6.++Lesson+-+Movies+for+Teaching



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﻿ ﻿ Engaging students while developing an understanding of new concepts is a challenge to educators. Instructors and textbooks try to structure case studies for teaching, but these activities can be rather sterile and lack the richness and the uniqueness of coming to know within the context of a situation. A staple of American culture – television uses audio-visual images, to compress complex stories into rich, visually intense images that bring situations to life in a more powerful way than the traditional lecture approach (Raines, 2010).

Creating and producing your own movies can enhance your teaching by engaging students, illustrating concepts and stimulating discussion or debate. As Mayer emphasizes, stimulating both the visual and auditory channels increases transfer of information to long-term memory or learning. Your content knowledge combined with your experience as a scholar/practitioner in your field provides you a wealth and variety of experiences, event and stories to share with your students. Educators often share professional experiences or situations during their instructional acttivities, but adding the synergistic effect of verbal and visual stimulation of a multimedia movie, further enhances the value and dissemination of your knowledge to your students.

 But before you begin to produce your movie you need to make a number of pedagogical decisions:
 * **What is the concept you want to teach? **
 * A well focused short (2-5 minute) presentation is optimal.
 * Consider making a mind map to focus and organize your ideas.
 * Here are two mind-mapping resource that are available for free.
 * [|Webspiration]
 * [|Bubbl.Us]
 * If you are not familar with mind-mapping, here is a brief overview of the why, what and how of creating and using mind-maps : [|What is a mind map and how to get started immediately]


 * ** What is the purpose of using this movie in your teaching, is it to: **
 * Emotional involve students,
 * Introduce a new or abstract concept,
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Summarize new information,
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Make history come to life
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bring the real world into the classroom

<span style="color: #be4141; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Here are three examples of using a movie to teach. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> The first two examples were created with MovieMaker.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The first is a movie to introduce and welcome students. The purpose of this movie is to give the students an overview or the content and expectations of this course. This is a totally online course, therefore this movie replaces the type of course introduction/overview that the professor would give during the first class session.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The second is an example to evoke an emotional response. This movie is used in a Health Policy course to raise awareness about the vulnerable members of society and the challenges they face to maintain health and well being. media type="youtube" key="UrYyqRxl6CA?hl=en" height="274" width="339" align="center"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">And finally the third example. The first time you watch this movie---turn off the sound. Can you tell the purpose of the movie? Then re-watch it with the sound. media type="custom" key="8272506" align="left" width="127" height="120"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">When you watched this video without the sound...did you know it was about leadership? Probably not. The "fun" nature of the video make the message about the qualities and process of leadership more memorable than if the speaker had static slides and listed the qualities and process of leadership. This video is an example of an emotional hook - shown at the begining of class, it captures the student's attention and "hooks" them into the instruction that follows. Alternatively, the professor could show this video and then ask the students to identify who was the leader and what leadership qualities and processes that individual exhibited.

= Now it is your turn! =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Working in a small group (no more than 3 people) or individually begin to design your movie. At this time, you need to complete two tasks that are critical to the design and production of a quality multimedia movie.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Task #1:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is the concept you want to teach and what is the rationale for using multimedia presentation?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In answering this question think about...
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What makes this concept important or more significant than other concepts?
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How does this concept relate to other material in your course?
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is the most important "thing" for your students to know about this concept?
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What image does this concept bring to your mind, in other words, when you visualize this concept in your mind...what do you see?
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Have you experienced this concept in your life (professionally or personally)? What was that experience life and how would you like to share that experience with others?
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What is the purpose of using multimedia to teach this concept?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Please share your thoughts in the discussion and read and respond to other workshop participants to assist them in enhancing the focus and purpose of their movie project. Our discussion will last for 30 minutes.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Task #2:** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now that you have determined the focus and purpose of your multimedia movie, construct a mind-map to begin to organize and sequence the content of your movie <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">.
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Use one of the technology resources mentioned in this lesson or one that you had used in the past.
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This mind-map will be the blueprint as you begin to write the script and create visuals for your movie.
 * <span style="color: #e42121; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will have 30 minutes to begin your mind-map--so open your brain and let the ideas flow!

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=Resources:=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Video to anchor instruction]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This article in Faculty Focus lists 10 strategies for using video as part of the instructional process.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Raines, D.A. (2010). Learning nursing concepts through television programs. Journal of Nursing Education, 49 (3): 173-174. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20100218-02. (Available full-test in the Pub. Med database).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This article describes the use of popular television programs to illustrate nursing concepts.