The Video Shadowing item plays a YouTube clip line by line. Students "shadow" each subtitle line, speaking along with the video as the words highlight. There is no speech recognition. The student should just practice speaking along with the video.
Using Video Shadowing
The student will see the video first, from the specified start to end time. Then each line of text will be played 1 or more times (configurable). During each play the student should practice saying the sentence aloud at the same time as the video. Depending on the availability of captions for the video, either the sentence or individual words will highlight in red as the student should speak them.
Configuring VideoShadowing
Youtube Video URL and start/end times
The activity author will need to add the YouTube URL of the video and set the start and end times of the video.
VTT captions
The author should provide the VTT captions for the video. If the video has captions/subtitles, it may be possible to fetch them by pressing the "fetch subtitles" button. Otherwise you will need to manually create a VTT file, but in practice this is not realistic. So you will only use YouTube videos that have captions/subtitles.
Enable per word highlighting
If the webvtt data supports it per word highlighting can be enabled, which should give students visual hints on the pace at which to shadow.
Shadow count per line
The shadow count per line sets the number of times the student will shadow the same line.
Pause between shadows
The pause between shadows is how many seconds to pause between shadow attempts on the same line.
Lines to shadow
It is possible to enumerate the lines to shadow by entering a csv list of line numbers. The line number will be shown in the vtt/ captions data for the video. By default Lines to shadow is set to: * - which means all lines