A common video hosting and viewing site. As a course developer, you can use it to host your own videos, create a playlist, search for other videos that are relevant to your course, and assign students to find related videos as part of an assignment.
In this short, weekly announcement video (2:30 minutes), the instructor provides a good deal of pertinent information for her students.
In addition to the content of the announcement, the instructor is allowing the students a glimpse into her real life, as she is working remotely from a campsite in Florida. In other videos, she is in her office, at the Nittany Lion Shrine, etc.
Following is an example of a page from a course that is explaining the Law of the Conservation of Energy using three unique examples, thus using the concept of multimodal instruction to increase student understanding. The first example is a video in which the instructor uses potato chips and a lawn mower to explain and demonstrate how energy is neither created nor destroyed, but is instead changed to become useless to us.
To build verbal communication skills, student engagement, and a sense of community, Orientation to Energy and Sustainability Policy, EMSC 302, includes a discussion assignment that requires students to participate in a recorded video conference with one or two other students
