Creating a learning environment in which students are not only engaged, but excited about learning, is one of the most important challenges facing educators today. While there is no one simple solution, a combination of savvy teachers, enlightened administrators and the use of technology is showing real results.
Today’s digital native students love technology. They love the excitement of doing their own internet-based research and directing their own learning. And they love learning from and creating video
Many educators are now “flipping” their classrooms – offering video content to be viewed outside the classroom while working collaboratively with students during class to help ensure that all students truly understand the content.
Administrators there have found measurable improvements in the depth and breadth of learning over control groups, and both teachers and students are significantly more engaged in the process.
Many educators embrace the concept of flipping their classrooms, but lack the skills to create videos. Many feel that it will take a lot of time to learn, or worse yet, feel they can’t learn these new skills.
JDL Horizons, creator of the top K-12 media platform, EduVision, offers a course that enables teachers to learn video production skills they can put to use the very next day.
JDL’s Flipped Media Essentials class introduces the tools and methodologies used by today’s most effective teachers to flip their classrooms.
During the training, attendees gain hands-on experience with several rich-media applications that enable the gathering, manipulation and creation of high-quality video that teaches and communicates.
This course provides the comfort-level, workflow and experience required for participants to work with cutting-edge tools used to create both flipped lessons & flipped professional development. The one-day essentials course is for beginners but provides information, tips and hands- on experience that even seasoned video creators benefit from.
Key objectives for the course include:
- An introduction to the Flipped Classroom Model and tools
- Introduction to digital story-telling and lessons
- Image capture and manipulation
- Working with video, including capture, editing, producing and exporting video for access by students
JDL’s award-winning video team provides a fun atmosphere for learning. Even seasoned veterans say they leaned a great deal, and newbies are excited to start using the power of video to engage their students and substantially improve their learning outcomes. A win-win by any standard!
Students at a recent class share their thoughts about the value they received from learning how to use the power of video in their classrooms