Mark, and others,

All of the videos created by the MLoTS Team are available in  
Quicktime, Windows, or Flash  formats. The Quicktime and Windows  
files are downloadable for use in any manner that you -- or anyone --  
may choose. (If you right-click on the link to the video, you will  
have the option to download it).

Many of the linked videos available on the "Other Adult Learning  
Videos" page" (http://www.mlots.org/Other_video.html) are also  
downloadable. However, these videos are small in size for easy web  
viewing and may not be of a useful size for classroom viewing.

We are considering making the MLoTS Team-produced videos available in  
a larger format -- suitable for classroom television or as a DVD --  
but we would need to charge a fee for the materials and service. If  
you -- or anyone -- is interested in having our videos in another  
format, feel free to contact us about it. Our primary interest,  
however, is to make the videos available free in an online library.

We hope that professional developers will use these videos in a  
context in which they develop viewer guides and where teachers can  
discuss the videos. The idea is to give teachers a window into what  
other teachers do with their students, using good practices and  
standards-based education, and to discuss those strategies and  
techniques to reaffirm or change their own practices, and through  
this to improve instruction for learners.

(More comments below)

On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Needle, Mark D. wrote:


> 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.


Although most of the videos that we have linked to on the MLoTS Other  
Videos page are already in the public domain, in several cases where  
they were not we have sought permission to host them on our server as  
a service to the field. Of course, our main interest is to move  
beyond this limited collection of videos to develop a large video  
library. We do that by working with state professional development  
center staff who want us to make videos or to train teachers to make  
them, for whom classroom videos of teachers in their state further  
other goals such as developing standards-based education or improving  
teaching and programs.


> Between freely distributed and commercial videos, what is the quickest

> and best route to a basic permanent collection for adult educators?


We don't know, but because the adult education and literacy field is  
so under-resourced we thought the best way to provide teachers and  
professional developers with good quality classroom videos would be  
to make them available at no cost.  Of course, there are costs in  
making new videos, but with inexpensive, high quality cameras, and  
the relatively inexpensive training that we provide, teachers --  
under our guidance, and with our editing the videos -- can make good  
quality classroom and tutorial videos for comparatively little cost.  
Another strength of th MLoTS Teacher-made video model, from a PD  
point of view, is that when teachers video each others' classes this  
provides an ideal situation for peer mentoring.

David J. Rosen
djrosen at mlots.org


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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

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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

> _________________________

> 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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