Using Videos in your Classroom

Video engages viewers from multiple senses – sight and sound – and can generate excitement about a subject or concept. Students will enjoy the experience and retain more information from the class. As with any instructional technology, you want to use video to enhance teaching and learning. To effectively integrate video into your course, you must first determine a specific learning objective and create an activity that uses the video in support of that objective. Begin by asking yourself these questions:

  • What is it that you want your students to learn?
  • Is the video to introduce new concepts, review old ones, or extend something that happened in class? 
  • Is it to provoke thoughts and promote critical thinking, or is it to provide simple, factual information?

 

Here are just a few ideas of what you can do with video:

  1. Online Video Anchoring: Use online videos to anchor your instruction and make it come to life.
  2. Online Video Ender: Employ online videos to wrap up a class, activity, lecture, or other course event.
  3. On Demand Key Concept Reflections: Play a shared online video when appropriate to illustrate points, concepts, principles, or theories from the current unit, chapter, or lecture.
  4. Pause and Reflect: In a live class, you can play a portion of a video in YouTube or some other source and reflect on the content and then play another section and so on; continuous video, chat, and reflection.
  5. Online Class Previews and Discussion: Post useful online videos for students to watch prior to or after class.
  6. Cool Resource Provider Handouts: Ask students to sign up to be the person who finds and presents relevant online videos (i.e., the “cool resource provider”) after which the class can discuss or debate them.
  7. Anchor Creators: Require students to create their own videos to illustrate course concepts or ideas.
  8. Video Anchor Competitions: Assign students to find relevant videos for the week and send the list to the teacher for viewing and selecting (with class recognition or bonus points if used).
  9. Video Anchor Debates: Create a task where students are required to find YouTube or other online video content representing the pros and cons of a key class issue or topic which they discuss or debate.
  10. Anchor Creator Interviews: Require that students find YouTube videos relevant to course concepts and then interview the video creator or invite that person in for a class chat.

 

 

  • See more at: http://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/best-practice/using-video/why-use-video#sthash.psG2mqmz.dpuf