Absent Student Video from Wendy Chapman on Vimeo.
My video this week is a tongue in cheek intro to what I hope will be at least a weekly entry into a class blog that I will be adopting for the 2013- 2014 school year. I have a giant daily calendar that takes up my one and only white board in my class, I have a box that I place any daily work for each day of the week, and I spend a considerable amount of time explaining the use of these items to my students in case they miss class. Students will still come up to me at the start of class and ask "Did we do anything" when they miss. I can use this as an intro to any labs that I film for student makeup.
This is is the first time I actually used my students (family doesn't count) in the making of a video.I have sat for weeks watching other people in the class doing this and seeing how the students seem to enjoy the experience. I can now say that my first student inclusion video was fun for me and from what I observed, for my students also. I will be the first to admit that I have control issues and I truly admire those who are able give up that control and let the students own their learning, and it is for that reason that I plan to make the use of video making an assessment tool in my classroom. As I have already indicated in a previous blog, I want my students to create videos that will be the culminating product for a unit. I want this to be done at least twice in the year so that the students might be able to participate in some of the critiquing techniques that we used in this class and use those critiques like we did to improve their products. I think that going over some of the video making techniques would not be a waste of time, but in the interest of time in the science class I may make it part of the enrichment class that we teach in middle school. The communication of one or multiple science concepts in an effective manner would require students to develop a multi-step plan and then to execute that plan. A rubric as well as peer assessment could be used to evaluate the final products.
We all learned that their are many ways to plan and create a video. Details we didn't think about sometimes caused us to abandon ideas, but a team of videographers may have helped us to find solutions we could not find on our own or remember how to do techniques that we were shown in class. It may be a good idea for future classes to allow at least the possibility of collaboration on videos.
Finally I'm just wondering if any of us will be able to just watch a tv show or a movie ever again without noting the special shots like point of view or over the shoulder or use of transitions, etc... or more importantly will we be able to watch those presentations without annoying those around us as we point out what we've come to learn.
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