1. The Power of Quick Video
Using video to expand teaching and learning opportunities

2. Introductions
Please say your name and department.

3. Why Video? Differentiates instruction
Can provide greater emotional power to content
Helps frame instructions and explanations in a cogent narrative
Harnesses media outside of traditional education publishing channels
When properly edited for time, can deliver much more information than reading alone
Video, like text, is a useful medium to deliver instructional content

4. Types of Video
You can produce videos on your own or you can use existing videos on the web

5. Videos Produced by You Videos produced by you:
Talking head: use Tegrity or any other video capture tool to produce introductions or explanations of course materials
Worked Example: Use document cameras, annotation tools or screencapure tools (e.g. Jing, Screencast-o-matic, etc.) to provide demonstrations
Use quick and easy video capture tools to create your own videos

6. The “Talking Head” Applications:
Introduce course materials or the topic of study for the week
Explain a difficult concept
Share why you think the topic is meaningful
Edit for time
Recording a quick video of yourself can be a powerful way to connect with students

7. Screencapture/ Worked Example
Suggested Tools:
Document cameras
Recording using annotation tools
Screencapture tools: Tegrity, Jing, Screencast-o-matic
Provide a video demonstration of how to solve a problem or perform an operation

8. Videos Curated by You Videos curated by you:
Spur discussions: upload videos into VoiceThread to start multimedia discussions
Quiz for perceptions/comprehension: build questions into videos via Zaption
Take videos from the web to start discussions or build quizzes into them

9. Start a Discussion Applications:
Build discussion prompts around video content
Allows students to enter their comments at specific intervals within a video, raising questions or objections
Use VoiceThread to show a video and then start a multimedia discussion

10. Quiz Building Applications:
Allows you to embed your questions within the video to check for understanding or student perceptions
Forces the viewer to stop and think about what was just seen
Provides an opportunity to drive home important points
Use Zaption to build low- stakes quiz questions to check for comprehension and student impressions

11. Accessibility/ Fair Use
It is important to provide a transcript for videos
Fair Use:
Before utilizing videos that are available online, make sure applicable Fair Use criteria are met.
Using video brings with it accessibility and copyright issues