Teacher Tech Camp and Paper Slide Videos

This week we began our teacher tech camp or as we call it STAR Camp. STAR stands for "Stellar Teachers Aquiring Resources. We came up with this name the first year we offered the camp in the Dallas Diocese. Our original intent was to do a virtual field trip with NASA but it didn't pan out. We kept the name anyways. This year we are offering two camps. One now and then one in August. The camp this week is a digital camp. Days one and two are using digital images and days three and four will be focused on video. The first two days went quite well. Wednesday we begin video and we are introducing paper slide videos.

I was introduced to paper slide videos at a Discover Education pre-con event at TCEA. However I actually have seen this type of process before in a video done by INXS:



Lodge McCammon though was where I heard about the process for use in the classroom. Paper slide videos are often used for the "flipped classroom", which is a whole other discussion. There are many links out there that you can search and see examples of how that works. Here are two:
Jerry Overmyer - Vodcasting and the Flipped Classroom
Flipped Learning
and a link to a great info graphic too large for me to embed but check it out:
Flipped Classroom Info graphic

As I write this, we finished Day 3. Our "students" completed 2 videos using a Flip camera. The did a paper slide video and then did a video where they act out the lyrics to an educational song. We took the songs from Discovery Education. If your school has a subscription to DE, it is a fabulous resource for songs for the classroom. Their finished products were awesome! Below is one example of a paper slide video some teachers made to explain classroom rules:

There are so many uses for a paper slide video. My personal favorite would be to have a collection of these types of videos to be used for tutorials. It would take some time, (a summer project perhaps) but you could create an entire library of these videos and use them throughout the school year. It would make it easy for students when studying for a test to refer back to a video that explains the concept. Not exactly a web tool but certainly a great tool for the classroom.