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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.
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
Keep your smartphone handy while you read. You will need it when you see the QR codes that appear throughout the book. The codes link to videos that pertain to the surrounding text, and there are endnotes showing the URLs themselves at the end of each chapter. Follow these steps to read the QR code and see the video. 1. Open your smartphone camera. 2. Aim your phone’s camera at the QR code (but don’t actually photograph it). The camera will show tiny yellow brackets around the corner of the square and a pop-up will prompt you to “Open in YouTube [or Google, or similar].” 3. Tap the prompt to go directly to the video.
New initiatives can feel overwhelming. Most teachers can relate to the good idea overload that goes along with the back-to-school in-service days in the fall. Creating videos and archiving does not mean a plunge into the icy depths of the new initiatives ocean. Take it as slowly as you need to, getting comfortable at a pace that suits you. Dip your toes or dive deep. There are a plethora of benefits for students—access during absences, personalized review speed, assessment preparation, and virtual learning. Teachers benefit too, through easy sharing and collaboration, and—a rare gift for teachers— by saving time. You might only want to dabble but then start to see real benefits and decide to go further. You might even begin having fun with it. Do as little or as much as suits your needs.
“Ellen I. Linnihan has found the missing link of instruction and learning. Capturing the Classroom clearly identifies steps and walks you through the process of creating a digital video library to strengthen education. Following the process is like cloning yourself and giving yourself instructional superpowers at the same time. Education will never be the same again after you read this book.”
—Steven A. Bollar
Educational Thought Leader and Author, Stand Tall Leadership: Stand Tall to Think Differently and Lead Successfully
“The pedagogical shifts and front-loading techniques in this book are amazing resources. I think the author is on the cusp of a major shift in education in trying to meet the diverse learning needs of students.”
—Alex Fangman
Principal, Summit View Academy, Independence, Kentucky
Author Ellen I. Linnihan has experienced firsthand how recording videos of classroom content lets teachers efficiently handle student learning needs and absences, review content and re-explain directions, teach communication skills, and improve instruction. In Capturing the Classroom: Creating Videos to Reach Students Anytime, she gives K–12 teachers guidance for creating a video archive that students can access whenever they need it. Gone will be the days of absent or struggling students missing key lectures, activities, or discussions. With its practical advice for creating engaging videos that serve various purposes and maintaining an up-todate video archive, Capturing the Classroom will help readers establish an equitable educational environment where all students learn and teachers save something they never have enough of—time. Readers will: • Understand how both students and teachers benefit from videos • Learn tips for recording in different kinds of classrooms, from elementary school to high school, from shop to English language arts • Explore how to align videos with syllabi, connect them with a calendar, and communicate with students, parents, and guardians to make video access easy • Create videos for varied purposes, including whole-class discussion, tutorial, assignment instruction, lecture, review, enrichment, and differentiated content • Use videos to work on professional growth and peer collaboration and receive tools to evaluate their videos ISBN 978-1-952812-05-7
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