What Kind of Video Could I Create?

Module 2 What Kind of Video?

As always, your Learning Objectives should determine the type of Instructional Video that you will create. Here are some styles to consider and when you might want to use each. It's always useful to watch several high-quality examples of the type of video that you hope to create to get a sense for length, pacing, energy-level, etc. Again, you don't have to reinvent what works!

Ted-Talk

  • ~10-15 minutes of high-energy, image-based voice over video.
  • Use this to highlight major concepts, drive home structural concepts, present supporting information for a major concept (images, graphs etc.)

Example:

Voiceover Whiteboard

  • Use this to illustrate examples, show equations, work through problems, highlight areas of images, e.g. a map, etc.

Example:

Digital Story

  • Write a script and add images and video behind it to support a narrative

Example:

Demonstration

  • Interactive content
  • Lab, dance, theater, music, interview skills, scenario etc.

Example:

On Location

  • Take your students on a virtual field-trip!
  • Museum, city-center, mountains, fields 
  • Think LeVarr Burton from Reading Rainbow or Mr. Rogers! (except you are the producer)

Example:

Dr. Cassandra Quave, Course: Teach Ethnobotany

Interview

  • Either in-person or via Zoom, record a Q & A with an expert in the field

Example:

 

Other Options