There are some absolutely terrific videos available on the World Wide Web that can be used for educational purposes across key learning areas. Their multimodality allows information to be presented to students in an interesting and engaging way. The Draft Australian Curriculum places a focus on the need to incorporate a range of multimodal texts in the curriculum and videos fit this description perfectly. Visual, textual, audio and spatial elements all contribute to the meaning making by the student.
Videos can be used to enhance websites, blogs and LMS. Students can also film and edit their own videos to present knowledge and learning to a wider audience. Videos are easy to locate on the internet, but safety precautions would have to be set in place for students viewing them as it is likely that some video files may contain inappropriate content.
Here is an example of an educational video that could be used to enhance student knowledge of clouds.
Hi Kellie, thanks for all your great posts in your E-Learning Blog. I have really enjoyed reading them. They are both useful and inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great YouTube clip! I can imagine it captivating the attention of all my Year 2 ELP2 class.
Catherine van Moolenbroek
Hi Catherine
ReplyDeleteI am glad you have found my posts inspiring, that is one of the great things about collaborative online learning.
Yes this is a lovely video, it took some searching to find. I wanted one that was informative, but not boring. You can spend so much time searching, I've decided that im going to start sending great videos to my 'favourites' as I find them, then hopefully by the time I am teaching I won't have to go looking everywhere for them when I need them.
Kellie
Hi Kellie, yes I have noticed that it does take a long time to find just the right one. That is a great idea to send great videos to 'favourites'. I will be using that idea in the future.
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Catherine
Heres a better Idea: Download them. There are quite a few programs that do it (or claim to) but I prefer websites such as savid.com
ReplyDeleteThis website allows you to download Youtube clips straight to your hard drive in various formats. the most common is mp4. To play this file type effectively I suggest you download the Quicktime Player (Its really Good - I prefer it)