HapYak allows you to add text blurbs and doodles on top of a
YouTube or Vimeo video. As a writing task for students, I
created a Play List of YouTube videos that do not include any
spoken dialogue. One of my favorite places to search for videos
for writing tasks is the Vancouver Film School. The writing task
was to provide narrated blurbs for the videos. Since present
progressive is one of the current themes, some of the sentences
needed to be written in present progressive. I created an
example of what I expect from the students. Even though the
videos are short (they have a minute and a half to three
minutes) – I am still going to have them work in a small group
to achieve higher quality finished products. The pre-writing
task will be watching the video and writing down potentially
important words they need to define. One of the videos is about
an opposum – and that is not a word I actually expect my
students to know in Spanish. Verbs have to be defined in the
infinitive. After the pre-writing phase, studen