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Ideas for blended learning - 9 - Recording demonstrations
Ideas for blended learning - 9 - Recording demonstrations

A method for adding demonstrations and other activities that happen in class into the course content.

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Written by Caitlin Foran
Updated over 8 months ago

As an author of a course, you can edit course content on the fly. This is great for adding demonstrations, experiments or debates into the actual course content. Adding things that happened in class into your online course is also a great way to integrate the two.

Example

Whenever you've got a demonstration or lively discussion that's worth capturing, spend a minute to set it up so you can record straight into your course. Simply:

  • Choose a device you want to record from - your phone, tablet, or laptop camera and get it in position to record (you could use a stand or a human).

  • As an author, head to the page in your course where you'd want to add the video

  • Select + video and choose Option 2: Record a video

  • When you're ready, Start recording and select Finish recording to stop.

  • Submit your video then republish the course so the updates go out to your learners.

Image showing example of video recording

This approach can also be useful if you ran out of time to cover something in class, missed something or want to clarify further. Just hop onto your device, record and publish.

Benefits

Adding a set of tasks into your online course allows...

  • Learners to see that the face-to-face class and online course aren't distinct entities, they're integrated. This can help encourage learners to engage more online.

  • Learners who can't make it to physical class to see what they missed (or should be working on).

  • Learners get to watch something over again to remind or relearn.

  • You to reuse that recording for the next class, saving you time.

Variations

  • You can also use other devices to record, normal camera etc. and then just upload the file.

  • Encourage learners to take some of their own videos of demonstrations and to upload them or try peer teaching (make sure you include a video task so they have the space to do this).

  • Not an author of the course you're facilitating? Upload the video to a hosting site then use our LTI to add it in.

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