May 03 2012
Video Ideas for my Online Class
Posted by Kathy Austin at Monday, April 23, 2012 9:56:14 PM PDT – I originally posted this to the Small Group Blog, then eventually figured out that I needed to post this to the Whole Class Blog. So . . . Here is what I came up with!
This was a rather frustrating exercise for me, but I did manage to find something useful. I searched the TED files and Merlot.org and came up empty handed. I hit paydirt in You Tube! And what did I find, but a TED lecture! Go figure. Anyway, I am always looking for better ways to deliver classroom content that is relevant to students. Since I am a teacher of teachers, this is particularly important for my students. They will need to take the methods I teach back to their own classrooms and make them meaningful to middle and high school students. The link I’ve included here is a fabulous way to turn education upside down and deliver learning to students in such a way as to meet them at their highly techno savvy level. This video by Salman Khan explains how educators might video tape a lesson for students to view at home, then have them do their homework in class where the teacher can help them! What a great idea!
Since the thematic unit I want to model involved different types of imprisonment using young adult literature, the link to British escape and elusive maneuvers will fit right in.
http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/results.do?highlight=27
I like the idea of assigning students the lecture content, maybe with an active learning activity to help use the content, and then use class time for students to work through questions, scenarios or other activities that use the content, and/or have students ask specific questions regarding what they did not understand from reading or viewing the lecture.
Or maybe a mix. Use the first half of class to work through questions from the previous lecture content and then use the second half to introduce the next lecture, then students view the content at home and prepare for the next class where they have to use the content, and repeat the cycle.
Great ideas, Marc. I think this inverted method might be something to consider for lab classes where there isn’t always enough time to finish the lab when a lecture is also a part of the daily lesson. OSU typically schedules separate lab times, but maybe an instructor could include some additional instruction via a vidoe lecture for homework prior to the lab to help engage students more fully and assist in understanding. This whole idea just sang for me.
Hi Kathy, I really like your idea and Marc’s modifications. I like the idea of introducing the laboratory out of the classroom, then having the in-class part be students working on the assignment together with the instructor immediately available to help. I also like the idea of having an additional exercise that gets tackled in the classroom based on the lecture content the students viewed outside of class. By the way, when I tried to watch the video embedded in your post, I got an error message saying “this video is currently unavailable.” Can anyone tell me what’s going on with that?
Enticing ideas for structuring a hybrid class at the university….or for future middle and high school instructors as Kathy mentions in her post. I love to see the way a few of my oldest daughter’s middle school teachers are already weaving technology options into their classroom exercises — although not to the extent yet that is described by Khan. I’ve learned about Storybird and Mixbook in the last year — and I will have to say, I’ve never seen my daughter so enthusiastic about creating book reports before!
Kathy’s embedded video shows one advantage of using a WordPress blog over a Bb discussion board, for those still thinking about that distinction. If you are going to have students sharing resources like this, the WordPress blog is much more appealing visually.
Jen — I tried the video and it worked for me. I wonder if you had a lapse of internet connectivity?