Introduction
About This Book Once you have decided to embark on recording yourself teaching, the book will lead you through how to get started, including skill development, accessing technology, and classroom logistics, as well as how to engage your students in the recording and accessing process. I will walk you through the steps of building a video archive. Along the way, you will find helpful resources such as reproducibles to use in your classroom and tips and testimonials to encourage you every step of the way. Your archive will grow as you go, and I will help you recognize recording opportunities that capture your practice for future reference. • Chapter 1 explores the various types of videos you may create and their benefits, including but not limited to whole-class discussion, enhancement tutorials, and enrichment lessons. • Chapter 2 helps you get started for the school year, with a to-do checklist of video setup and communication considerations, as well as considerations for future archives. • Chapter 3 helps you build confidence in yourself and in your students so that speaking in front of a video camera works better for everyone. Chapters will include the following. • Reproducibles for use in your own practice • Try This for practical tasks that will help you establish your video archive • Teacher Tips to improve the process, save you time, and improve student learning and outcomes • Pandemic Perspective insights for the teacher who wants to learn and grow from the COVID-19 lessons • Student Voices and Teacher Voices from the 2020–2021 school year to provide insight, directly from students and teachers who have used videos, about the advantages they have experienced
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Check regularly to see if students know how to access videos. Provide a link to your video-hosting website on the whiteboard and on your LMS, and consider providing a QR code. (There are free generators, such as QR Code Generator at www.qr-code-generator.com, online.) For elementary and middle school students, provide parents and guardians a physical copy of instructions with the URL. If you send the instructions via email, include a direct link to your video-hosting website.
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