When using video for instruction, remember who your audience is:

Here are a few economics instructional videos:

Take a few minutes right now to think about how you see yourself using video for teaching and learning.

Would you be creating the video?  If so, would you be in front of the camera, or use another technique (e.g. series of photo images with voiceover)?  Or would you have students create video projects? If so, what form would that take? Feel free to peruse the links below for ideas!! 

IDEAS

• Create video to show water as resource, post to DB for peer evaluation.
• Make students "specialists" of a topic, develop/discuss content through video instead of the traditional poster boards.
• Tips on first exams.
• Honors students create presentation and put in Bb for later review.
• Keep 5 minute limit, do a storyboard, video for directions, introductory information to start project.
• Provide extra resources for students to view for online classes.
• Directions for Honors students to designate their "honors" courses.
• Video field trip to a museum or other site, discuss the area they are in, video blogs, field work.
• Video for students to view later.
• Introduce concepts, short videos for hybrid classes, humanize the class.
• Quick videos to show stats concepts, review.
• How-to videos for class content.
• Topical videos using images. 

Sources for ideas on using video in the classroom:

• Article - 10 ways to use video for instruction
• 43 Interesting Ways to Use Pocket Video in the Classroom (Tom Barrett)
  

Considering a Student Video Project?

Here are a few useful resources to look at:

• Sample Student Video Project proposal form  (Lockport Township High School)
  
• Sample Video Project Rubric (University of Wisconsin - Stout)
  
• Developing a Rubric for Evaluating Media Projects (University of Texas - Austin)
  

Make your own instructional video using a FlipVideo camera (or other pocket camcorder, or your digital camera, or your cell phone, or your iPad...)!

• Find partner(s): one interviewer (camera person), one interviewee to create a (2 minute maximum) video; then switch roles so that each person has a recording.

Click here for specifics on editing your video with Windows Movie Maker.

Click here for specifics on editing your video with YouTube video editor.

• Remember that one of the nice things about YouTube is that you can copy the code and embed it in your Learning Management System (LMS) -- in our case, Blackboard. Reference sheet: Embed YouTube Video in Blackboard.

Show me that hardware again . . .?

• Click here for the FlipVideo site (these handy camcorders can be purchased at many other sites, as well).  As you may have heard, Cisco has shut down production of this product as of Spring 2011, but for the immediate future, Flip cameras will still be available -- here is a link from the makers about the future of Flip. Read the "12 Fabulous Flip Camera Alternatives" post on Michael Gorman's 21st Century Educational Technology & Learning blog. Kodak and Sony make some great pocket camcorders, and don't forget that you can use your own cellphone, digital camera, or iPod/iPad (as long as they are new enough to have a camera)! 

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