Creating Classroom Videos: 10 Ways to Benefit

Classroom videos have become an integral part of 21st century teaching and learning processes. 

Today's teachers should be trained on how to create video lesson with the simplest tools on the net that guarantee both a thrilling and impacting classroom.

Check out this post for list of 10 free video creation tools for your class 

We have a combination of tools that are both cost effective and easy-to-use that teachers can master in producing video contents for their classroom deliveries.

Integrating video creation in schools has a tremendous benefits, both to the teachers, students and management alike.

The benefits are endless, which include accessibility, interaction, lasting solution and global reach.

In this post, I show you 10 ways schools can benefit from classroom video creation.

     #1. Time saving

       When video lessons are integrated in the teaching and learning process in schools,
     teachers tend to have time to engage in other pressing tasks, while playing the videos for their students. 

     If it's in a school where each student has a personal computer, it's a question of sending the video to each child to interact with at their own time.

     #2. Personalized Learning

      When teachers prepare videos and send across to their students, it helps each child to learn at his/her own pace and preference. This reduces the tension of competitiveness we see when children learn together. Here, each child learns freely and then ask questions directly and privately to the teacher, where need be.

     #3. Repeat Emphasis
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      Teachers can send the videos of their classroom work to students to learn over and over again. With this, even the dumbest child watching the video and listening to the teacher severally would have learnt. This repeat emphasis helps students in more ways than one.

#4. Reduce Students' Distracted Tendencies

Today's school children can hardly keep away from mobiles and digital devices. Of course, they are born as digital natives; hence we don't blame them. But one major area of worry has been their tendency to derail while using digital devices. Here is where video lesson comes in.

Video lesson also helps to keep away school children from those unprofitable things they do with their computers. Here, they are with their computers, but doing something beneficial. I am talking with experience as I have seen it work with my highly inquisitive students.

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#5. Developing Creative Thinking in Students

When videos are used for classroom engagements, students tend to be inquisitive to create their own videos. This helps to enhance creative thinking ability in school children.

#6. Flipped Classroom

Video lesson creation is one of the basic tools for a flipped classroom model, which promotes child-centred learning today. 

In case you don't understand what is meant by flipped classroom, read this post on flipped classroom

#7. Teachers' Self-testing

With video lesson, teachers can self-test themselves. What do I mean by this? The same way football players watch the video clip of their last match to assess their performance index… that’s it! By the time a teacher goes through his/her video lesson records for the class, it will help him/her to identify areas that can be improved upon.

#8. School Management Assessment Tool

Video lesson clips may be all that a school manager needs to assess each teacher’s class presentation ability- how the teacher is able to accommodate all the learners’ group in his/her lesson delivery. 

#9. Distant Learning

With video lesson, students can learn from a distant outside the current location of their teacher. This means that even when a child is indisposed to be in school for whatever reason, such child can still have access to the lesson of the day through video recording of the same lesson.

#10. Income Generation 

Teachers and schools can monetize video lessons in more than three ways:

-                    Convert to CDs and sell offline

-                    Youtube videos monetization

-                    Online tutorial

-                    Video blogging (Vlogging)