Creating Videos for the Classroom

QUOTE: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
           By:Benjamin Franklin

 Teachers across the world are now getting involved by learning different techniques and methods that can be used  in order to transfer learning. These strategies are now been administered in different modes and patterns and is becoming more comfortable to the student teachers within the Teacher Training learning faculties.

The video you are seeing here is one that is created to speak about the different types of families that can be found around the world.It was created to capture and integrate knowledge in students who are in a grade one level class. This video includes pictures and definitions which will explain to the students in detail about different family types.Therefore it will help the students to identify what type of family they have along with  the persons that make up there family and other families around.

In creating this video it will help to cater to students different learning styles.The reason being is some students learn more when they have information that they can view with their eyes and interact with. Therefore this will help to grab students attention span quickly when they are viewing things from a screen and it will enhance more openly discussions in class and students participation.

Reflection about the piece. 

The piece that was created is a video that is geared towards the topic The Family for a Social Studies lesson.This piece will be used to test students knowledge about the different types of family. Students will get the opportunity to list who are the members that can be found in the families that we have in our world today. Once they would have done that they would watch the video that will highlight the different type of families that can be found and the persons who make up these families and what name is given to these different types of families.

The challenges that we faced in creating the piece was that the different slides were not been navigated properly according to how we wanted each half to be viewed. With continued persistence we managed to overcome the obstacle.This piece could have been improved if the actually persons in the movie could have identified themselves and speak about the things that will normally do as a family.

Podcast

What is a podcast?

A podcast is the creation and distribution of amateur radio on the web. It is an excellent means for students to create and contribute ideas to a larger conversation and audience.


A podcast is an essential teaching tool that will help teachers across the world to share ideas about topics they are teaching and the different effective teaching methods that they can use to help students learn. This type of tool will also help students who are preparing for exams to exercise their creative skills in interviewing persons on specific questions that will help to enlighten the productivity of their assignment.

In preparing this podcast my colleague and I sat down together and decided how we will  begin to create this podcast. From the options given we decided on creating a podcast on the issues we are currently facing at the Teacher Training Department since this situation is affecting all of us holistically at the institution.

Each person decided on what areas of the podcast that they were going to concentrate on and came up with their information on the issue. Once the information was gathered we met together as a group and worked together tireless for the good production of the podcast.

Two ways in which a podcast can be used in a classroom setting is by allowing students/teachers to voice their explanations on power point presentations presented to a listening audience and another way a podcast can be used in the classroom is by allowing students to produce creative, fun and energetic projects.