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Instructional Video Guide

Best practices for creating pedagogically appropriate video

  • Guide
  • Video Types
    • Demonstrate/Show
      • Situation
      • How to do or how someone does a process
      • Apply theory or concept
    • Explain/Tell
      • Concept or theory in a lecture
      • By interviewing an expert
      • Timeline of Events
      • Tour or Field Trip
      • Lesson, Unit, Module Overview/Summary
    • Experience (Immersion)
      • Interactive Simulation
      • Role Play
    • Communicate/ Remediate
      • Provide Feedback
      • Clarify Confusing Information
      • Live Two-Way Q&A Captured for Use Later
      • Summary/Lesson or Unit Review (Dynamic)
    • Introduce/Orient
      • Course, lesson, module or unit
      • Faculty to students
      • Difficult topic
      • Any type of activity
      • Context for course, lesson, module, unit, concept
  • Best Practices
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Summary/Lesson or Unit Review (Dynamic)

This sub-type of video gives an overall summary of a subset of a course in response to what has occurred in that course iteration. It can be used at the end of a lesson to help students internalizes information from the lesson and to refocus on the objective for the lesson.

Low-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

This video recaps student work for the entire semester. The instructor does an excellent job of complementing students and saying how the class has positively impacted him. He then connects what was discussed and connections forged in this class with a way to extend communication beyond the class by creating a Twitter handle. The instructor segments topics and has clear breaks between different sections.

Resources Typically Used

Webcam and screen recording software.

Low-Investment Video Example (plays in a new window)

High-Investment

We currently do not have a high-investment example of this sub-type of video

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