The impact of video is increased when learner’s attention is focused on critical aspects of the performance. This is enhanced by providing learners feedback or asking learners to analyze works of their own or their peers. Video annotation tools can facilitate this process. This session looks at ways these free or inexpensive tools can be used to analyze video and lead to improved learning.
The presentation introduces the idea of video annotation, some common tools, possible uses, and lessons learned as I have helped people use these tools over the past several years...
Tools that facilitate text, audio, video, and/or drawings to annotate a video. Usually with some relationship to the timeline of the video.
Cognitive Apprenticeship
To teach evaluation
Use the annotations to show details of good performance that learners might otherwise miss on their own
Instead of straight feedback, ask questions and ask students to respond…
Student and instructors like timeline comments (and in the case of some tools drawing on the screen, etc.)
Allowed for giving feedback to large numbers
Permitted students to perform out of class time
Flexibility in time for supervisions
Etc.
The tools facilitates pointing out good and bad things going on, but you have to be conscientious about giving students ideas for how to move forward. This seems to happen more naturally when people debrief in person. So how can you build that into your processes without losing the conveniences of the tool.
Some loved it
Some saw it as inconsistent
Some saw it as mean spirited
Students weren’t seeing feedback
Instructors sometimes didn’t know when they had stuff to review
Instructors’ feedback was viewed before they wanted students to see it…
Live reviewers were perceived as distracting or distracted
Student being taught by student teachers were sometimes distracted by video recording
Wifi or hardwired connections
What Cameras are devices will be used to capture video
Record direct to server or uploads
What are your upload limits or file size limitations?
If people don’t know how to use the tool, how they will use the features, they may not get as much out of it…
Just given a list of criteria, students don’t necessarily know how to distinguish between good and poor performance