Today we looked at how videos can effectively be used in a school classroom setting. We discussed the types of videos you’ll find in a classroom, such as ones made by teachers for their students, and ones made by students to demonstrate their learning. We also discussed how videos can be educational, as they allow for seeing what is otherwise impossible to see with the naked eye, such as slow motion footage and timelapses. Teachers can use videos with infographics to illustrate things in the form of computer animation, and GIFs to show short repeating videos that can be put in blog posts and websites. Videos are also good ways to keep information accessible to kids, mainly through their functions that allow pausing, going back, repeating, captions, and VR “virtual tour” capabilities. We also had a guest speaker in who allowed us time to experiment with a video editor of our choice. Below are some GIFs that we were shown that are examples of ones that may be good for classroom use: Received from Bored Panda.
One thing more I would have liked to learn in this class was ways we can implement video-making into our lessons as teachers. Which lessons would allow kids to best demonstrate their learning through a video? Are there privacy concerns surrounding this type of evaluation? Since some kids aren’t allowed to be on film, perhaps it could be an optional way to represent their learning in any given subject, rather than a mandatory one. I think videos are a great way to get the class engaged in a lesson!