Hangouts on Air (HoA) to Create Instructional Videos
Design Pattern Tags : Networked Learning (social media), Video learning
Hangouts on Air (HoA) to Create Instructional Videos December 2015
Using Hangouts on Air (HoA) and Youtube to create and distribute instructional-videos and screen-recordings.
Rationale Naomi teaches her course online, preparing instructional videos for all the orientation, activities and tasks the students need to complete.
Naomi also offers video meeting tutorials each week, if the students require further help, or are required to present and discuss their assessment work. For the tutorials, Naomi maintains a room booking on campus for students to attend if they want. Some of her students come to that room each week and use it as a space to study and join weekly video tutorial meetings. Others study mostly online, and join the tutorials from other locations.
Some of her international students have expressed appreciation of the video format for playback and review. Others appreciate the flexibility of location, and maintaining the room on campus.
Learners/Context Naomi Herzog uses Google Hangouts on #HoA to prepare instructional videos, including screen recordings for her students to understand and complete their assessment tasks. Her recordings are organised and linked together in Youtube playlists, which are then embedded in the Blackboard site for the course. Naomi gains important insights from the Youtube view statistics, and is adjusting some of her videos into shorter, tighter clips accordingly.
Instructions/Processes Hangouts on Air is a feature of Google and Youtube. HoA is a normal video “hangout” or meeting, but with the added functionality of a live broadcast to a specified audience, with a recording left on the host’s Youtube channel. HoA and the recordings can be public, unlisted or restricted in access.
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