In a class that I am co-teaching with an excellent practitioner (here), we are asking our students to create a two-minute “explainer” video that highlights a few key points from the reading and raises a couple of questions for discussion.

In fairness to my students, I elected to subject myself to the same exercise, based on media training I received at a recent workshop from the amazing Brent Durbin.

We did a before and after video.  You can see the after video here.

 

 

I look forward to reporting on how this worked in the classroom.  For more on the “explainer” –

“The Explainer” as a journalistic form –

www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/06/economist-explains-3

http://archive.pressthink.org/2008/08/13/national_explain.html

 

Examples of “explainer” videos (most of these have many more graphics than we will have)

http://hbr.org/video/3590615226001/the-explainer-porters-five-forces

http://news.discovery.com/history/videos/what-is-isis-video-140623.htm