For my video evaluation I chose to evaluate Jack Hartmann's Silent e video. I would use this video in my kindergarten classroom later in the year around February or March. The lesson this video would help teach is how to read words when they have an e at the end of the word. Before playing this video for my students I would have already taught my students about what long vowel sounds were and how to differentiate those sounds from short vowel sounds. We would play games and practice drills to determine when words have long or short vowels in them. Then I would have them play this video in Seesaw where they are able to see how e changes a short vowel into a long vowel. Then in their exit activity the words that were used in the video would be posted in their student sample in Seesaw. The students would use the microphone tool to record themselves reading the words as a review. This mini-lesson would be one of many lessons that help scaffold the silent e into their schema.
When evaluating this video I based it on the 10 Factors of Choosing the Right Podcasts for Your Classroom and applied them to videos. Looking at the first factor I felt that the video was very appropriate for kindergarten since it is important that our emerging readers are able to understand basic phonics skills and be able to apply them to their reading. Factors 3, 4, and 5 look at the presentation of the content and format of the video. The video is very clear and has visuals that young children can understand. Jack Hartmann has great energy and teaches concepts in song form that help keep children engaged. Factor 7 asks if the source is a credible source. I view Jack Hartmann as a very credible source as his wife who has been an elementary teacher for over 20 years is a major contributor to all of his academic videos. I thought the video also enhanced learning on the topic with highlighting the vowel and Jack Hartmann covering the silent e and saying "shhh". What would have made the video even better is if Jack Hartmann engaged the viewer by prompting them to practice some of the words. I also applied Mayer's Principles of Multimedia Design to my evaluation of the video. The video did not have any distractions when looking at the coherence principle, the video used highlighting of vowel letters and silent e for signalling, it keeps everything clean and does not have a lot of extra text or pictures, and he segments the video with little singing breaks. There was pre-training in the beginning of the video to show the students how to apply the silent e principle but there would require some pre-training on my part to teach students what long vowels are. When students are looking at the silent e words and learning about them the modality principle is addressed as he narrates the words. He does not show his face during the teaching part or practicing parts of the video which addresses the imaging principle. After using these two resources to help me evaluate the video I feel that Jack Hartmann's Silent e video is a good video to use in my virtual classroom or blended portions of my face to face classroom. Jack Hartmann has been a trusted face in educational videos for years and I look forward to utilizing more of his videos in the future.
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