Either yesterday or today my YouTube channel passed 3,000 views. I created my last video for the first semester and there is now officially a video for each of the sections for the first 6 chapters in the book. Now that I have figured out more bells and whistles like the calculator function I think it is going to go better for the rest of the year. Few things are more annoying I am guessing than watching your teacher do long division. It might be a good review but if you know how to do it then what a waste of time. This also should cut down on the time for each video that involves calculations.
I have started to add more images and am looking into adding other things the videos. Now I feel like the videos that I did at the beginning of the year are pretty boring and lame. I still looked at the video counter every night and saw that the videos were not being viewed by every student each night. So once I added the images I came up with a new idea of how to get the students to watch the videos more regularly. Every day after a video I have started to give them a 1 or 2 question multiple choice quiz. It is something simple and visual like what color was the Muppet who was the waiter (it was Grover and he is blue) or what was the Lego set that I mentioned (the Death Star). The answers are really easy and obvious and sometimes in the videos I even mention that you will want to remember this for tomorrow. The first day I did this I had not told the students and I was able to sense a shift in the class. They realized that I did have a way of making sure they at least looked at the video. So I am trying to find interesting and memorable images for the students to see for each video.
Now that I have one semester under my belt I feel like I am going to be able to really work at this and make the process even better for all involved.
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