THE VALUE OF VIDEO

Julia DaviesFaculty Social Sciences - Director Technology Enhanced

learningSchool of Education

Alternative ways of assessing – why?

■ Presenting knowledge and ideas to each other

■ Presenting ideas in ways that seem to reflect contemporary life

■ Presenting ideas through media often consumed by, but not produced by, students

■ Valuing expertise

■ Drawing out tacit knowledge

■ Developing expertise

■ Collaborative work

■ Bored of Turnitin

Issues

■ Time

■ Space

■ How to assess

■ What to assess

■ Copyright (etc)

■ Collaboration and Accountability

■ Developing teacher expertise

■ Sorry - photo removed for ethical reasons.

The teaching experience

■ Rewarding work

■ Time consuming – a steep learning curve

■ High quality work

■ Still a lot to learn – my teaching needs to improve

Evaluations – a summary

■ I LOVED IT! I LOVED THIS MODULE!!

■ Difficult but worth it.

■ Some group members are a pain.

Evaluations- New Form of Assessment

■ Loved how we could be creative – but also it taught us a lot about the subject.

■ I liked having a new way to show what we learned.

■ Although a bit nervous initially, I felt this form of assessment was different, interesting and a great opportunity to learn and be creative in a visual manner. Overall I loved it and the whole module was brilliant. I worked harder on this than on any other module.

■ It can be quite hard to get points across in a video, you have to do it in a different way. But I liked the challenge. Hard work.

■ A really daunting challenge – but once we worked out our ‘story’ we felt it was easier.

■ Much better than doing a boring essay.

Evaluations – video skills

■ The Diamond team are diamonds. Super helpful super Creative Media Team.

■ We are not now pro film makers but we have moved beyond the starting line.

■ Video editing needs to be taught to the whole group, not half.

■ It was very difficult doing the video, however it was really worthwhile in the end.

Evaluations – Group Work

■ Not keen working in groups. (1 student).

■ The only thing I would have liked more of was checking on how groups are working together. Otherwise fantastic and I want to do something like this again.

■ I felt this was a positive exercise as everybody brought their own strengths. I was not sure what to expect when I chose this module, but I am glad I did.

The Brief

■ Collaborate in groups to make a film (assessed as a group) 70% weighting

■ Write a reflection about the process; your group’s work; your critique of the film; evaluation of using film in academic context (30% weighting)

Elements of the process

Elements of the process

Mobile Devices and Education

Apologies – video link removed for ethical reasons.

The Power of the Pixel

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Selfies

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Online social network

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Next time

■ More preparation sessions in class

– Intervene earlier and give feedback

– Ensure no students are excluded

■ Presentations of ideas to the class at an earlier stage

■ Brief more carefully about providing critique within the film – stronger arguments

■ Don’t rely on your interviewees to do the work of argument

■ Stronger brief about including theory in the reflective writing

Thanks!

■ Further info – including possibility of sharing the video material – contact: j.a.davies@sheffield.ac.uk