"Caught on Video"

Bob Spankle's blog "Caught on Video" explores many of the endless ways a teacher might use a small portable video camera with a USB port in the classroom. His suggestions range from video yearbooks/memories to video grades and homework. Spankle obviously loves the idea of using a video camera in the classroom. Of course many of his ideas seem possible, but many of them seem over the top. I don't know how much I would ever use a video recorder on a day to day basis recording all student's activities and learning as Spankle suggests. This seems time consuming and impractical. However, using a video camera occasionally to capture presentations, or fun projects, is a fun way to keep record and review. Also I could see myself using video recorders to record messages home to parents, which would be more personal and less time consuming than typing weekly of monthly newsletters. Video clips could also be added to class websites, so students can review, parents can visually see what is going on in the classroom, and students get excited about seeing themselves on line. Spankle showed me an excitement for using video recorders which makes me want to use them but also that sometimes it would be impractical to use them all of the time.