Creating Video for Teachers and Trainers: Producing Professional Video with Amateur Equipment

Chapter 23

Using Video in Your Teaching and Training

Once you've produced your video, let's use it effectively for teaching and learning. In this book we have sometimes talked about incorporating video into a website. And that's certainly a valuable use of video. But at least as often we'll want to use the video as a stand-alone piece, as part of a PowerPoint presentation, or otherwise incorporated into the classroom or other teaching environment. We can also use our new video production skills and confidence to assign our students to produce videos or use video as a tool to document events or to provide a mechanism for coaching performance.

This chapter addresses these uses of video.

Stand-Alone Video

I'm using the term “stand-alone video” to ...