Saturday, February 8, 2014

Week 4 - Instructional Video

Below is an instructional video I created on the Five Themes of Geography. This video would be best suited for a 6th grade Social Studies class.


Assignment Title: Instructional Video
Uses in the Classroom: Instructional videos can greatly increase your teaching repertoire if used correctly. By using video clips in your teaching, you can allow visual and auditory learners to better receive your content versus the dreaded lecture they would have to sit through. Also, showing instructional videos can be a change of pace for the students. They tend to like watching video clips and have a lot of experience with it already!
A teacher can use instructional video to showcase faraway places, as well as people and cultures that otherwise the students would not experience. Instructional videos can also be a great way to introduce a topic or to summarize main ideas at the end of a unit. Students themselves can utilize software to create their own instructional videos to showcase what they have learned.
Issues to Consider: When using instructional videos in your classroom it is important to have a backup plan. Just in case you run into technical problems, have a plan to cover the same material to your students that the video would have. When selecting which instructional videos to include in class, make sure that you review the WHOLE clip. You do not want to share something that may be inappropriate to your students. Also, make sure that you can access the clip from your school, as some schools block certain sites (i.e. YouTube).

Copyright: The above video is the original work of the author of this blog. Included in this video are the following images and audio used properly under their Creative Commons license:

eldienneproductions – SoundCloud – 5 January 2012



Earth – Kevin Gill – June 2, 2012 – Flickr




Great Lakes – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – August 28, 2010




Mountain Cluster – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – February 6, 2014




City Lights – Ghassan Tabet – March 19, 2005 – Flickr




Country – Riccardo Cuppini – January 1, 2010 – Flickr




Snow Road – Brad Smith – January 3, 2007 – Flickr




Desert – Sboyd – September 28, 2013 – Flickr




Highway – Lauri Kolehmainen – July 17, 2006 – Flickr




Bridge – Cindy Cornett Seigle – August 22, 2009 – Flickr




Ready for Winter – Paul Mayne – November 25, 2005 – Flickr




Hoover Dam – eGuide Travel – December 10, 1010 – Flickr




Plane – Steven Conry – July 17, 2009 – Flickr




Farm – UGA College of Ag – July 13, 2012 – Flickr




Tvstation – circulating – March 8, 2009 - Flickr




School – arbyreed – November 2, 2011 – Flickr



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