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Recently I came upon this post about how to use video in the classroom. If you have always thought that it is too difficult and complicated and you need particularly special equipment – think again!
This fabulous post by contributor Ron Peck highlighting the work done by Ron, Becky Ellis and Greg Kulowiec at the 2011 NCSS Conference shows 3 great classroom tools for video.
I think by far my favourite is the choose your own adventure! So much simpler than it sounds, and I love the way the students have used it to tell a researched piece but allow the watcher to select their path – the boys in Video 2 had a bit of fun with it which was great to see because they were talking about the stages of a revolution but in a way that made it interesting and engaging.
Here is Greg Kulowiec’s intro video on CYOA.
This is the link to Greg’s blog that has the slideshow they used during the presentation that has more thorough information and suggestions.
Here is another post about creating the interactive links used in the choose your own adventure style video.
Have fun with video – you don’t need to be worried about complicated technology or equipment – most mobile phones have video cameras in them that can be used if you don’t have school resources.