EDU642: Week 4 - Preparing for Video Creation

Part 1: Reflection & Planning

Thinking about my video creations and reflections for next week, I want to dip into multiple subject areas. I can see links to many thinks I am doing right now with my class, so am having some ideas. ​

Possible Choice 1 - Video Creating
Last year I made a lot of instructional math videos using Clips and I really enjoyed it. These were more about how to complete a math problem/new concept in math. Because of the result/creation aspect that is outlined in some of these readings, I am wondering more about a video that leads students through a math activity rather than the new concept.
Content Area: Math
Standards: Something from our Fractions, Decimals, and Percents unit.
Audience: Studio 4 (grade 4)
Result: I am thinking of a pixel art/"quilt" optional activity that we have coming up. I could make a video tutorial on how to complete that activity on their iPad, including the fractions and percents aspects.
Supporting Creativity: Students will create their own "quilt" design and be able to show fractions and percents of colors used. Students can do this on their iPad or on grid paper.

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Possible Choice 2 - Video Creating
I am unsure about the second video I want to create yet. I really do enjoy making math instructional videos, so part of me is leaning towards that... or I could make an example video for our current writing task (as below)... or I could change my audience to teachers and create something for a Google Educator Bootcamp type thing I am planning to offer teachers at my current school. Undecided, so far!
Content Area: Math? Writing? Technology use? 
Standards: Fractions, Decimals, Percents, or How-to writing, or something aligned with the Google Educator Certificate level 1 test prep.
Audience: Studio 4 (grade 4) or elementary school teachers
Result: Either students know how to solve a math problem, have an example for their writing publishing (explained more in choice 3), or teachers know how to complete a skill for the Google Educator Certificate level 1 test.
Supporting Creativity: I think this is another reason I am unsure. Besides providing quality creative examples of publishing/producing, the tasks are not open-ended. I could possibly argue that the Google Educator one allows for teacher growth and creativity.

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Possible Choice 3 - Video Evaluation
One of our main concepts in our unit right now is process. We have used Teaching Without Frills' writing playlist to help us through the steps of our writing, and I would like to use one of these videos as an evaluation piece.
​Content Area: Writing
Standards: How-to/procedural writing
Audience: Studio 4 (grade 4)
Result: Students will have a well thought out writing about how to do some the whing after following the writing playlist.
Supporting Creativity: I am pushing them to be a little more creative with their publishing this time. Instead of just typing it in slides and making it a "book" I want them to use the visual skills we have worked hard on this year. A lot of them are choosing to make a video or stop-motion animation, and some may choose to make more of a visual step-by-step poster instead.

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Possible Choice 4 - Podcast Evaluation
I am also interested in adding some math podcasts to our Studio 4 multi-modal learning slides. This is something else that I would be interested in evaluating to see if it is worth adding to the slides. So far I have only found one podcast that might be relevant enough (MicDrop Math). If anyone has suggestions, please share! Math stories, math problems, math games... I understand why there is a small market for a podcast like this, but it could be fun! It also shows creativity with math.
Content Area: Math
Standards: Hopefully fractions, decimals, or percents (MicDrop Math has one on decimals)
Audience: Studio 4 (grade 4)
Result: Students know more about decimals, and have the option of listening if that is one of their preferred ways to learn.
Supporting Creativity: The MicDrop Math podcast has a sheet that students use while they follow along with the stories and audio. This type of creativity with the subject of math could be a great model for my students.

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Part 2 and 3: Ask and Provide

I suppose feedback I would like this week might be signaling and segmenting? I like this new format of blogging (helping me think out and process my ideas), but because I have not made the videos yet, I do find it difficult to know what specific feedback to ask for this week.  I also kind of feel like now that I have asked for that feedback, I am going to be more conscious about those two principles when I am creating. That is not necessarily a bad thing, of course.​