How useful is video for analysis?
Video can be a very useful tool for analysis. It is powerful for data collection and can interpret the messages more precisely than any other methodologies like note taking, audio recording, interview or observation…etc. Video can also combine the elements of graphics, animation, texts, music, sound effects to enrich the content and hold the viewers’ interest for more effective and efficient learning.
Does each employ a form of analysis? How why? What would you design with the findings from some of these analysis?
The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch is an outstanding, well produced and powerful video demonstrating the impacts that tech tools have had on our life. I wouldn’t think Mr. Wesch’s video employed any form of analysis. According to Allison Rossett & Kendra Sheldon (2001), analysis is the study we do in order to figure out what to do. The Machine is Us/ing us did make its points that web 2.0 could be used in flexible formats by anyone and occurred anywhere. However, it didn’t apply the mechanisms that we can use to analyze learning and come up with some suggestions for further learning.
Bigfoot- Sasquatch evidence analysis, as its title suggested, it is a type of analysis. It analyzed on collected evidences to prove the existence of Sasquatch. Although some of interviewees in the video debated credibility of the evidences, the debate of the proofs could be a critical learning for viewers. It would be a good practice for my instructional design by applying the analysis from different perspectives.
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ReplyDeleteThis was a very well thought out post. I agree that video is a good analysis tool and requires little effort from the viewer. The Wesch video is informative about the history of Web 2.0. The only method that you could utilize this information would be to create a Web 2.0 portal to various sites that you would want your students to use.
The Bigfoot video was a very interesting analysis of the Sasquatch legend of North America. The evidence was compelling and as a result, I spent a good amount of time looking at other videos and accounts of sightings. This would be a great project for a history class utilizing a Wiki.