Tips on Using Instructional Videos for Teaching

Tips on Using Instructional Videos for Teaching

1. Students with special needs - For students with special needs, utilizing video technology or providing an instructional video may help them with a particular area of difficulty. For example, for children with serious health impairments that cause them to miss school frequently, video technology can record class sessions or be used as a specific instructional tool on how to complete an assignment, project, etc.
2. Tactile/kinesthetic learners - Creating an instrucational video is a hands-on activity. This appeals to kinesthetic learners because it allows them to create and work with their hands rather than sitting and listening. This may allow this type of learners to better understand the technology itself and accompanying in-class lecture material.
3. Multiple Intelligences - Creation of an instructional video or how-to video could address many, many topics, including how to play a piano, how to address a golf ball, how to find and class different types of flowers, etc. This appeals to the multiple intelligences of students, including bodily-kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic, naturalistic, etc.
4. Choice - As a final project or assessment, students could create an instructional video explaining a topic that has been discussed/learned about in class. For example, in a math course, students could prepare a how-to video on solving quadratic equation, or in a chemistry course, students could explain how to prepare a particular chemical solution. This allows students to demonstrate their knowledge without some of the anxiety of taking a test. It provides choice to the students.