Video in the Classroom?

Video in teaching? Aren't we trying to stop kids from watching too much TV? This is more than merely watching TV. Video augmentation means using video to supplement your teaching.

This can be done several ways, such as:

1. Using professionallly-made video clips in the beginning of a lesson as an antecedent or anticipatory set (hook). This gives students a quick visual background knowledge before starting the lesson.
2. Using a teacher-created video of a lesson to allow for student review. Many times students get home and forget how to do the skills they've learned from the lesson that was taught earlier that day. If that lesson was video-recorded and posted on the teacher's website or a video posting site, students could review the lesson at home.
3. Using video as a class or homework assignment. Students could create a video presentation instead of a doing a book report. This will allow them to not only to summarize a story, but be creative and learn video production and editing skills.