Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, March 21-24, 2013

Paper S133

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN-10: 0133866726, Copyright (C) 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Improving Communications Skills Through Student-Produced Videos

Vicky W. Klima


Appalachian State University

list of all papers by this author


Click to access this paper: paper.pdf

ABSTRACT

Most mathematics instructors would agree that a student's journey towards a problem's solution is often more important to the student's learning than the particular solution he or she finds. This paper presents a method for students to communicate this journey through video. The paper describes video essay assignments in which students are asked to create and narrate a screencast that addresses a certain problem in the course. In the paper I will first review two freely available screencast programs and discuss the technical issues of introducing the software to students. Then I will discuss how the projects were implemented in both a business calculus and modern algebra course. I will include a discussion of assessment for both courses, including summative asessment of the videos and formative assessment of the projects as teaching tools.

Keyword(s): pedagogy