This was one of my favorite Discovery Educator Network (DEN) sessions that I've attended over my many years teaching. The DEN likes to put teachers in the students' shoes sometimes and making Paperslide videos was a fun activity, engaging activity, only took 20 minutes before we were sharing, and was totally centered around a specific teaching objective.
Paper Slide Video: Solids, Liquids and Gasses from Heather Hurley on Vimeo.
Basically, Paperslide Videos are nothing more than sheets of papers that slide under the view of a recording camera. It's all done in one take, with no editing. It could be a nice way to introduce Powerpoint in that you aren't having students just jam 150 words on to a page, but they must rely on visual literacy to depict the lines from the song or their spoken lecture. There are no faces or names in the video, so the product could go immediately onto the class blog/wiki to be shared with other students and parents. But best of all, the students are rehearsing and creating the pictures, which means in order to teach the objective, they must learn it first.
Dr. Lodge McCammon, (with the Friday Institute out of NC State University), brings this to teachers quite frequently and he works extensively with the fine people of Discovery Education. He actually uses Paperslide Videos to explain the concept (the top video) and how to make one.
What can you do with Paperslide Videos? Some teachers use them just to capture a teacher or student-directed lecture video. That is a great first step through the door, but another very engaging product is to make a Paperslide Video to illustrate a song. Dr. Lodge has a lot of songs already on Discovery Education (search 'lodge' and media type 'song' to find 45 tunes organized by standard/subject/etc) or visit his other blog.
Check out what Mr. C's class did with "On The Numberline" in one class period with his Austin ISD students.
Lastly, excellent teacher in the DEN, Heather Hurley, shared a Paperslide they did on States of Matter that uses one of Lodge's songs! She used a video-sharing site, Vimeo, to share this with her colleagues and parents. I embedded this video at the top of this post to catch your attention!
Now, the same songs can also be used in a very kinesthetic environment by having students act out the lyrics instead of drawing them. While not a Paperslide video, the same concepts apply and the time for the product is still maintained within part of a class period. Check out how students showed the Order of Operations in this music video.
Create your own Paperslide Videos!! Leave a comment below with a link to one your class made. We'd love to see it.
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