Sunday, December 9, 2007

Digital Video in Education

Staying on the topic of digital video, here's a site that offers tools for teachers, learners, and researchers.

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/DVE/FusionDVE/html/dve_front_door.html

"...as a researcher you will find that video can preserve more aspects of interaction including talking, gesture, eye gaze, manipulatives, computer displays. Moreover, video allows repeated observation of the same event, and supports microanalysis and multidisciplinary analysis. Video supports an analysis of the motion and the mathematics of motion. Video supports the construction of significant stories that tell and explain. Video can get researchers out of controlled laboratory settings and into the naturalistic field work. Finally, video provides analytical benefits: it can support grounded theory, whereby the emergence of new categories from source materials is carefully disciplined. Video can avoid the "what I say" versus "what I do" problem that can occur in self-reports. Video supports a critical incident methodology, but also allows examination of the lead-up and downstream consequences of the critical event."

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