Instructional Videos in Teaching

Videos are becoming more and more desirable and pleasurable in teaching for students and teachers. They draw the students in and make something normal and plain even more exciting with background music and effects. In the FACS realm of teaching, videos can be particularly helpful in showing shortened demonstrations of cooking, zooming in on sewing machine parts, experiencing architecture and design, and much more. Cooking demonstrations help students be successful in making mysterious recipes. It can save them from common mistakes and emphasize important tips. In clothing construction, sewing machine parts and procedures can be hard to explain and show a class all at one. A video would allow everyone to see and provide replay options when necessary. In the area of interior design, visual learning is extremely beneficial and, actually, vital. I would try to make videos of famous places and designs from the community to enhance learning. Also, I think video projects for teenagers would be a lot of fun for them, their peers, and myself. It would be fun to see what they could come up with. I would keep topics open ended giving them broad topics to create with. Topics could include teen living, adult roles, dating, and financial management.

This video was a demonstration, but I would use it more for introducing and remembering the purpose of different quick bread ingredients. I would have put narration with it, but I did not want to disrupt the people in the lab. Instead, I inserted text. I would use this video as a quiz on the day after we talked about quick bread ingredients. The quiz would already have the questions on it so that they could keep up with the movie or grab the information from memory. The movie would also serve as a demonstration, reminder, and visual of what to expect and look for as we make the bread; killing two birds with one stone.