INTERVUE OR INTERVIEW??

It's INTERVUE. Intervue is an amazing, quick and easy tool for anyone looking to gather their video responses towards a question. One could first create a topic or theme with few questions attached to it. Then, others will be able to choose either of the questions and response to it by recording a video of their answers with the use of a webcam. However, the answer must be kept concise as the recording cannot be more than 60 seconds. Once the video reply has been posted, others can also comment on it and remark how accurate is the answer.

How to Integrate Intervue in an ELT Class???

Example 1: Essay Writing

1. Teacher can first ask the students to sign up an account in http://intervue.me/.
2. Then, teacher will create a new Intervue page by stating the topic of the essay and attach three questions which are related to the content of the writing.
3. Students will then be given the link of the Intervue page. They would have to answer all the questions by recording a 1 minute video of their responses each to the questions. This is a way to brainstorm their ideas towards the content of the writing task.  
4. Students could also watch each other's video responses and comment on them. All these responses will mostly be the main points of their essay writing. 
5. Finally, the students could produce a piece of essay based on the ideas taken from the video recordings.     

P/S: This will be done in the pre-writing stage in order to activate students' schemata on the related topic. 

Example 2: Oral test

1. An English teacher could use Intervue to assess students' English speaking proficiency. 
2. Instead of doing the traditional way of oral test in class, why not try something different this time? The teacher could create a new Intervue page by posting a topic and a few questions to aid the students in speaking.  
3. Each and every students will have to log on to the page and record a video of their responses based on the topic stated.
4. Then, the teacher could assess his/her students' oral skills based on their level of fluency and accuracy in speaking.

Advantages:

• Students will be motivated to talk.
• It can be treated as an oral exercise. Teacher will have a record of it (e-portfolios).
• It involves real communication (authenticity).
• Students could do the recordings based on their own comfort zone (lower affective filter). 
• It is absolutely FREE.
• A sense of ownership can be created (personalisation).
• Boost students' confidence to speak. 

Limitations:

• If recordings are done at home, it may the destroy the spontaneity as the aim of perfection is greater. 
• It demands for internet connection, a microphone and a webcam.
• It only allows a maximum of 1 minute of recording.
• If the page is open to public, it may be likely to receive some inappropriate recordings. 

Come on, let's try it out!!

http://intervue.me/