Video is greatly underused in teaching

 Sharing here Seven Videos on the Effective Use of Video, a great post by Tony Bates about how video is greatly underused in Higher Education. I think it's not just HE, but education in general, and although there is a long tradition of using video content for language teaching, especially as sites such as Youtube offer a rich source of authentic language, I suspect there is a lot more that teachers could be doing with video.

One of the great features of videos posted on Youtube is the topicality and inventedness, and much of that comes from remixing content. The following video is one of the best recent examples of this:

Of the videos Tony Bates shares in his post, my favourite is the use of video in interactive simulation game. This is a game that asks students to make decisions during a health assessment home visit, aand is a fabulous example of how an educational decision-tree game that features video can be used for education. A bit complicated and probably beyond the ability of most teachers to design, but the possibilities are endless with this type of format:

It's definitely an idea/format I would like to explore.

How to create branching video

There are a number of posts that look helpful if you want to start

• How to create an interactive video on Youtube - A video with suggestions on how to create a simulation / choose your ownn adventure story with multiple videos (see video below).
• How can I make an interactive branching video?
• What is interactive video? (Best examples and software)
• Stornaway - a website allowing for more sophisticated interactive video to be created (free version available)

Longer version of the above video is here.

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