Vocab Videos: Bringing Vocabulary to Life

Hello Educators!

My team at A-List Education has developed an online vocabulary system that I think would be of interest to many of you. Recognizing the difficulty many students have learning new words through conventional means, our team created Vocab Videos (http://www.vocabvideos.com) after intense analysis and research. This unique teaching system employs proven educational methodologies and helps connect high school students with the content and expand their vocabulary, while entertaining them along the way. Here’s a bit more about Vocab Videos, so you can evaluate whether it might be a good fit for your classrooms:

Vocab Videos is an entertaining and effective learning system that brings vocabulary to life. Leveraging humor, pop culture and engaging characters, Vocab Videos helps increase student understanding and retention of vocabulary words through verbal, auditory and visual cues. Vocab Videos teaches students more than 500 of the most frequently tested vocabulary words found in advanced high school English classes and on college admissions tests such as the SAT and ACT.

Parodies of popular television shows such as Lost, The Office, 24 and Gossip Girl appeal to students by making the content relevant, memorable and compelling (check out some sample videos here: http://www.vocabvideos.com/our-vocab-videos.html). Students develop a more sophisticated understanding of vocabulary words and usage through Vocab Videos as compared to traditional methods, such as flashcards, that only promote short-term memorization.

Vocab Videos offers a Web-based service in which subscribers have unlimited access to content on the Vocab Videos website, including quizzes, review materials and video clips. A-List also offers Web portal customization and licensing agreements for teachers, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations enabling them to incorporate Vocab Videos into existing curricula. Vocab Videos can be used to enhance daily curricula, to bring something innovative and engaging to English lessons, and to assist with standardized test preparation.

A-List is currently working with a number of school districts and educational organizations to bring Vocab Videos to as many students as possible, and would be more than willing to offer discounted licensing arrangements to English Companion teachers and schools.

I hope that I’ve sparked your interest in what I truly believe to be a revolutionary vocabulary system. I’d love to hear some of your thoughts on Vocab Videos, so please do share. Also feel free to message me with any comments or questions you may have, or e-mail me at caroliner@alisteducation.com.

Best,
Caroline