CEP810 SIG Project Video Technology

This is an article published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offering tips for tutors. Most of these could also be applied when creating videos to post online for students to use as well.

Salman Khan gives a presentation on TED about the benefits of Khan Academy being used in flipped classrooms.

Kari M Arfstrom discusses different ways that videos can be used in a flipped classroom setting instead of just using them as an introduction to the next day's lesson.

Lydia Leimbach offers 4 points that teachers trying to create their own videos for a flipped classroom should remember.

Hans Mundahl has 6 points to make about how to make sure that students are getting the most out of videos in a flipped classroom.

Catlin Tucker gives 5 strategies to help engage students in a flipped classroom.

This digital storytelling website is filled with every resource you can imagine. The website documents the research and success stories behind digital storytelling. It breaks the digital storytelling process into four steps, providing websites and program ideas to help you along. It helps you with grant writing, if you feel like you need additional resources to start digital storytelling in your classroom. What I especially appreciate, is the assortment of rubrics provided, so that you have a idea how to grade stories created by your students.

Rather than explaining how to create digital stories, this article gives tips to the classroom teacher, highlighting things to remember. These tips include the importance of trial and error, student accountability, and allowing students to push and lead you.

This webinar is the bible for Digital Story Telling. The webinar explains everything that you will need to create and publish your digital story. This includes how to upload content, what tools to use for editing, how to upload, and which media channels for which you may want to upload your video.

In this Youtube video, a teacher from Texas describes her journey through the digital storytelling process. She begins as a novice, who has to not only learn the skill herself, but teach it to her middle school students. She describes all of the benefits she sees with using it in her classroom.

This video explains digital storytelling in a short, concise way. It defines the elements of a digital story and would be a fantastic tool to use when introducing the concept to students or teachers.

In this article, the author follows three fourth grade students who struggle with writing. She documents the growth shown with these students, as well as other struggling writers. The author breaks the elements of story telling down. In addition, she also provides a paper story board, for which children can use to get the content of their story down. There are links provided to different tutorials, as well as sound, graphic, and music copyrights.

For a novice to digital storytelling, it takes time to weed out the good resources from the poor ones. This blog follows a virtual classroom teacher who teaches this specific technology. He lists his favorite storytelling technologies, even including resources that anyone could use while writing.

Catlin Tucker discusses how too often teachers that attempt to implement a flipped classroom feel that they need to make the videos themselves and fail to make use of the resources that are already available. She then discusses that watching a video after school is still passive learning like sitting in class listening to a lecture and that instead, teachers need to focus on what they make the students do with that knowledge.

Teachem is a way to create a lesson for students based on a set of videos. Teachers can add bookmarks for the video so that when students want to review on a certain topic in the video, they just need to click on the bookmark and it will jump right to the point in the video that discusses it. Teachers can also add questions that the students need to answer which may be useful in a flipped classroom as a way to ensure that students are watching the video.

This website has a large bank of resources for teachers. The videos and resources that I previewed seem to try to incorporate a variety of learning styles and thinking skills. Most of this site focuses on lessons and resources for teachers, but these could be alternative methods for re-teaching or tutoring students as well.

This website has a very large amount of math tutorials listed in an organized manner on almost anything mathematical. The tutorials are completed on a piece of paper with verbal instruction so they're not terribly fancy, but they are complete and easy to find and understand. I like this website because the tutorials are for secondary mathematics rather than elementary.

This short video explains how to upload a video to YouTube.

This is a collection of videos at multiple levels to re-teach/explain a variety of mathematical topics.

This is a great video to teach someone how to create videos using a document camera - created by a teacher!