Initial Publication Date: September 12, 2014
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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