🤔 What is video? How can it support what we are learning?
Video taps into the current interests and habits of my students and can easily connect them with authentic audiences. They use video to document their knowledge, reflect on the learning process, and teach others how to do new things.
~Courtney Sears, author of Edutopia blog "Student-Created Videos in the Classroom"
🧐 Let's see videos in action and get some ideas!
Substitution: Student records themselves reading aloud so that the teacher can review the video to learn more about the student's reading fluency.
Augmentation: Students record a short video reflection at the end of a lesson summarizing what they have learned. Videos are uploaded to Google Classroom for the teacher to review.
Modification: Students record a video presentation about a specific fraction. They utilize visuals, basic animation, and text in their video to show what they know about that fraction.
Redefinition: Student writes a script for their own play. Student enlists peers as characters in their play and films the play (acting as the director). Student utilizes an editing software to edit the clips into a full film. Student shares the film with the class allowing peers to critque it.
🤓 Let's Give it a Try!
Now it's your turn to create. Choose 1 of the tools below and learn how to use it. Create your own artifact with this tool. It should be something you would use with students or with coworkers. You'll add either your completed artifact or a link to this artifact to the Google Classroom Assignment below.
🤩 Let's Design for Students
If you choose to write a lesson plan, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Introduction: How will you hook students in?
Instruction: What are you teaching?
Activity: What will students be doing or creating?
Conclusion: How will you wrap things up?
If you choose to build the lesson materials, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Teacher Materials: What will you be showing/teaching the students?
Student Materials: What directions, models, rubrics will students need?
Watch YouTube videos by peers close to their age together. Talk about what was good and what wasn't good.
Allow messy recording time. Time where maybe lots of people are recording at once. Students make pick up background noise, but they have multiple opportunities to practice.
Start with recording a Reader's Theather or something where the script is already written.
Utilize video often to record reflections on what they have just learned. Students can gain confidence with video production here before they begin to create their own productions.
Create hands-on videos. Videos where peers point, show, and talk about things they've learned but don't have to present their faces.