Starring role in shaky hands production!
Tonight I got a taste of be a leading man in a brief video to highlight the use of multimedia in teaching, this particular example was for YouTube and was uploaded to my personal YouTube page. it was a brief tour of the Ealing Campus and although it was fun to be on video it takes a bit of getting used to especially when you hear your voice. (Be prepared to cringe). However, as they say the show must go on! The camera work from BinzyG (It's her directors name) was shoddy but you you got to work with what you have got. Soooooo....... we did and it was alright, got a few funny looks especially from security but we achieved our objective. Good team work and co-operation was essential to this and we acheived our aims relatively quickly. A mentioned previously it does take a little bit of getting used to hearing you voice on camera but as an educator you need to take that plunge and if the students laugh at it then they have still probably engaged with the content and will be discussing how they could do better, so put them to the test.
Video's are a very good method of assessment which allows a detailed level of feedback to be applied as reviews can keep occurring from a number of sources. However, the key to a video is the passion when discussing the subject and to pretend you delivering this to an audience. Having students create their own will allow them ownership of an assignment and tap into their creative skills. The only negative could be the potential comments that can happen with uploading videos to the internet, however if you make it unlisted it can not be searched for and therefore only shared with who you want, likewise videos made by students.
Below is the directors cut, unedited and unlimited!
Also during the session we looked at audio, such as podcast through the medium of audioboo, again this is quite a innovative method and could be fantastically applied. The major barriers are equipment, having devices that have microphones is necessary. However having devices like ipod touches, smart phones and tablets will allow easy recording and uploading, in fact from recording 3 minutes and then uploading it has probably taken a total of 6 minutes pretty instantaneous. That is the only other issue that sometimes 3 minutes may not be long enough and a series of Boos will need to be recorded. Despite this it is a very good method that students would be able to engage with easy and could be used in assessment methods, e.g. vivas.
Below the video should be the auidoboo I have created.
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