Next steps for our growing community
Participants in the Spring 2014 virtual workshop on
Designing and Using Video in Undergraduate Geoscience Education identified several next steps and put together a wish-list of post-workshop goals. This list is not comprehensive - if you have an idea for a way to move the community forward, send a message to the Teach with Video email list:
teachwithvideo@serc.carleton.edu
Expand the existing collections
Add a video to the catalog »
Add an activity to the collection »
Develop new open-source shared video resources
These new videos should cover common, challenging topics that cross over a range of classes, such as:
- Compositional vs. mechanical Earth layers
- Structural three-point problems
- Fundamental physical phenomena that could be readily recorded with cell phone cameras
- Common misconceptions
Add to the existing web pages
Making Video
Making Video potential projects:
- Work with the Direct Measurement Videos project to develop a tutorial on how to create them.
- Add a section on making virtual field trip videos
- best practices, equipment, techniques, uses, and real examples
- Add tutorials on producing animations within video
- Add longer, detailed tutorials using Camtasia and other software/technology to generate short videos
- Add more information on video-recording technology, particularly cell phones, tablets, and other widely used devices
- Develop an effective method for workshopping a video (providing/receiving constructive criticism)
- Suggestions:
- Online forum? Blog?
- Create discipline-specific support groups that can be our first contact when having problems
- Note: The method developed during the workshop with uploads for video to SERC and feedback threads on each went unused and was replaced with the current Video Catalog
- Collaborate with other video developers to make a video together
- Suggestions:
- Host a face-to-face crash course in which participants are divided into groups to make videos together on a few chosen topics (common challenges or misconceptions?)
- Host a face-to-face video and design conference in which developers can wrestle with difficult questions on the spot as one works through making a video -- at conference's end you will have a solid product to use (3-5 minutes or less?)
- Host a virtual video-in-a-month workshop that meets once per week for about an hour
Using Video
Using Video potential projects
- Add more examples (case studies) of how instructors are using videos inside and outside the classroom
- Compile a list of 10-15 basic/fundamental introductory geoscience phenomena that can be demonstrated at home and recorded with a basic camera for or by students
Assessing Impacts
Assessing Impacts potential projects:
- Add examples of how we assess the impacts of geoscience-education videos and multimedia on student learning
- Summarize a few signature transformative assessments of the impacts of teaching methods on student learning
- broader than just geoscience or videos
- provided as examples of how to construct a truly impactful assessment
- Provide additional useful literature references
- Set up a test or data accumulation component where identical videos could be dispersed widely geographically and pre- and post-data are assessed
- Publish and share results
Engage our community
- Join and use the email list! Anyone may join and send messages to the Teach with Video email list:
teachwithvideo@serc.carleton.edu
- Add a topic to our ongoing Discussion Board
- Help find convenient online mediums for sharing information, such as WebEx, Facebook, Pinterest, Blogs, RSS feeds, and Google+
- Ensure the site allows for uploads and will be accessible by all
- Enlist some volunteers to provide oversight and help produce and add information! That's you!
- Initiate or participate in monthly, quarterly or bi-annual conference calls to share new ideas and update resource pages
- Host a meeting session at a national conference such as AGU or GSA
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