[Nesabes] FW: Video recording classrooms for an adult education video teaching library

[Ball, Patrice]

Thought this might be interesting for some of you.

Patty Ball, Technology Coordinator
NorthEast SABES
NECC 45 Franklin St
Lawrence MA 01840
978-738-7303  pball at necc.mass.edu


Please circulate the message below to teachers at your program. For  
some teachers and programs this might be a terrific professional  
development opportunity.
David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

Dear teaching colleague,

I want to pilot test in the Boston area what may become a project to  
develop an online library of short adult education (ABE, ESOL, ASE,  
college prep)  teaching videos.  I will be working with a  
videographer friend, former teacher and colleague, Owen Hartford. Our  
first step is to video record short lessons in adult education  
classrooms. Please let us know if you and one of your classes would  
like to participate in this (for now: volunteer, unfunded) project.   
Here's how it would work:

You would select a particular lesson or teaching technique that you  
feel is effective and that you would like to share with others.  We  
would video record that presentation and student interaction in your  
classroom for about 10-15 minutes. Prior to the lesson, we would meet  
with you for 15-30 minutes to see your classroom,  to schedule when  
the lesson segment would be recorded, and to video record a short  
discussion with you about the objectives of the lesson and a
description of your students.  Following the lesson, we might also  
want to tape a short segment on how you thought the lesson went.

We would arrive 30 minutes before the class to set up the equipment  
and meet your students. We would then video the lesson.  We would  
meet with you for 30 minutes afterwards to show you the unedited  
recording, and discuss how you thought the lesson went. You and your  
students would need to sign a release form that the (possibly edited)  
video could be used in not-for-profit adult education professional  
development and training.  We would give you a digital copy of the  
(edited) video.

To participate, you will need to e-mail us a simple, one-page  plan,  
including:

1) Learning objective(s). What do you want the students to be able to  
describe or do at the end of the 10-15 minute lesson?

2) Relationship to Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. Does the  
planned lesson fit in with the Massachusetts Adult Ed Curriculum
Frameworks?  If so, which framework, what particular part?

3) Activities. What are the activities of the lesson? For each  
activity, is it primarily something you do as the teacher, or that
the students do, or both?

We would also want to know:

1) Have you ever been videotaped while teaching? If so, tell us about  
that experience.

2) Are there any special considerations we should be aware of  
concerning making a video in your classroom: light, sound, room to
operate video cameras?

3) Have the students in the class agreed to be video recorded?

4) Has your program director agreed that the class may be video  
recorded?

We will select teachers to participate based on their responses to  
these questions.

As this is a project in its early stages we also welcome teachers'  
reactions and suggestions to the project, and suggestions on how to
effectively video record adult education classrooms.

If you are interested in participating in the _Now I Get It_ pilot  
project, please let me know as soon as possible, but by January 26th  
at the latest.  Thanks.

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

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