Teaching with Digital Video

Even though digital video has now become a common feature of commercial, religious, political, and government website, as well as social interactions, the mere existence of digital video in the classroom is unlikely to improve learning.

On the other hand, an effective teaching strategy incorporating the right video may be one of the most successful means by which you can engage students’ interest or help them understand a difficult concept or improve their long-term retention of knowledge.

Today, you can access and watch millions of digital resources through the Internet—movie and TV clips, instructional videos, home movies of natural and cultural phenomena, and more.

Analyses of digital video are made easier than ever by software that can overlay and combine representations to allow students to visualize underlying patterns.

Using simple, free digital video tools, both you and your students can create video by combining photographs, documents, maps, audio clips, and even snippets of other videos.

These capabilities allow students to explore concepts that would not be as accessible otherwise and add an important dimension to communication and conversations about these concepts.

The SITE Screening Room was established to aid the readers of our book, Teaching with Digital Video: Watch, Analyze, Create, by providing a single location for downloading videos created by or recommended by our chapter authors.

Whether you have read the book or not, we invite you to browse this site and take away some great new ideas for incorporating digital video in your classroom!

Glen L. Bull & Lynn Bell, Editors

Now It's Your Turn!

If you or your students have created a noteworthy or innovative video that helps students learn some aspect of the school curriculum, we encourage you to submit the video to the SITE Screening Room by clicking here.


Awards recognizing exemplary uses will be announced at the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education and posted on the SITE web site (http://site.aace.org).