Evaluating a "found" video
In keeping with my professional development series on programming (see week 2), the video I have selected is a 1 hour and 15-minute video of a professional development seminar giving by Microsoft in 2014. Because I am typically providing professional development at the university or at a business the internet is generally unrestricted and I am able to do whatever I need to do. The topic of my video has to do with software engineering best practices and is something I usually reference as a “further study” item so that those individuals who wish to learn more can engage the material. Sometimes a group of engineers will watch this video together and then we will take the best practices and apply them to code written by a member of the team as a hands-on training exercise.This video uses many of Mayer’s design principals. It follows the redundancy principle in that the speaker is showing his source code on the screen while he talks. You get to see him code out the examples making it an effective way to learn the material (Example: here). It follows the voice principle in that an actual person is presenting the material and you hear his voice through the whole clip.
One area that could be improved upon is the Image Principle. It would really enhance the experience if the presenter had a video feed of himself in the corner of the slides or while he isn’t showing his screen. This could help the learning experience.
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Professional Development/Classroom
The video below is a tutorial on how to create a simple mobile application which gives you the temperature for a given zip code. This video can be used by anyone with a basic web development skillset and a windows computer.
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Student is able to create a simple mobile application which can check the temperature of a given zip code.
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Ionic Framework - Beginner Tutorial By Eric Whitmore
Application
Like the “found video”, I am applying the redundancy principle in that I am showing slides and source code as I talk through them. I am also using the Coherence Principle in my video in that my slides are very clean and clear. There isn’t a lot of miscellaneous information on them. I also adhere to the Pre-training Principle by providing tutorial prerequisite software, which is free, and I list prerequisite skills which are required and how to learn them. I think tutorials like this help in the classroom and professional setting because it can be done with people with a minimum skillset and all the tools used are free.Reflection
I don’t think that my thinking has changed but one area for
improvement would be to accommodate the Image Principle more by including a
video capture on my tutorials. One technology
that I have used in the past that does a good job of this is Panopto. Panopto does a screen capture, audio capture
and video capture via your computer’s webcam.
Then the software lets to change the size of the video, or screen
capture based on your needs. It is a
really engaging way to present recorded material that has a screen capture component. Something I enjoyed was watching my tutorial
on creating a mobile app. I believe it
to be well done and I really enjoyed creating it.
Eric, I must say I loved your "5 bit binary code raining from the cloud" desktop in your video.
ReplyDeleteI am always interested in Android programming. I do supervise students on programming but I never did it myself. It was instructive to see your video. I am bookmarking this to work on it in the future. Thank you.
Your self evaluation was also great. I did the same thing by evaluating my own video. It helps looking at your own video to improve your own setup. I also use Panopto and am quite comfortable with it.