Introduction
Unlike a flipped classroom, in which the teacher works in isolation and has students prepare for the classroom on their own, Capturing the Classroom advises you to record your actual class periods when you’re with students (in class, virtually, or both), save the videos to a shared online platform, and add videos throughout each year to build a robust archive of resources so your students and colleagues can easily access them. I also recommend creating and archiving other types of instruction. For complex material or multistep projects, as an example, you can record brief tutorials outside of regular class to provide additional support for students. A video archive does not replace traditional instruction. It enhances and reinforces it. For example, if you traditionally provide written instructions for an assignment, add a hyperlink to a video in the document so students can access the information in both text and video format. Video instructions may be more appealing to auditory learners, as well as those students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism (Aken, 2020; Ellison & Brdar, 2019). Providing multiple modalities increases the likelihood that students will take in the information and process it.
Benefits for Students A video archive of classroom lessons can benefit students in a variety of ways. Access to videos can reduce the stress a student may feel when preparing for or returning from an absence. Because there are many types of videos that you can record and provide, you can custom fit content for any given situation. For example, a recording of a previous class of students discussing the same chapter of a book serves for an occasional or emergency absence for a student or teacher. On the other hand, if a student has an extended absence, you may choose to stream and record the current class so that the missing student can connect with both the material and the actual students in the class. If you want to ensure a missing student feels connected to the full classroom experience, for example, you can shoot videos of the full room rather than a close-up of yourself. There is more than one way to
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are absent or who utilize distance learning part- or full-time. Similar to a flipped classroom, where students watch recorded instruction on their own time and use classroom time to do assignments, labs, and other tasks with the teacher present, with this approach you can provide instructional videos for students and their support networks to watch on their own time to learn and better comprehend the material. Support networks can be anyone with a vested interest in helping a student: parents, guardians, tutors, aids, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and so on. It is easy to include anyone who wants to help by simply sharing a link.
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