At our second meeting Janel and I narrowed in on who would dive deeper into what material.  Janel had researched some very interesting ideas dealing with assessment using video. One idea is that teachers could encourage students to create “how to” videos in order to assess what information they absorbed from a unit.  He also told me about how and english teacher could get students to critically analyze movie trailers.

I had done a lot of research on how to incorporate youtube through getting students to post educational content on the website. I found that this was not as easy as I had hoped. In fact if a teacher wanted to facilitate this as an activity they would need a lot of action taken by  parents as kids under the age of 13 need their youtube account to be maintained by a guardian.

So I moved on to research a variety of other ways video is used in the class. I found a number of ideas on how students can create video themselves and how teachers can use video to show creative, worldly content.

I am looking forward  to presenting our finding in our power point presentation.