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Secondary teachers tend to forget what a useful tool video can be in your lessons, even I do sometimes!  I’ve a selection of devices that record video but my students’ favourite device is my Flip camera.

In the past week three different groups have made use of video recording in their lessons.  Two of the groups videoed themselves – in the format of a news report on climate change, and an anti-drugs video.  Unfortunately I’m not able to show these videos outside of school but the third group however decided to video their experiments so that they could watch them again, and show them to pupils who were absent from the lesson.

This is the video they recorded (I just did the editing).

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a thousand pictures.  Learners who have special needs respond well to this medium, and it can be a tremendous motivator and confidence booster.

Staff in my school have finally become confident at using digital photography, but we spend a fortune printing out photographs to put in folders that no-body looks at.   Staff members who want to keep digital copies of photographs have to pass them to our technician who stores them on an encrypted drive (as per our data protection policy).  It’s taken 10 years to get staff members using email and digital photographs, so videos may require a few more years of training before adoption!

I’d be interested to hear from anyone, especially in the special education field, who uses digital media with their classes for any purpose.  Contact me or leave a comment below.