Week 15

Using video and Audio in the online class supports and enhances the experience of the learner. The difficult task to accomplish is to either create, or find a video or audio piece that can be recognized as being relevant to the topic. In a course I taught, I requested students to search Eric

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and/or youtube and youtube education, for sources that pertained to the topic. The idea was to run a discussion session around the research. It did not really spark a true class discussion and two of the thirteen students specifically noted the weekly forum to be irrelevant.

My course is starting again in April and I have decided to flip the stile. Rather than ask students right off the bat to research topics I decided to build the first assignments video. then have students discuss and  find their own sources online. The sources, can help them learn skills they intend to use with their students in the classroom or private practice (educational therapist).

With Claudia Magalhaes we built an answer to the class discussion by building a video with example for a ninth grade Geometry class. 

We used Screencast-o-matic and skype video (my son called me so the image would come up on the screen and then set the size from his computer. Any other way to make a small image of yourself on a mac book pro?