The idea behind silent video tasks originated in the Nordic-Baltic GeoGebra Network collaboration project for mathematics teachers and teacher educators.
I developed the idea further in my doctoral project "Silent video tasks - their definition, development and implementation in upper secondary school mathematics classrooms" under supervision of Freyja Hreinsdóttir (University of Iceland) and Zsolt Lavicza (Johannes Kepler University Linz).
When: At the start of a learning sequence, before students "know" the video topic
What: Show the silent video and collect students' ideas in a word cloud
How: "Write at least two or three words into the menti/desmos/..."
When: At the end of a learning sequence, after students have worked on the video topic
What: Show the silent video to the whole class
How: "Exactly, there is no sound. It is going to be your task to add the voiceover"
When: After showing the silent video
What: Split students randomly in pairs and give them access to the video link
How: "You can watch it as often as you want during your preparation for the recording"
When: Within the 20 minutes that students get for preparation and recording
What: Students figure out what recording technique they use to record their voiceover
How: "Keep in mind that your response might support other students in accessing the topic"
When: After students hand in their task responses (voiceover recordings)
What: Whole-group listening to the different responses and discussion based thereof
How: "How do you understand...? Can you rephrase...? What do you think/wonder...?"
When: After implementation of the silent video task
What: Teacher listens again to students' responses
How: *Write notes and plan the next steps of instruction*
Non-example of a silent video task
Because...
It is too long (more than 2 min)
It contains text
It shows one solution strategy
Here is a link to my doctoral thesis and to the defense on October 19, 2021.
You can also check out my publications on silent video tasks.