Documentation:Learning Principles & Strategies/Case Study/FNH Student Video Projects/Course Summary
Summary
Context: Every time I teach my FNH200 class, I ask students to form groups and explore the science behind any food product they want. I have one goal in mind: get students to learn from each other.
What do students need to learn? Students are learning to how to present information and share research with each other.
What has been your approach to teaching? I had students make poster presentations where everyone had a chance to walk around a space and ask each other questions. The student posters were well made but I wanted some way to keep them without taking up too much space. The following year, instead of poster presentations, students were asked to create project pages on the UBC Wiki with the intent of having informational pages for the food products they investigated. The wiki pages were well-written and detailed but I wasn't sure if the students will read a whole page.
What approach are you experimenting with? A year later, I asked students to do 5-minute, in-class group presentation based on their wiki projects. I realized that not everyone was engaged. I then decided to add a 5-minute video component instead of the presentation.The videos needed to be educational and their intended audiences were everyone else who were not part of the class.
What are students learning? They are learning how to create educational videos about products they research themselves.
What are you learning? Watch the video above to find out what was it like for Judy to integrate videos in class, how did the students react, how did the videos turn out, and what Judy learned during the whole experience.
We asked her the following questions:
| Question | Time Stamp |
|---|---|
| Why ask students to make video projects? | 00m:17s |
| Did you know how to make videos? | 01m:36s |
| What were your expectations? | 02m:06s |
| How did the video projects turn out? | 02m:41s |
| How were the video projects? | 03m:02s |
| What are some examples? | 03m:52s |
| What did the students learn from the project? | 05m:18s |
| What did you ask students to think about? | 06m:40s |
| What changes will you make in future classes? | 07m:36s |
| What did you learn from the project? | 08m:05s |