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What inspires you?
With the end of school, graduations, and the world opening up again, now seems like a good time to think about what inspires us.
The year the world stopped
At this time last year, the world was bracing for what had suddenly been deemed a pandemic, and we all thought we would only have to push through and hold our breath (literally) for a few weeks, maybe a couple of months … tops.
What’s a mini-documentary?
In the world of ELT, a mini-documentary is a short three to five minute video which features a topic and visually describes its main elements with an accompanying narrative appropriate for that particular language level.
Situational videos with useful phrases for your online English classes
Feeling like your online classes need a mid-week boost?
NEW Teacher Resources page!
ELT ImageMakers is getting ready to launch their new Teacher Resources page.
Videos to spark discussion in your ELT classes
Looking for some videos to engage your online classes?
Nomination for an ELTon in Course Innovation
ELT ImageMakers' owner, Anna Whitcher, and fellow script writers, Nora Hennick and Lynne Robertson, are excited to hear the results of tomorrow's ELTons' ceremony.
What's your mood today?
The current state of the world has made all of our moods more fragile than before.
Calling all English language teachers!
"Can you roll your tongue?" "Can you wiggle your ears?" These are just some of the quirky questions you can ask your students as they watch this ESL classroom in California act out some of these genetic abilities.
Slowing down and being more deliberate
When Kieran Donaghy and I first showed this short film at the Image Conference in 2014 in Cordoba, Spain, we had a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering what we were talking about.
ELT ImageMakers at TESOL Spain 2020
ELT ImageMakers' video researcher, script writer and teaching consultant, Victoria Pascual, spoke about her role last month at TESOL, Spain, in Salamanca. Little did we know that this would be the last conference in a while as it was just before the unforeseen lockdown in Europe due to coronavirus.
Jason Sterling makes debut as background actor
Our own Jason Sterling (Technology) has jumped out of his comfort zone and tried something completely different, by being a background actor for the first time in a feature film.
Successful 3-day shoot in Barcelona
ELT ImageMakers was in Barcelona, Spain, recently for a video shoot for one of their clients.
The Image Conference 2019
At the beginning of last month, I had the honor and pleasure of participating in the annual Image Conference as a plenary speaker and co-presenter.
Anna Whitcher and Victoria Pascual talk about their session at the Image Conference Brussels
Watch Anna Whitcher and Victoria Pascual’s video teaser for their talk “Language teachers and video producers working together” at the Image Conference in Brussels on Saturday 5th October.
Anna Whitcher talks about her Image Conference experience in Athens
Anna Whitcher, who delivered a training session on ‘Language learning through video creation’, talks about her experience at the Image Conference in Athens.
The Image Conference
The Image Conference, the annual conference of the Visual Arts Circle, is an innovative and collaborative project which seeks to explore the possibilities which film, video, images and video games offer to both language teachers and language learners.
The Image in English Language Teaching
The Image in English Language Teaching is a book edited by Kieran Donaghy and Daniel Xerri with contributions from several prominent writers in ELT.
Putting Students in the Director’s Chair
In this 2015 article by Jess Hytner from Cambridge University Press, Anna Whitcher’s webinar explores how teachers can use video creation as an engaging classroom project.