 short classroom and tutorial videos in Total

http://mlots.org/Other_video.html

On the MLoTS main page http://MLoTS.org you will find four videos  
that the MLoTS Team (David J. Rosen and Owen Hartford) have made,  
including three on vocabulary development and one on adult numeracy.  
We will soon add three more videos that we have recently made in  
Vermont, and another made in Massachusetts.

We will also shortly have a searchable database of all these videos  
that we will invite you to test-drive.

The Media Library of Teaching Skills for adult learning and literacy  
project is a free online digital library of short videos of adult  
education teachers and their classes, intended for use in  
professional development. Each video is an example of a state- 
approved content standard, research-based practice, preferred  
approach, or specific teaching method or skill. In some cases these  
are examples in practice of a particular state's approved curriculum  
frameworks or content standards. The project began in March, 2007,  
and has grown as new videos are added to the online library.

Some of the MLoTS videos were made and edited by the MLoTS Team. Some  
were made by other people and groups. We hope that some videos will  
made by teachers working in pairs or threes, to video each other,  
whom the MLoTS Team will train. Contact us if you are interested in  
this model.

If you know of good classroom or tutorial adult education videos  
(including basic literacy, ABE, ASE, ESOL/ESL, numeracy, and  
transition to Higher Ed) that could be digitized and made available  
(at no cost) in the MLoTS online video library, please let us know.


David J. Rosen
djrosen at mlots.org


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