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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
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Support

For more assistance with planning your videos, contact your local Instructional Design or Multimedia specialist/office.

If you do not have access to those resources or do not know who to contact, please contact the Penn State Media Commons. The Media Commons is available to offer consultations on project ideas as well as resources and training for creating your own videos.

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If you have suggestions for substitutions of existing video examples, please use the form below to submit your example(s).

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