Hiroshima dialect [hiroshima ben/広島弁]

For the second project, groups of two or three students were asked to use video to explain and illustrate examples of the local Hiroshima dialect.

What's the matter? (What's up with you?)



Taigii (I'm tired of something, I can't be bothered)

First project 2007

After the first session which was to devoted to ice-breaking activities and a short introduction about videoblogging and the aims of course, we had the students go out of the class and shoot some footage to be edited and uploaded to the Internet.

The aim of this class was to show just how easy the whole process is in order to allay any anxieties students might have about what was involved. The only conditions set were that they should take no more than 3 minutes of footage and that the footage should not be one continuous shot, but split into several clips. English input was limited to adding an English title in the editing stage.

This is what the three groups came up with

What is Koudoukan?



Japanese Children's Games



Play tag!



In terms of allowing the students to become familiar with the cameras and editing software, the session was relatively successful. However, it proved difficult to save the video files and upload them all up to the class show page on Blip.tv within the 90 minute class. On reflection, not immediately being able to see what they had made "out there" on the Web for all to see was a missed opportunity to convey the appeal of videoblogging as well as the idea of what it is all about. It also, didn't appear that videoblogging was quite as easy as we had told them it would be.