A Vlog Idea: Comparing and Contrasting Videos
Here is an activity idea:
Compare and Contrast two performances, or recipes, or people, or books, or ideas or whatever else you can think of to compare and contrast. The important element is that it must involve embedding two videos and commenting on their similarities and differences.
In this post, I partially develop this idea by suggesting the use of videos of two people whose work I like very much - Paul Potts and Andrea Bocelli. I am not going to complete the exercise because I don't have the time! But you could try testing it out for me.
If students were to do this exercise, they might begin with a "Same/Different" grid to organize their ideas.
OK, the end.
I am going to digress a lot from this point and tell you a little bit about how I came across Paul Potts:
I stumbled upon Paul Potts’ performance when I read Time Magazine’s 2007 Top 10 reviews and went online to see what it was all about. This had been selected as the top live performance of the year. This is no mean feat considering the staggering number of live performances recorded each year all over the world.
Click on this link to see the Time Magazine review of Paul's performance. Below is the video of his performance.
Here is the second video to introduce you to Andrea Bocelli. Here, he's singing with Celine Dion.
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