Video can enhance an online class in many ways. Here are 7 simple suggestions.

1. Why Use Video in an
Online Class
simple techniques for using video to enhance
personalization and interaction
ANVILL 2 Course System
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2. The Main Reason: Context
Rationale:
Video provides context to
an online course: it can
fill important gaps in
meaning, personalities,
and cultural situations.
This short presentation
looks at 7 ways you
might want to use video
in your online course.
Quicktime Player Pro: A Live Version
of What You’re Teaching Online
Wednesday, July 10, 13

3. Personalization-Inserting
Yourself and Your Learners
Personalization:
Besides their
communicative/
linguistic value, your
voice, your face, or better
yet, both, add
“familiarity” “trust”
and “ clarity”.
ANVILL 1-TCast Feature
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4. Amplified Learning:
Understanding and Building
There’s more to do and
more ways to
understand and create
when you have multiple
ways of accessing
content.
iMove HD Editing Exercise
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5. Amplified Learning: Narration
Any video editor lets
you replace one sound
track with another, so,
for example, can you
describe what’s going on
in this conversation?
iMove HD Sound Editing Exercise: Replace the Audio Track
Wednesday, July 10, 13

6. Amplified Learning:
Note-taking and Research
Any video editor lets
you cut pieces from a
movie and re-use them,
e.g.:
Find 2 instances where
Healey talks about
“constraints” in online
learning. Upload them
to ANVILL and
summarize.
Simple Editing: The “trim” command
in Quicktime X.
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7. Amplified Learning:
“Chalk Talks”, Tutorials
ScreenCasts, etc.
If you’re dedicated, you
can become famous (and
maybe pay the rent) by
posting “small snippets of
learning” online.
Or maybe just help your
students and others.
Shoot, edit, upload to YouTube
(iMovie, Windows Movie Maker,
etc.
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8. Evidence of Learning:
Social Media & “Can-Dos”
Whether it’s a simple
assignment, like a
Voiceboard message, or a
complex role-play
submitted as part of a
“Can-Do” to
LinguaFolio, video is
compelling evidence
(that can be shared). LinguaFolio: An example of an ePortfolio
Wednesday, July 10, 13

9. More Questions?
You can always post
them to the Help Desk
discussion board!
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