The use of Video Art Tutorials to aid online learning

It has been a challenge to ensure that the students are continuing to develop their practical art skills whilst working at home. When in the physical classroom, we are always displaying exemplar work and delivering practical demonstrations so as the students can understand the process.

The art department has been making good use of apps such as ‘lapse it’ and of course recording Zoom tutorials to put together virtual demonstrations of practical projects that the students can watch at home.

This is definitely a valuable resource that can be brought back into the physical classroom, if a student is absent or would like a re-cap of a particular practical skill, they can simply watch a video tutorial to show them how. There is also the added benefit that those students who may need instructions repeated or struggle with language, then they are able to review the video time and time again.

I sent out a google form to my S3 class to gain their feedback on the video tutorials (of course we need to take into consideration bias and not wanting to offend me as their teacher) but that aside, all of the students responded positively to the value of video tutorials;

“yes i did find them helpful and watched acuerala even though i dont have. I cant think of any improvements besides doing more of them. They are not too short or long and they are really good visual help” (S3, Google Form)

It is of course challenging to work out how to set up the camera, I find that a small table placed on top of my desk, so that my camera phone can balance over the edge of the small table to film, works rather well!

The online learning experience is enabling us to build up a bank of video tutorials that we can continue to have as great resources when we return to the classroom.

Screenshots from online video tutorials, some have now been uploaded onto YouTube