Welcome to Topic 4 of our Class! This topic is very important as it explores more deeply some practical guidelines for designing and creating effective multimedia learning materials which was has become even more important during the era of remote and blended learning that we have been living through. We will also get hands-on to create an interactive tutorial screencast video on your WordPress website.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how Multi-media Learning Theory can help us create more effective instructional videos and tutorials
- Create and edit an instructional screen captured video
- Edit your screen captured video by adding a title and credit graphics
- Edit your video by cutting something out of the middle of it and adding a transition
- Describe how you could incorporate screencasting or video to make a tutorial, or document your reflections
- Describe how you might be able to use screencasting or videos to help achieve the learning objectives for a class at the grade level you would like to teach at
- Make a YouTube video (or you uploaded video on your WordPress website) interactive using the open-source H5P tool
Class Time
Please listen to this excellent overview of Multimedia Design for Learning by my colleague Kevin Alexander (5 min)
The excellent video below by Dr. Ray Pastore video also provides several examples of how educators use multimedia well and not so well while reviewing several Multimedia Learning Principles. Please take care to note the following while you watch the video (17 min):
- Which multimedia principles did Dr. Ray Pastore not follow in his video about MML principles?
- Please take notes of the key points of the video with pen and paper as you watch it.
- Pausing the video can be helpful so that you don’t miss any key points as you make notes and related doodles or sketches.
Note: If you would like subtitles for the above video, please watch it on YouTube.
Watch his short overview video that demonstrates how to install the free Screencastify tool into either Chrome or Edge web browsers, and then the main features that make it a useful tool for teachers and professors alike! (2 min)
In this next video, we will explore Multimedia Learning Theory, instructional videos, screencasting, and flipped learning.
Videos as Learner Assignments?
A former 336 student shared a great example of using video as a class assignment. In their French language class for a group project, they made a mock horror film to help them learn body parts in French. One of the group members put on a hockey mask and slowly followed another student around a house, and the person kept fleeing the masked student, and they kept falling and hurting different parts of their bodies as they tried to escape. This gave them opportunities to say the body parts in French multiple times in each segment of the video. She said that the video was more funny than scary and that it was very effective in helping them learn body parts, and was a lot of fun making the video.
Other ideas for using videos as learner assignments:
- Make a video tour of a significant location
- On location videos with a green screen
- Present slides or photos with a screencast recording
- Record interviews with peers or Elders
- Create a book trailer
- Celebrate holidays or important events
- Recreate a moment in history
- Create a promotional video for your school or community
- Questions for your future self
- Create a “how-to” video for a skill
Here are two websites with more details about potential learner video assignments:
- https://ditchthattextbook.com/20-video-project-ideas-to-engage-students/
- https://biteable.com/blog/creative-video-project-ideas-for-students/
Hands-on Lab Time
Now we will get hands-on and you will make your own Screencast tutorial, edit your screencast and then make your screencast interactive using the H5P plugin on your OpenEd.ca WordPress blog. Let’s dive in!
Step 1 – Screencast recording (30 min)
- Note: You will need to use the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browser as Screencastify is a Chrome plugin. If you don’t have one of these browsers, either talk to Rich about your options, or download and install either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on your laptop.
- Select a website or web game that you are familiar with that you can demonstrate how to use in your screencast tutorial. For example, I’m a UnSplash.com fan so I’d open up UnSplash in preparation for making a screencast of how to use it.
- Work through this screencasting with ScreenCastify workshop, and create a 1-2 minute tutorial video for how to use the website you chose to demonstrate
Step 2 – Edit your Screencast (30 min)
- I would like everyone to develop at least a basic competency in Video editing as video editing is an important tool for creating multimedia learning objects. Here is an example of the screencast style of video I would like you to create, using your own screencast recording, right after you finish watching it (2 min):
- Edit the screencast video you just created using either the Mac or Windows tutorials depending on your laptop (please use the screencast video you just created and not the “miniature goat” video linked to in the tutorial).
- Following the instructions in the tutorial, either upload your screencast video to YouTube (and then embed it in your Blog), or upload your video directly to your Blog. You will eventually include your video as part of your weekly reflection.
Step 3 – Make your Screencast Interactive with H5P (30 min)
- Use the screencast tutorial video you just created, and use this H5P tutorial to turn it into an interactive on your blog: Interactive Videos with H5P
Learning Pod & Blog (30 min)
Write your Weekly blog post to document your learning in class and to document progress on your inquiries (incorporate audio, video, and screen video capture into your blog posts this week).
Include your H5P tutorial video and then use two or more blog prompts that follow it (or make your own critical evaluation this this topic):
- Include the screencast tutorial video you created in your blog post, including H5P interactivity.
- Reflect on whether you think including H5P tools would potentially be a useful tool for the subject area and grade level you hope to teach (or not).
- Describe how you could use video or audio editing as the assignment medium for the subject and grade level you will be teaching (if at all), and what you could do to make the assignment as engaging as possible.
- Describe what a flipped Flipped Classroom teaching model could look like at the grade level you’d like to teach along with some of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach for your grade level.
- Use the category, “topic-reflection“.
- Submit your blog post to the class BrightSpace website using the Topic 4 assignment page.
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