Week 2 Journal

Question for the Week 2: 

How would you use video for your teaching and students' learning? If you can, think of some innovative ways to use video for instruction. 

My first thoughts are that video might be more useful for me in the area of documentation.  I can see video clips being useful for showing the parents at the end of the year how much the child has grown and developed.  I can also see a video at parent night would be a fun way to show parents what we do during the day in an early childhood environment (birth to 5 yrs old).

In a lesson environment, I am thinking how this would make a lesson I did a couple of years ago even stronger.  I was in a Christian environment at the time and teaching the children about Zacchaeus.  I made a tree on a poster with a cut out for the children's head to peek through.  The children climbed on a step stool and looked through the tree.  The rest of the class sang the Zaccheaus song and I took a picture of each child.  A video for the kids to watch afterwards would have been great for review time.  Watching the song be sung so many times would have gotten long, but maybe splicing all the individual pictures to the children singing the song once would have been great.  

I want to learn more about editing of videos.  I would use that skill on my personal blog when I video my children's programs and in my career working with children.