Using+YouTube

=Using Video in Online Courses=

Using YouTube or one of the many video storage sites can really help you communicate with students in online classes. From sharing more of who you are (what you look like, your voice, you hair style) with your students, to describing difficult concepts that might better help audio learnes understand thye content better, a video can develop more presence and immediacy in your online class.

Here is a video by biology instructor Matt Pearcy introducing his students to where things can be found in his online class.

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Using video to introduce yourself to the class is another option. Many students never see or hear their instructors in online courses. We have the ability to change that now. Here is an instructor from Maricopa Community College introducing herself to her class.

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