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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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Lesson, Unit, Module Overview/Summary

This video sub-type previews course concepts that will be covered in the upcoming lessons. It provides a summary or recap of key points that were covered in the lessons. It can be used to engage students attention and focus students thoughts on what will be covered.

Low-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

This video is effective because it highlights what will be covered in the course, places the instructor in the history of geological processes, and talks about how that history will inform the future.

Resources Typically Used

Video camera, microphone and video editing software.

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

High-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

The effective pedagogy in this video discusses previous lessons that connect to this lesson to connect to prior knowledge, provides a picture for theoretically difficult concepts, and provides historical examples of the geographical change.

Resources Typically Used

Professional studio, green screen, video camera, lavaliere microphone and video editing software.

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

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