This learning object is an interactive, video-based creation tool that offers a way to share pedagogical experiences with faculty and teacher education students. This software allows students to run video-anchored learning in various disciplines. The teacher interface includes several areas: home, download, tutorial, and people. Transcripts synchronized with the video clips are also included.
Type of Material:
Instructional technology tool; case study and reference material.
Recommended Uses:
This tool could be used in student teaching seminars and teacher education coursework. It is always a resource for college faculties who wish to use interactive video cases to scaffold students' learning of educational theories and practices.
Technical Requirements:
Can use PC or MAC platforms. Need QuickTime or RealPlayer videos to import.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The Case Creator is a video-based creation tool designed to provide teacher education faculty and students a way of sharing a common pedagogical experience through the use of real video to excite and motivate student teachers. Students accessing this website can make connections between educational theory and practice by viewing video cases imported by their instructors.
Target Student Population:
Teacher educators and students in teacher education.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Understanding of technology terms and tools to follow the instructional tutorial; ability to import files.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Provides tool and tutorial for creating video-based cases for teaching demonstrations.
Concerns:
Requires technical knowledge and skills in QuickTime video production to use the tool.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Employs the Interpersonal Process Recall method of supervision to create real videos for student teacher conferencing. Likewise, the tool could be used to illustrate differentiated instructional methods as teaching demonstrations in teacher education coursework.
Concerns:
It is dependent upon user's technology abilities and skills.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The tool can be used with a PC or MAC platform. It is easy to use. It has a step-by-step tutorial to help teachers to import videos.
Concerns:
The tool requires the user to import QuickTime videos.
Creative Commons:
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