Goals:
- Learn why it is important to use video to distribute information to students outside of class
- Learn best practices for generating online videos
Some of the benefits
- Frees up class time for discussion or in depth analysis of topics
- Allows students to watch the content multiple times, stop, and rewind.
- Provides another avenue to let students get to know you.
- Research shows this benefits minorities, first generation, women and underrepresented populations most.
Some suggestions
- Make it simple and easy for students to access the content (YouTube, Vimeo, Spark, Camtasia)
- Make videos short and to the point (4-6 minute micro lectures)
- What to include in short videos: foundational knowledge, lab techniques, worked through examples (science), real life applications of the topics covered in class and images you annotate.
- If you are going to require students to be accountable to watching videos, there should be motivation behind it. (accompanied short quiz, link to pre-class discussion boards, and not repeating the exact same material in class)
What does the process look like?
- Generate content / outline for video - if it seems it will be too long, break up into a multi-part series.
- Schedule a time to use the IVS (https://calendly.com/ietl)
- Prepare IVS for your specific needs
- Edit the video (Adobe Premiere, Adobe Spark, Windows Story Remix, Final Cut Pro)
- Share the video (YouTube, Vimeo, Spark...)
Credits:
Created with images by TeroVesalainen - "question mark why problem" • Joshua_Willson - "clapper board clapper movie" • Skitterphoto - "film movie cinema"