The Decision Tool

The Decision Tool – 5 Stages

1. What is your educational purpose?

2. Image, interaction and integration

3. Technical and implementation issues

4. Comparing practical and educational requirements

5. Revised proposal

What is your Educational Purpose?

The practitioner makes a clear educational proposal.

Not only is this vital to an efficient development and design process but it will help communication with colleagues and technical/audiovisual staff.

Why do you want to use video?

Learning outcome(s)

Audience?

Why stream / CD etc?

Write a short proposal

Image, Interaction and Integration

A quiz asks the developer to think about learning and teaching purpose in more depth.

This will help to identify the “Three I’s” educational focus.

Image – value of the moving image itself

Interactivity – control and access over the resources

Integration – how the resource is linked to other materials and activities

Technical and Implementation Issues

Checklist

Who can help? (Tool helps dialogue) Home access, work access or on campus? Connection speeds? Media player? Browser? Sound? Live or archive? How many viewers? Available shooting equipment (cameras etc)? Available capture equipment (cards etc)? Access for disabled students? How much time do I have?

Comparing Practical, Educational Needs

Technology

Pedagogy

Infrastructure

Accessibility

• Redefine original proposal. • Balance educational focus and the technical and

implementation requirements. • What is currently possible and questions still to be

resolved.

Revised Proposal

• I intend to film and edit a series of laboratory experiments for module E521 using the camera from the Audiovisual Department. I wish to learn how to edit myself and then ask Audiovisual to convert the films into a high quality image in a Windows Media streaming format…

• …they will host the videos on their streaming server. I will ask the technical assistant how to link these films directly to self-assessment quizzes ….