Instructional Video

The video I chose was a video I would use in my classroom to teach daily living skills to my 18-26 year old transition students. We work everyday on being able to clean up our kitchenette and this video would further my lessons regarding daily living skills. I do think I would not play this whole video without stopping it periodically and reviewing what we heard. My students have goals of becoming as independent as possible before they graduate from school. The students in my classroom require step by step instructions to complete tasks and an instructional video will help my more visual students retain knowledge.

After reading the podcast guide I really agreed with the first paragraph when it talked about how technology has been used “just to use it” because a school district had spent a lot of money on it and “it was Tuesday and it was time to head down to computers.” With the instructional video that I watched I felt it was very appropriate for the daily living skills we are currently working on. I also think this instructional video would enhance my lessons because my students visually would be able to see how to properly clean a kitchen. This video had good information but it was kind of boring to a normal functioning student. However, for my students, they don’t need any of the animation. It would only distract my students from the steps it takes to properly clean a kitchen. This video isn’t the best way to learn how to clean a kitchen. That would be by actually cleaning a kitchen but this instructional video will aide in the learning.

The video I created will be used to supplement my students learning during our daily living skills lesson regarding cleaning a kitchen. We will first learn about why it is important to keep a kitchen clean, then we would watch the instructional video I made and lastly we will use a picture sequence to assist the students in washing their hands. My goal for this lesson is for my students to be able to apply what they see to the actual act of washing their hands. Unfortunately, due to my students needs, being able to create any online artifact would be above their means. I think the instructional video uses the pre-training principle. Before my students actually attempt to wash their hands, which might seem like an easy, everyday task but for my students this skill is difficult and scary. If they have seen the steps and are familiar with them the success rate increases. If I ask one of my students to turn on the water they will understand and successfully accomplish that skill. It’s the sequencing that is a challenge. I might have chosen the wrong skill to do an instructional video on because daily living skills is the opposite of creativity. Daily living skills is routine and need to be followed with a rigorous consistency. This week I really enjoyed working with my students to create a daily living skills instructional video. They were soo excited and nervous! After this week I have actually thought about making daily living skills instructional videos for other skills.