Consider teaching with the voices from the past by introducing students to great historians, political figures and famous people who lived centuries ago. Envision the classroom in which children hear the cry of a nearly extinct species and see the colors and hear the sounds of animals that thrive only in a remote wilderness half way around the world.
Consider how you or your children glue to films or cartoon games and films. Consider converting the hours they spend in watching such videos in a day or week to learn their subjects and courses.
Many Nigerian children are not interested in science subjects in school and most of them who try the subjects are finding it difficult to cope. Some students see it as an abstract knowledge.
Teachers who teach the students are not helping matters as many of them learn science subjects as a story subjects and many have not gone for any form of retraining or seminars since 5 to 10 years they graduate.
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In this blog, benefits of Educational Video in classroom and at home will be highlighted and how schools and parents can source the educational videos for their eLibrary or .
Also, how schools can go about setting up eLibrary system (offline and online) for their students and tearcher with these materials. A system that aid students to learn from anywhere, any time and on any devises (smart phones and TVs).
Video tutorials make learning much easier than printed material or online help pages.
Teachers that use video as a teaching aid in the classroom gain many benefits including greater student interest and improved reading and literacy skills.
As educators, our aim is to get students energized and engaged in the hands-on learning process, and video is clearly an instructional medium that is compelling and generates a much greater amount of interest and enjoyment than the more traditional printed material. Using sight and sound, video is the perfect medium for students who are auditory or visual learners.
Videos with subtitles have more benefits as it gives each child the choice to watch, listen to, or read each presentation. Video stimulates and engages students creating interest and maintaining that interest for longer periods of time, and it provides an innovative and effective means for educators to address and deliver the required curriculum content.
VIDEO CREATES AN EXPERIENCE
Consider teaching with the voices from the past by introducing students to great historians, political figures and famous people who lived centuries ago. Envision the classroom in which children hear the cry of a nearly extinct species and see the colors and hear the sounds of animals that thrive only in a remote wilderness half way around the world.
And what about investigating the laws of motion, sound and energy transfer by viewing the launch of the space shuttle on its voyage into space? Think about how much easier it would be to understand the diverse cultures of people who live in other areas of the world if you could encounter them in their own environments – hearing their songs, observing their rituals or listening to their silence.
The benefits of using video in education includes providing a sensory experience that allows concepts and ideas to actually become an experience and come to life as students are guided through each adventure.
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VIDEO AS A FLEXIBLE TEACHING MEDIUM
The more interested and engaged students are, and the more interactive each learning session is, the more students will enjoy, learn from and retain information from the lesson.
Video provides a means of interactive instruction and is a very flexible medium. Having the ability to stop, start and rewind is absolutely invaluable. It provides the option to stop each video and challenge students to predict the outcome of a demonstration, and elaborate on, or debate a point of historical reference. You also have the option to rewind a section of the video to review a segment to ensure that children understand a key concept. You can ensure to add further interactivity by copying activities, conducting discussions or repeating demonstrations and experiments in the your classroom.
EFFECTIVELY USING VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM…
Research has demonstrated that the most effective way to use video is as an enhancement to a lesson, or unit of study. Video should be used as a facet of instruction along with other resource material available to you for teaching a particular topic. Teachers should prepare for the use of a video in the classroom in the same way they do with other teaching aids or resources. Specific learning objectives should be determined in advanced, instructional sequences should be developed and reinforcement activities planned.
However using the most appropriate educational video service provider is extremely important so each teacher has the confidence in advance of the quality of the content and instruction provided. Using the right online educational video service should help teachers or parents to minimize lesson preparation time by enabling them to easily identify and select the right video for the lesson, and draw upon the other resources provided by that service to enhance the learning outcomes, and the quality and benefits of each lesson.
THE VALUE OF ESSENTIAL VIDEO SUPPORT TOOLS
If students and teachers are to receive the maximum benefits from the use of video in education, the video should be supported by a selection of other tools and resources that enable each topic to be fully investigated and explored. The use of video should be supported by the use of an interactive word glossary, laboratory, dictionary, thesaurus and an encyclopaedia.
Access to lesson plans specially written to be used in conjunction with the video help not only to minimize lesson preparation time, but also help provide valuable additional learning activities and projects that further enhance the use of the video as an educational aid.
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CHOOSING THE RIGHT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO PROVIDER
Meredox have and know Nigerian educational curriculums, this have help us and our partners to develop good videos that covers these curriculums for wards, pupils and students.
We have educational videos for children from nursery classes to senior secondary school level. This has been of great help to students offering science subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology etc.
Our video resources have given students 85% to 95% success in mastering and rekindling their interest in learning science subjects.
There are a lot of websites now offering the use of what is claimed to be educational video. But video produced specifically for the teaching of the K-12 curriculum is in much shorter supply. There may be many videos available that initially appear to be excellent from a visual perspective, but often they have been produced originally for Television, or for use at conferences, but certainly not for teaching the requirements of State or National curriculum’s, or with the needs of the classroom in mind. At the same time, many of the educational video-sharing websites do not make it easy to select the right video without the teacher or parent spend countless hours sieving through video of only a general educational nature.
And then of course there is the most important issue of subtitles, or what is otherwise referred to as closed captions. Professionally subtitled video enables each child to effectively study the material in the video, and improve their Reading and Literacy skills simultaneously. At the same time, by including the option for the student to read the presentation, as well as either watching or listening to it ensures that video will cater for the greatest range of preferred learning styles. However at the current time the issue, and value of subtitling has been largely ignored because of the significant additional cost of providing it, and only one online video service makes this subtitling widely available on video that has been developed specifically for teaching curriculum topics.
We set up eLibrary system (offline and online) for schools with this materials. Your student can learn from anywhere, any time and on any devises (smart phones and TVs).