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SCoPE seminar: As video gets easier to record and publish, it's valuable to step back and ask ourselves a few questions: Why use video? What purpose does it serve, and what problems does it solve in the online classroom? How much video is enough? How long should clips be, and how many is too many? What accompanies video? What do we add or create to increase viewer engagement? When is security important? How do we balance accessibility and privacy? What questions do we ask of ourselves and our colleagues when choosing what to film, how to edit it, how to frame it and how to share it? Bring your questions, your ideas, and what you've read to the discussion. We won't find any definitive answers, but certainly some new scenarios and resources, and new questions to jump start discussions in our respective workplaces.

"Video is not being used enough in online learning in post-secondary education. When used it is often an afterthought or an 'extra', rather than an integral part of the design, or is used merely to replicate a classroom lecture, rather than exploiting the unique characteristics of video."

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

PresentationTube integrates a variety of presentation aids and synchronizes presenter's audio and video, PowerPoint slides, whiteboard, drawing board, and Web content.

Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.

Concise introduction to portfolio system designed and developed for use with elementary and secondary school students.

"online meeting platform . . . for realtime collaboration"

"Musings on the edtech frontier" (blog tagline)

This video was mentioned by Peter Rawsthorne in our webinar about Digital Badges

During this seminar we will be sharing and discussing a video series developed at Thompson Rivers University. These filmed scenarios aim to address the needs of educators and students to enhance intercultural competencies by providing a spring board for dialogue and reflection on best practices for intercultural learning environments.

"One gamer told an opponent he presumed to be Jewish that he wished Hitler had succeeded in his mission. Many exchanges involve talk of rape or exult over the atomic bombing of Japan. There are frequent slurs on homosexuals, Asians, Hispanics and women.\n\nSuch comments can be heard on all online video gaming systems, including PlayStation Network, Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft) and others." (para. 3-4).

"The focus of this Art of Teaching seminar will be Engaging Students in Inquiry Learning. Each week of this 3-week seminar will be launched with Art of Teaching: Engaging Students in Inquiry Learning videos and web conference in Elluminate. "