Video as an instructional strategy

1. Differentiating Instruction Video as an instructional strategy Celeste Fenton, Ph.D. Brenda Watkins, M.A. Hillsborough Community College

2. Objectives Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify the educational benefits of video as an instructional strategy List several effective teaching practices to implement when utilizing video as an instructional tool Discuss the importance of a specific learning activity for utilizing video, that engages students and empowers faculty and students to assess if learning is taking place

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4. Preparation • Take one minute to reflect on the following: • State an assumption you have about learning with video. • Identify what informs that assumption (data, values, experience, etc.) • Partner with the person sitting next to you and share your assumption and reason(s).

5. Types of Instructional Video

6. Are you ready . . . . Grab your glasses and LET’s GO! Your virtual WebQuest is waiting for you!

7. Going on a Virtual WebQuest • Form three groups • Team 1: Factual Team 2: Demonstration Team 3: Case Story/Case Study • Read and select a role from the WebQuest handout • Embark on your virtual WebQuest • Within the scope of your role, visit several “websites” and select an informational card • Educate your group colleagues on what you have learned • Construct a teaching activity utilizing video as an instructional tool that considers the perspectives of all group roles • Share the teaching activity with the workshop

8. Review: Benefits • Instructional video is an enhancing and enriching resource • Focus • Introduce concept(s) • Clarity of concept(s) • Reinforce concept(s) • Historical perspective • Journeys into worlds that cannot otherwise be visited (i.e. nature, microscopic, space, abstract, etc.) • Experiences outside the class (museums, other countries, different cultures, etc.) • Enhances printed materials • Understanding of complex issues

9. Learning with Video • Should support learning objectives • Supporting activities are opportunities to evaluate student learning and assess students’ ability to critically reflect on, synthesize, and apply information. • Active learning assignments includes asking students to • 1) reflect on interesting and/or significant points • 2) summarize important concepts • 3) connect or apply concepts to real world or current events • Evaluation strategies can take many forms.

11. Where do I get the videos??? NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY.COM DISCOVERY.COM NASA BIOGRAHY.COM FOXNEWS MSN CNN YAHOO TEACHER TUBE YOUTUBE GOOGLE VIDEO MERLOT

12. What did you already know? What did you learn? What resources have you discovered? Questions?

13. 2 minutes to Instructional Glory

14. Video Sources Are kids different today because of digital media? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-PT3vEjw5g Body Planes and cavities http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=62555582b513ff9d0249&page=4&viewtype=&category Social Media http://www.weeklyinnovations.org/video/1115708:Video:16592 Medgar Evers – Biography http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=politicalfigures&bcpid=1740037438&bclid=8523178001&bctid=7432044001 40 Inspirational Speeches in two minutes http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4091988/11042227