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Video feedback allows users (both teachers and students) to provide high quality, personal, timely, actionable, continuous feedback. This easy to use feedback can be built upon so that the feedforward model can be followed without much extra effort. As students and teachers begin to use video to provide feedback, the more depth students can reach in their efforts to achieve the desired results of each unit of study. With the amount of tools students can use for video feedback (more that what is listed below), they will have a wide choice of products they can use based on what they are comfortable with.
As a way to save time and paper, teachers can record their annotations and voice as they grade. Using screencasting software or extensions, you can record the screen as you highlight portions of the paper. If you have a touch screen, you can also record what you write as part of the video. If you don't have a touchscreen, you can always add another extension that will allow you to annotate at the same time you capture the screen.
By using screen recordings as a way to provide feedback, students always have a copy of previous feedback shared with them. As a result, this allows them to complete the feedback process and use that information again to feedforward what they are learning.
Using the iPad app Playback
Use Playback to write, sketch and type on a virtual whiteboard or over your presentation slides or other PDFs. Playback will record your annotations along with audio commentary. When you are done you can export an MP4 movie of your presentation and a PDF showing your annotations, both of which should be shared with students to continue the feedback/feedforward process.
The Playback app can be found by clicking here.
Using Screencastify in Chrome
Teachers can use Screencastify to record what is on their screen as well as his/hreself. It is able to record all screen activity inside a tab, including audio. You can easily create a screencast for feedback as well as video tutorials, record presentations, etc. It also supports desktop capturing, allowing you to record anything on your screen (not just tabs).
This would be easy to use in conjunction with Google Docs where you can further explain your comments; the comments can be as brief as you want while the verbal explanation can be more detailed.
Be sure to add from Chrome Web Store as an Extension - if you don't know how, click here
How to use the Screencastify Extension from Waterford Schools
SnagIt works similar to Screencastify, but takes a little more to set it up. You can find it by clicking here.
Using Google Hangouts on Air
Google Hangouts can be used for more than meetings; teachers can also use them to create videos for students. Whether it be for feedback or for a tutorial, the key is to invite no one to the hangout, but pretend someone is there while you are creating the video. If you are using it for feedback, you can keep the video private to anyone with the link, it leaves it narrowed down just to that student. Students can look at the feedback to ensure that they are using what they learned to continue improving.
Want to know more? Here is an iTunesU course on Digital Differentiation with Screencasting. Need more help or other ideas? Fill out the form below
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