Session1: VideoScribe in learning

What’s the most impressive learning technology/learning tool you have experienced so far?

VideoScribe !

Assignment：

Ronald (Create the Introduction video & Demonstrate how to use this tool)

Fan (Advantages for teachers)

Angel (Advantages for students & Make the slides)

Nancy (Disadvantages)

Frances (Suggestions)

Introduction:

https://drive.google.com/a/connect.hku.hk/file/d/0B-LMLrVH2e-WYUZWRkxuMjMta2c/view?usp=sharing

Advantages:

For teachers:

       1. Guide and engage learners
       2. Explain complex concepts better
       3. Connect the audience emotionally
       4. Other advantages:

• Easy and fun to use
• Royalty-free
• Various of icons 

For students:

       [As learning resources]

1. Promoting learning

               Paying attention to the video

           -> Getting interested in the learning material

           -> Easily understanding the content 

           ->Getting motivated.

     2. Better memorization

     3. Support fragmentation learning and distant learning

     [As a homework for students]

1. Reinforce learning
2. Encourage innovation
3. Bring confidence to students

Disadvantages:

1. Not free
2. Spend much time, especially for new users
3. Not suitable for a long video
4. Difficult to realize the simultaneous of audio and video

Suggestions:

1. Keep it simple; the setting must be clear and logical.
2. Make it clear; make it clear who you are, what you’re there to say, selective about what information you include.
3. Keep it short; 1 or 2 minutes long is most effective at keeping students engaged.
4. Make it memorable; combining audio and visual media, this can draw students into processing ideas deeply. They love scribing and will make their own videos within minutes.  Students will use it for homework or in class to reinforce what they have learnt.
5. Speak confidently; if you want students to get on board with your story, you need to speak confidently.  Make sure that the language you choose is positive and inspiring, not accidentally negative. For example, ‘this video will make learning much easy!' is far more inspiring than ‘this video will make learning less difficult!’. 
6. Break complex concepts into understandable chunks; it can draw students into processing ideas deeply, they will love to listen to what you have to talking about  and will never look at that boring subject matter the same again.
7. Time your elements; sure to think about the time your elements are set to draw at. In order to have a good work, we’d suggest breaking the long text element into 2 or 3 smaller elements. In some cases, very large blocks of text may cause problems.

References:

1. http://www.videoscribe.com
2. 杨一捷, 张新明, & YANG Yi-jie;ZHANG Xin-ming;College of Education Science, Anhui Normal University. (2016). 手绘动画制作工具——VideoScribe在微课视频制作中的应用 - Put the Use of a Hand-drawn Animation Tool——Video Scribe in the Application of Micro Lesson Video Production. 现代教育技术, 26(04), 93-98.

Files:

Doc : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rDnB5ubcv1RVBvKCQq9qxhWWDGXnf_nVSrq87xJ9LXw/edit?usp=sharing

Slides: href="https://docs.google.com/a/connect.hku.hk/presentation/d/11HhsTIlRNCJZrD4bFrZw1G_7EHZl4dU7NL49ejdE8Uk/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/connect.hku.hk/presentation/d/11HhsTIlRNCJZrD4bFrZw1G_7EHZl4dU7NL49ejdE8Uk/edit?usp=sharing