1. iTeach Enhancing a Minilesson with Digital Video
Session 8

2. How can digital video enhance my minilesson?
Focusing Questions
How can digital video enhance my minilesson?
How can I find digital videos that are appropriate for my topic?

3. Instruction

4. Framing The Session
What are some reasons one might use video in a lesson (particularly in your content area)?

5. Teaching – Benefits of Video
Can increase students’ motivation to learn.
Supports auditory and visual learners.
Provides multimedia content for struggling readers.
Provides new background knowledge and reinforces ideas already taught (social studies/science).
Provides opportunities to develop listening and note-taking skills (literacy).
Can demonstrate a process (math/science).

6. Strategies for Using Video
Use focusing questions and note-taking to structure active listening.
Show short selective clips—not complete videos.
Watching the video is not the lesson itself! Students should apply the information they collect to a larger project.

7. Work Time

8. Find videos that can enhance your minilesson and bookmark them.
Work Time
Find videos that can enhance your minilesson and bookmark them.

9. Share

10. What videos did we find to enhance our minilessons?
Share
What videos did we find to enhance our minilessons?