I've seen the promised land - and it is when students (unasked) make teaching screencasts for other students.
The video below was put in our Blackboard Course Blog by our student Eric. It shows how to embed a YouTube video in a Blackboard blog (or Wiki). Eric used Jing to make the screencast. Jing is the tool that the students are using in groups to make 6 teaching voice-over presentations on sociological concepts.
One of the assignments for the students throughout the semester is to find short Web videos that are relevant to the curriculum that we are covering and post them on Blackboard (with a note about why the video relates to a specific sociological topic or concept).
Having students turn themselves into educators, and having students independently take pro-active leadership steps, should be one of the explicit goals of our courses and programs.
How can we facilitate and encourage more behavior like what Eric demonstrated in this work?
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