Story Videos for Online Learning

Corey G-ForcesIn 2013  Seligo began to collaborate with Anne Friedlander by recording and editing stories for her Exercise Physiology classes (Humbio135s and Humbio135.)  In her spring seminar Professor Friedlander asked her students to create audio stories on a topic in Exercise Physiology for their final project and, with a faculty seed grant from the VPOL, Seligo videorecorded and edited nine lectures for the Storytelling and Science series by the Director of the Storytelling Project, Jonah Willihnganz.  This allowed the students to watch these videos online in order to learn how to better communicate science in story form.  At the same time, with additional travel support from the Dean of H&S, TA support from Humbio, and Technical Support from the VPOL, Seligo accompanied Friedlander to many locations to record and edit video stories:  in Las Vegas, laboratories at MIT, at Harvard and USARIEUM in Massachusetts, and even to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. Two of these videos, shot on campus in the Heller Lab, were shown in the Fall in a blended course, while the Graduate School of Education’s Karin Forssell tried to measure how the stories improved retention and learning outcomes.  And in 2014 all seven of the videos introduced each unit of a Stanford Open edX MOOC: Your Body in the World: Adapting to Your Next Big Adventure.

 

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