Digital Literacy and Modern Languages: How to Make a Digital Video

Abstract

In this article, you will learn how to integrate digital literacy and Modern Languages through digital videos. The first part of the article is mainly addressed to teachers and instructors and will extensively discuss pedagogical questions. It looks at how the digital video can help teach and learn the four language skills. In the second part of this article, i.e. the actual tutorial, you will learn how to make your own teacher/student-generated videos. The tutorial will explain how to combine and edit text, video and audio in a variety of ways, in order to serve different teaching and learning outcomes in Modern Languages, as well as looking at what software and applications can assist this purpose. In the final section, I will present a number of pedagogical activities using digital videos and what learning outcomes they can help achieve.