1. Preview your video in its entirety. You may wish to emphasize and to select two to three minute segments that focus on the concepts you plan to teach.
2. Prepare your teaching idea while previewing the tape. Most instructional videos include activities that you would want your learners to do themselves.
3. Interactive lessons should be planned for before, and after viewing. An entire class reading, experiment, or group discussion provides a context for learning before viewing. After viewing, learners should act on information provided through exploration and experimentation. Provide learning stations around your classroom where experiments and activities can be performed.
4. Lights in the classroom should be left on. Learners are signaled that this is not a time-out and enables them to interact by drawing diagrams, recording data and so on. Window blinds, however, should be left closed. This eliminates sunlight glare on the screen.
5. It is important to provide a focus for viewing before playing the video, posing questions that clue learners on what to watch for. Use the "Before Viewing" questions/activities found in many video guides.
6. Let learners show what they know during viewing that ties to the content of the video. An example might be, before you show a segment about a particular concept, tell the learners to smile when they recognize the answer to the question being asked.
7. It is important to check learners comprehension often during viewing. Ask for predictions, introduce or reinforce new vocabulary, review key ideas, and pose questions.
8. Vary your presentation by turning off sound or picture at crucial times to provide your own narration to increase focus, or permit learners to make predictions. (If so provide narration, you can use a video that was slated for a younger or older audience.)
9. A video should be used as one of many resources. Videos by themselves should not constitute an entire lesson but should be used as one of many tools in instruction.
10. Explore the video market. Look at as many available ESU#8 titles as possible to seek complimentary videos from other subject matter sources. Many Fine Arts and Social Studies videos complement Science content beautifully.

Suggestions for Working with All Media Types

Recommendations...

1. Plan for the most effective use of teacher-student time by integrating instructional materials with carefully planned lessons.
2. Place your request for materials at least a week in advance.
3. Preview the materials to determine whether or not it meets your objectives.
4. Plan the pre- and follow-up activities - provide the opportunity for learning rather than by chance.
5. Arrange for the necessary equipment and room preparation, making adjustments such as to darken the room, provide for proper ventilation, etc.
6. Return all materials to the bag in your building prior to the arrival of the ESU van driver on the return date. Late returns make it necessary to cancel another teacher's confirmed request.
7. Request an extension of time, if necessary, by contacting the booking clerk at ESU Media Center (887-4125). This should be done before the arrival of the van driver for pick-up.
8. Eliminate damage by keeping the equipment clean and in proper operating condition. KEEP THE DUST COVER ON ALL EQUIPMENT WHEN NOT IN USE.
9. REQUEST ASSISTANCE in the operation of new equipment, or pieces with which you are not familiar, if you do not know how to operate it.
10. Keep your media coordinator informed of any problems encountered with materials or equipment.

Avoid...

1. Permit a machine to operate when the material has broken or the machine develops strange noises.
2. Leave the machine in the ON position when not in actual use.
3. Permit students to operate equipment until they have been taught proper operation techniques.
4. Permit cords and plugs in the path of student traffic.
5. Use a film or other materials as "entertainment" or as something to fill a class period."

   (Students can easily detect if materials are "used" or "abused". Abuse may lead to less effective utilization later.)

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