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- The Mini Studio / Video Best Practices
- Finding Value In Online Discussion
- Overcoming Barriers
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This presentation accompanies the "DOTS Best Practices for Using Video" session and is available in three formats:
You can view the streaming video version by pressing the play button above. | |
Alternatively, you can download the video as a M4V file. This version will play in iTunes, QuickTime and on iPods, iPhones and Apple TVs.
iTunes is a free download that will work on both Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. |
In this short presentation I presented fourteen suggestions for best practices. I also used this opportunity to test some hardware and software - the material presented on the projector was recorded with ScreenFlow, and a BT-1 Bluetooth Webcam was used to stream live video from the back of the room. The test did not go exactly to plan, I lost the feed from the BT-1 about 10 minutes into the presentation. I will continue to refine my testing to see if the BT-1 is suitable for faculty use.
Fourteen Suggestions
- Don’t Replicate the Mundane
- Don’t attempt to slavishly copy the classroom experience. Your learning objectives may be the same, but the way you achieve this must be different.
- Be aware of non-verbal communication.
- Brevity
- 7 minutes or less.
- Chunk Your Content
- Break content into discreet topics.
- Avoid Numbering
- The structure of your course content will change in the future. Plan for revisions and reorganization.
- Provide a Transcript
- Be aware of ADA (Americans with Disabilities)/Section 508 recommendations.
- Multiple Methods To View Video
- Technology fails. Build in contingency plans and redundancy.
- Streaming Vs. Download
- Be aware of of the advantages and disadvantages. Ideally you should provide content in both formats.
- Entwine Video with Assignment
- Are students able to complete the assignment without watching the video?
- Look For Feedback
Each week I ask six basic questions in my online and blended courses. The feedback helps me understand what I am doing right, and what I need to improve upon:
- What was the most useful thing that you learnt this week?
- What was the least useful thing that you learnt this week?
- Is there anything that you did not understand?
- Did you experience any technical difficulties?
- Is there anything you want to tell me?
- How useful to you were the videos?
- What was the most useful thing that you learnt this week?
- Archive Intelligently
- You will need to revise material in the future. Make sure you know where your production files are kept.
- Inspiration and Pedagogy: Richard E. Mayer
Richard Mayer has published widely, I would suggest reading Multimedia Learning: - Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia Learning (2nd ed). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Inspiration and Pedagogy: Edward Tufte
The four texts I would recommend are: - Inspiration and Pedagogy: Honda Accord Cog
- Inspiration and Pedagogy: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
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