Video Recording for Education

           I have to give credit to YouTube for bring to my ears music that I want to listen to instantly, for making available the so many topics that could be a source of inspiration and that feed my curiosity and the countless lectures given by professors whom I otherwise not have been exposed to.

Lately used one of my art lesson plans about mandalas with seniors in high school.  I showed the students the so many examples of symmetrical patterns present in nature as well as architecture and to finalize examples of mandalas. 

My intention then was to show them about a YouTube video that unfortunately was blocked.

 The video was great since it shows how sound can be visible with the use of a scientific experiment called cymatics.

Most of the patterns created by sound frequencies resemble the ones of mandalas and could have been a great source of inspiration and getting them to be more curious about the world.

Just as how Bill Gates suggests that we can video record our lessons for professional development and to get a thorough feedback by our supervisors.

 I think that instead we can use video recording (as long as we have consent from the parents to do so) for at least the first two years of being brand new teachers, so that we can learn from our errors because we need time for experience. 

I believe that most of the recordings should be used by us privately and shared at our own discretion.

 We can save our videos titled as our lesson plans, so we can have an efficient access to them.  We can practice a daily editing of our videos to shorten their lengths and to eliminate irrelevant information but to review what happened, to have a better sense of time management in class.

If we plan to use the same lesson plan after a year we can go back to them after review the lessons, we can see how the students responded to the teaching strategies used and modify or eliminate what seemed to not work in the future updated lesson.

As we become more experience we can release videotapes for our students to access them at home to remember what was said in class or what they missed because of being absent to school, or as a classmate Raechel Eddy recommended in one of her blogs; we can provide a video recording of our lesson so substitutes could show them to our students during class.