By: Katie
This is a great article! Can even be useful in PE!
By: Videolicious | PLEASE DO NOT CALL ME MADAME!
[…] assignment and evaluated. As stated in John Orlando’s (PhD, Teaching with Technology) blog, Ask Your Students to Create Videos to Demonstrate Learning, while traditional writing assignments are appropriate for many types of assessments, there is no […]
By: Mary Lee
For video projects I find that amost any digital camera has video these days. The cameras also produce .avi which does not have to be converted when inserted into Windows MovieMaker. I also download the "old" MovieMaker 2.6 as that is more student-friendly than the newer MovieMaker Live.
One project that I have used with foreign language students (this can be morphed into any interview type movie) is for the French pen pals of the American students to interview someone who was alive during World War II. The American students send the questions while the French students do the actual video and interview. I then put the interview into VoiceThread and provide instructions (guidance) on what comments I want the American students to make...in French, of course. Using Bloom's Taxonomy as a guideline I ask which question they thought to be most interesting and why. A second question is "If you could ask one more question in this interview, what would it be?" The application of critical thinking and analysis to the project takes it up one more notch.
By: Ricardo
Good Articles, i'll put in action with my students.
thanks, good way to get on my students deep learning.
regards,
By: John
Thanks for the comments Mike.
It sounds like I should be asking you for your experience.
I've learned that you need to give students plenty of time to shoot and edit the video. We think that because students are "digital natives" they take to any technology quickly, but their understanding is narrow and deep. They understand many things well, like texting, but they are not fluent in video editing. So it takes some time. I've also learned that sound and lighting is critical to a video in that poor sound or lighting can kill a video. Finally, a simple flip cam--which for some reason they do not sell anymore, takes better video with better sound than cheaper camcorders because it shoots in high definition.
I know that this is short, but the topic is more a whole class. Maybe I'll create something.
Thanks,
John
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By: Mike Griffiths
Good to read this. I started the use of asynchronous video as a core method in learning both from students to teacher, from students to students, and from teachers back to students at BYU Provo in 2008 and it became the topic of my dissertation. I then came to BYU Hawaii and created the online program based on the principle of asynchronous video.
I don't read about many others interested in this method so it was good to read your blog.
I would be interested to hear more about your experience with student videos. We have students in 70 countries all seeing and hearing each other by sending and receiving videos in class discussions and assignments. I find that I can tell how much a student has learned much better in a video response than in a written response.