Category: Video in education
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How educators are using free videos to flip their classroom
The flipped classroom method has students watch short videos of concepts at home and come to class the next day prepared with questions, and sometimes having completed a post-video quiz. This method can grab students’ attention and give class time back for student collaboration and beneficial conversations about the new lesson. Some educators have struggled…
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New Tools & Resources!
For Mobile Classrooms Readium – with this Chrome extension, it is now possible to read ePubs on a computer. Pixorial – use this a free, web-based video editing platform on any device. It also has an app and connects to Google Drive for easy storing, editing, and collaborating on videos. Croak.It – record up to…
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Getting started with recorded lectures
With the recent launch of VIUTube on our campus we have seen an increased interest in instructors who want to incorporate video into their blended or online courses. While VIUTube solves the issue of “where to put my video so that my students can access it“, it does not assist or help with the recording of the…
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Lecture Casting: Echo360 Presentation
On Thursday last week I attended a presentation from the folks at Echo360 about their range of lecture capture solutions. The presentation was hosted down at Camosun College in Victoria. We were delighted to be invited to attend by our colleagues at the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning at Camosun. From what I…