Video Production in the classroom is a very powerful tool. I plan to make tremendous use of it by turning my classroom and Information Technology program into one that uses the IPASS system. IPASS is a program that was designed and developed by one of our very own Greene County Career Center teachers. Bill Poe has taught drafting at GCCC for almost 30 years. He has had many national winners in his CTSO competitions. Years ago Bill saw the need to be able to have a curriculum that would allow students of all abilities to work at their max pace. He developed IPASS to do this. The teacher becomes more of a facilitator and a tutor under the IPASS program.
I plan to turn my A+ PC Repair and Troubleshooting, my Network +, my Visual Basic Programming, and my Visual C++ programming strands all into individual IPASS strands. This will take a couple of years to complete. I will video every lesson I present and turn these videos into DVDs that student may check out and do. The concept of IPASS is that a student does not move on to a new concept or lesson until he/she has sufficiently mastered the current one. It is entirely up to each student as to how much or how little they do. It is spelled out in black and white on a chart what their grade for the period will be.
Getting the videos together will be the biggest challenge. What I have learned the last few weeks with photoshop and moviemaker and the other tools I have played with has made me even more eager to get started on this. I have been putting it off because it seems like a huge undertaking (it is) and I could not decide where to begin. No I have an idea.
The videos under IPASS will allow me to let students work at their own speed. No longer will I hold anyone back while waiting on slower students to catch up or catch on.
Powerful tools we have these days!
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Enjoyed your video productions!
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