Adding video to your curriculum is a powerful tool to use with the 'net generation'. Video imagery grabs the student's attention, gets the instructor's point across, engages students in a class discussion, sparks their imagination, helps them see a new perspective, and paints the world for visual learners.
Today students are so attuned to visual imagery its natural to use images to enhance your curriculum. Use video across the curriculum in traditional classrooms or upload clips to your online classes.
Video also works well for modeling. For example, if there is a procedure you need to model such as a 'search and seizure' procedure for a criminal justice course, video would be a great way to exhibit the procedure.
What about modeling in nursing for the proper method to handle a bed-ridden patient or for education courses where a student teacher needs to see how to properly handle crisis' situations? The possibilties for videos in education is endless.
Check out eSchool News online: "Visual Learning" for a collection of visual resources.
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