Recently I received the feedback from the participants and while it was mostly positive, some of it was very negative. I fact I was struck by two of the comments I received.
It was pretty clear to me that I must have done a poor job of presenting. Math happens to be the place I've started and the place where I have made the most changes to the way I teach, but it's not the only place.
If you're curious about how I teach math I created a video for students and parents that explain it.
This is just the beginning:
When the students at my school were using their digital devices poorly I had my class create a video about how they shouldn't be used.
I'm very particular about how students colour maps for current events and geography assignments so I created a video about how to colour them correctly.
In history I used a video in order to introduce the research project where I had students creating video to teach their fellow classmates.
In Bible class I use video to introduce assignments.
In Science I create a lot of videos to show students how to use their tools properly. Every single lab has multiple videos teaching the students how to use things well and I like to do lots of labs.
I find it very powerful in Art class. I'm not particularly good at art, but the videos let me teach so much better. Here's an example of one of my art lessons. Even more powerfully I'm using other people's videos. My students created amazing eyes after watching and following along with this video.
I've even made use of it in PE class. My PE class are so short that I hate spending so much time explaining things so I made this video in order for them to play Frisbee Golf. This was one of my least successful ideas though, not because the video didn't work, but because students couldn't handle the idea of PE Homework!
Quite frankly, I'd like to go back and redo my entire presentation. I don't think I did a particularly good job this time.
Video is so powerful. I think it's a game changer in education.
But change in education is always difficult.
Video is so powerful. I think it's a game changer in education.
But change in education is always difficult.
Hi Alex,
ReplyDeleteVideo presentations can be very powerful as they allow review over and over again. But because of the reuse, it is valuable to put out a good quality video. I'm not saying it should be a smooth corporate presentation; it does show a human touch to have an error corrected, but the video and audio should be at least non distractive. It does not have to be a piece of art, but as a tool it should ideally be unnoticeable.
If you talk about failure, I would argue that posting a lesson with poor audio quality can be considered a failure.
Keep up the good work!
Chris