A book is always ready
A book allows you to go at your own pace
A book can follow you morning, noon and night, but...
A teacher is more animated, more entertaining, more engaging
A teacher can talk to you and help guide a student's understanding by elaborating, providing examples or modeling
A teacher can impart knowledge and build knowledge alongside you, but...
A teacher can’t be with you at all hours, anyplace, anytime!
A video can be viewed just about anyplace, anytime
A video can be viewed over and over again until you understand what is being conveyed, and...
A well-produced video can be just as entertaining and engaging as a "live" teacher.
This section will present a series of videos that highlight both good and bad ways to create videos.
Which of the following videos do you find most engaging?
Each video shown above profiles a GMU professor. In some, you'll see that the content is engaging, but perhaps the speaker is not as dynamic. In another, we see a professor who gets into character to bring the video to life, but that over-dramatization may not suit everyone.
The goal should be to find balance between engaging content and letting your own style or personality shine through.
This video provides some good examples of bad video!
Check out these tips for making a good video:
You can add interactive elements to your video using a few online tools. This is a great way to keep your students engaged. Here are a few online tools we recommend for adding interactivity:
Free, video interaction tool, enables video and audio creation and interaction tools such as multiple-choice questions, true/false, short answer, analytics, for both PC and Mac
Free add-on for PowerPoint, enables video and audio creation, and interaction such as polling, analytics, for PC only
Free, video interaction tool, enables video and audio creation and interaction tools such as multiple-choice questions, true/false, short answer, analytics, for both PC and Mac (here's a demo)
Free, video creation and interaction tool, enables limited interactive activities for non-commercial videos (End Screens and Cards), for both PC and Mac
Now it is time to try your hand!
Here's a demo
Try out PlayPosit!
First, you'll need to sign up for a free account
Next, get started by creating your first interactive video piece. Below are the step-by-step instructions:
1. Upload to YouTube and use your own webcam or cellphone produced video -- OR -- find a YouTube video you want to use for the lesson and copy the URL
2. Select "Design a Bulb"
3. Paste the URL of the video and then hover over the orange 'action' button in the center of the video timeline. and choose 'add question'
4. Select the question type you would like to insert
After you've had some time to play around and test out the tool, share a few ideas of how you might use the tool in your classes: Padlet: Video
(Click on the + button on the bottom right corner to add your content)
Access more tools for video production from the Resources page