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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