Video taping lectures
I find Video taping lectures and demonstrations very helpful. You see everything good and bad on the tape. A very good way to see ones own mannerism, gestures and voice projection. A good to way learn from it and improve for future lectures.
Video taping lectures is an exellent idea, especially for new instructors. By video taping lectures, the instructor will be able to experience the lecture from the student's point of view. Changes to material delivery can easily be made once problem areas have been identified.
Recording a lecture can be quite helpful for most instructors. But I have found for some that if they are aware that they are being recorded they act differently. At my last college we had cameras permanently installed in each room and the recording would be random, thus giving the instructor a more accurate representation of their typical actions.
Absolutel Zafar! This is expecially a good process for new instructors as well as for one's who have been around for a while.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
I enjoyed the section on video taping lectures in that I use this analogy many times in my classes, especially Communications.
As a new instructor some 13 years ago, it was a requirement that one full class be taped; that I review it personally; and then with the DOE for critique, mentoring, etc.
In the section of this ED106 dealing with the inability to let go of the lecturn, that was me at the start of my career. I don't think I moved as far away as my arms outstretched.
My students joke with me that they can't believe I was ever uneasy speaking in front of a group. I relate my fear and trepidation and how I overcame it.
