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Online Video Case Studies Conference
Atlanta, June 2000
Questions -- On line video case studies
1. Do
we want best practices or problem cases?
2. Real
vs. Staged videos?
3. Single
incidents vs. composites?
4. What
is the video equivalent of a composite?
5. When
do you use video vs. other media? When might video get in the way?
6. How
do you take advantage of the web?
7. How
do you best use on line discussion with video case studies?
8. Intellectual
property issues?
9. How
do you restrict access to website?
10. Accessibility issues?
What do we have to do? What should we do?
11. How do we capitalize on the work that has
already been done?
12. How can we create a common pool of quality
examples? (for example the materials from Vanderbilt?)
13. What kinds of contrasting cases should we
have?
14. How can we avoid surface mimicking of best
practices?
15. How do you know what people are paying
attention to in a video?
16. How small can the video frame be and still
be useful?
17. What are the ethical issues? (i.e., stereotyping, making folks look bad, embarrassing
situations, doing things wrong and thus looking bad, the only negative
segment is with a minority group member)
18. One way to overcome the embarrassment of someone (teacher) doing something wrong is to have a reflective component where the teacher comments on the activity and what went right and what went wrong.
Items from Robert Beck's session www.gse.uci.edu/cli
Electronic Portfolios (private, not on the web but write to RBECK@uci/edu for examples)
1. Embedded
assessment
2. Employment
3. Reflective
4. Cognitive benefits
Who is served? (teachers, preservice teachers -- parents, students, they are not only for teachers)
How do we determine what is exemplary? (panels, content specialists, research)
Is there an explanation of why this is best practice, do we step back and explain why we think this is best practice?
Which content is selected? (Why not do all, like a human genome project? Would it be useful)
All standards?
Which context provided? (is the purpose explained?)
How do we use these collaboratively? (use threaded discussion on line with student teachers assigned to use these)
How do we evaluate collaboration? (analysis of
conversations? Ask sudents what worked?)
Reading at home example -- video tapes that are sent
home to show parents how to read with their children.
Demonstrated one of three models.
"living rubrics" and
"interesting practices" vs. best practices
Examples of teaching algebra from the website. Demonstrated several of the available video clips.
Needs:
Examples using technology (Sound Print project
www.netfiles.org)
Secondary examples
Cooperative learning examples
Diane Demee-Benoit session diane@glef.org
(www.glef.org)
Distributed Learn & Live, Edutopia, Learn and
Live CD, Learn and Live User
Report, Case Methods: A Knowledge Brief on Effective Teaching, Using
Real-Life Classroom Narratives to Help Prepare Teachers - Far West
Laboratory Fall 1991.
References: these are the new ones, the others are on
the reference list at OVCS already
Introduction to Case methods Teaching by S. Wasserman, Teachers College Press;
Telling the Stories of Education
Next product will be on the web first and then VHS tapes, "Best of the web " Ms. Demee-Benoit reviewed the development of Learn and Live and it's evaluation. What folks liked and what they didn't.
What are the different formats and why were they developed and how they are (can be used), Influenced by Jacob Nielson, (2000 Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity) and what he advocates.
More regular additions of new information and
announcement of new content via email blasts.
Will still need video tapes and or CDs for the next 3-5 years.
Cases and case development www.digitaldivide.org video information -- http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/about.html#series
Crafting film clips:
interesting characters
compelling story
close-ups
camera angles
editing
sound - music, voice-over (use children and teachers
voices) etc.
include a clip with teacher
explaining how it got going
allow user to make choices -- create multiple ways and
let folks choose