Using different video applications within the classroom not only seem to hold students’ attention but also allow the students to learn at their own pace. This pace is either video to video, or slowing down/ rewinding a single video. Creating podcasts/ screen captures/ video lessons are also a great way to help students who may have accessibility or learning disabilities. For instance, being able to generate a text output for the video would help students who have audio issues.

An issue that arrises when dealing with video is assessment and understanding. Being able to guide the student towards big picture questions or making sure that they are in fact watching the video are issues when the educator is not present. A great tool that I have used is Edpuzzle (https://edpuzzle.com/). Edpuzzle allows the creator to add (non-skipable) questions throughout a video. Now a teacher may record themselves or others and as the student watches is prompted at certain points to respond to cues. Here is a great video that demonstrates how to create said question:

Allowing students to also use technology would tease out skills that they already have based off of social media. Students are surround by video applications such as TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Thus students already posses a degree of video skills. Allowing students to then film themselves or their computer screen as a form of presentation would bring lifestyle skills into the classroom.

In class we discussed using a green screen is also a great idea that I can see myself using. Having students be able to change their “environment” could reflect their material/ content. For instance being able to change the background to that of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin and give his point of view on an economic climate problem and then change the background to Apple’s Head office and give the point of view from that of Tim Cook. Thus using a green screen to change the background can “physically” place students in different situations and thus visually change their character/ point of view.

Also here is a really good website I found that generates a QR code for a website. I made this one that directs scanners to my blog!