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[ProfessionalDevelopment 722] Re: A teacher-made professional development video library
Andrea Wilder
andreawilder at comcast.netSat Dec 23 10:21:26 EST 2006
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Fabulous idea.
Andrea
On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:12 PM, David Rosen wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> Suppose we had a free video library of 500 digital videos ( from 3
> minutes to 15 minutes each) of adult education classrooms. Suppose
> these were made and edited by adult education teachers and their
> colleagues (and students) using local digital video and editing
> equipment. Suppose some of these videos -- those that were
> successful illustrations of EFF content standards or state content
> standards or curriculum frameworks, for example -- were each awarded
> prizes of $500 by state professional development centers. Suppose
> these videos were online free, for example on Google, but also
> indexed in a searchable database so that teachers, administrators and
> professional developers could find good video examples -- in practice
> -- of a concept, standard, or teaching method they wanted to see.
> Concepts such as "integrating technology in the classroom,"
> "formative assessment," "standards-based numeracy," "project-based
> learning," "effective teaching in the ESOL multilevel classroom" and
> many others ,might be illustrated through actual video examples from
> practice.
>
> How do we get started with this?
>
> 1. Teachers need to follow Barry Burkett's example and make videos of
> their teaching and upload them to Google for others to see. At
> first, the quality may not be ideal, but quality can be achieved in
> time with better editing software, better mic-ing of sound, more
> cameras, more time to edit. Teachers can get good at making videos.
> They can then teach their students these skills, too. (Or maybe some
> students already have the video skills and can share them with the
> teacher!)
>
> 2. State literacy resource centers need to provide teachers with
> incentives to do this "project based" professional development. The
> incentive could be in the form of $500 mini-grants to rent or
> purchase equipment or software, or to pay for a teacher's time to
> make and edit the videos. The incentive could also be in the form of
> ($500) prizes for videos that were selected as exemplary, to be used
> in state professional development or curriculum standards work.
>
> 3. We need a database. Once we have it, we need reviewers who will
> look at and tag the videos so they can be found in the database using
> commonly used adult education terms.
>
> I would be interested in your thoughts about this idea. I would be
> even more interested to know if you, or teachers you know, are
> excited enough about this to get started, to make a video of
> classroom teaching and learning. If so, visit http://
> wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Google_videos for more information on
> how to get started and e-mail me about your interest in this idea.
>
> David J. Rosen
> djrosen at comcast.net
>
>
>
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