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제가 고등학교 때 이렇게 해서 다큐 테이프를 받은 사람이 없다. This was no joke for my high school self who received videos like this one. I'll never forget the day I walked up to my AP Language teacher, Ms. McGee, and asked her why people would put together audiovisual presentations in English class when you could just read the text in a textbook. She responded, "It helps the students discover that English is more than what they learn in text books." And then she added that English is an "open" language, and that the only way to discover its richness is to use it with visuals. With her last words stuck in my head, I decided right then and there to start using videos with my students. I can't believe this never happened until recently when I went on YouTube to do a search for "English" and saw this video, which I had watched back in late 2007.  The video was for English learners who were made fun of by their teachers or peers because they didn't know how to read or write English. Back then, I was a student at Seoul Foreign School, a private school located in the heart of Seoul.  In middle school, my peers and teachers used to laugh at me, saying how hilarious it was to see me struggling with English language. Later on I realized that my weak English skills were the result of my American English teacher's failure to include video technology in the classroom.  There was a complete lack of visual aids during my first two years of English education. My first ever encounter with visual aids came on the second semester on high school when we had AP Language classes. Ms. McGee came up with an awesome idea: we were going to use VOA's English classes as the videos that would be played in class.  I was all for this. At first, my peers and teachers found it strange to see me sitting in the back of the classroom, watching videos of strangers learning English. After a while, however, they adapt to the new system and things started to work out pretty smoothly until.... The Visuals-Overload Stage I have never seen so many visuals being thrown at students until I reached the latter part of my high school life.   Well, I can't say that I was fully oblivious to the fact that everyone hated the presentation videos because it seemed like everyone started telling me so. I still don't know how Ms. McGee and my teacher could convince the MADs (moms and dads) that we needed more visuals in our classroom.  I mean, we already had English books, dictionaries and grammar books.  And even though we were watching those videos, we never used them as a reference during class and practice time.... If there is one thing I can say about my high school English class, it's that we really drove our teachers nuts because we were always asking them for more visuals during class time.... eccc085e13

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