Capturing the Classroom: Creating Videos to Reach Students Anytime

Harness the power of video to cultivate equity, create stability, and reach students any time. With Capturing the Classrooms, you will explore doable ways to establish, organize, share, and maintain a video archive to support any content area or curriculum and facilitate professional development. Learn how to capture lectures, labs, classroom discussions, tutorials, review sessions, and more. Whether you have access to high-end video equipment or simply a smartphone, you've got this.

• Understand the need for a video lesson archive, and how it creates a communal atmosphere for students.
• Learn what makes a video archive effective.
• Explore how a video archive can enhance standard classroom learning and grow student confidence.
• Create effective, varied videos for your own archive to implement into your teaching practices.
• Carry over videos from year to year, making the necessary adjustments and alterations based on feedback and change.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creating a Diverse Archive Throughout the School Year
Chapter 2: Preparing Before the Students Arrive
Chapter 3: Building Communication Confidence
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Ellen I. Linnihan is a secondary English and public speaking teacher in the Elmbrook School District in Brookfield, Wisconsin. She is also an adjunct faculty member for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Cooperative Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) program. Linnihan began her career teaching in Department of Defense schools in Kentucky and California. While raising four children, she spent 10 years as a freelance writer for educational publishing companies. She has been cultivating an archive of teaching videos since 2015 and is a strong advocate of including all learners in her classroom, whether they are face-to-face, remote, or hybrid learners.

Linnihan earned her National Board Certification for teaching secondary English in 2018. It was this experience that ignited a passion for sharing her ideas about creating a video archive to better serve her students. In addition to teaching, Linnihan serves as the program coordinator for the Distinguished Young Women of Brookfield Scholarship program, a national program that develops and recognizes scholarship, talent, and leadership in young women. She credits this program for launching her in a positive direction in life when she was a high school participant. In 2019, she was selected as one of the most influential educators for the Elmbrook School District.

Linnihan earned her bachelor's degree in English and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She furthered her studies at Austin Peay State University with a master's degree in education (curriculum and instruction) and a master's degree in English.