I am horrible at editing videos. I have students in my class that are better at video editing than I am. I can, however, record videos on my nifty iPad and then upload them to youtube to use with instruction. I have done this once this year since acquiring my iPad from Santa Claus.
My students chose topics from previous standards that they have learned in math this year and then I copied the pacing guide with all of the teacher's notes on it and gave it to them. They took about an hour writing scripts and making sure they had a good example problem to solve. One at a time students finished their scripts and then came into the hall with me the next day to record their video mini-lessons.
They turned out to be really good! I was really proud of them but I have a lot of ideas on how to make these types of videos even better. It would be nice to add music and maybe even have kids prepare some sort of powerpoint or story board with their practice problem on to incorporate into the video.
The to-do list continues to grow on things I want to learn how to do...funny how this blog has turned from things that I am really good at to things that I have no idea how to do!
What a great way to use video in the classroom. I am horrible at video editing too but I hope to get better. A question- did you have the parents permission to post to youtube? I feel like a lot of my parents wouldn't sign off on that so I'm wondering if/how you sold them on the idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks girl! No, I didn't have parent permission but my youtube account is completely private. The only person that can view the videos is ME! So being able to automatically upload the videos from my iPad and then pull up youtube on my SMARTboard is super easy!
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