The return of Web Wandering Wednesdays brings a focus on educational online videos. Why use video in the classroom? Video provides a common experience for everyone in a class. It brings the subject to life and teachers report students understand the concepts better and retain the information longer. Best practices suggests that short clips work [...]
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This post explains a work around to posting audio files when you don’t have the space to host and stream the files. Back in the fall the US History teachers wanted to post student created audio files and videos quickly (24 hours turn around). We didn’t have a space to host these types of files for [...]
Guest Blogger: Marlin Parrack Alongside auditory and tactile/kinesthetic, visual learning styles are well represented among a majority of learners. Most students respond well to and are engaged by moving visual images. One way to reach this audience is through the use of web-based videos from a variety of sources, including the popular site YouTube. In [...]