KQED Center for Education and Lifelong Learning CELL supports a broad range of KQED programming and includes services for schools, families, and kids. Programing details and teaching materials are offered through this online resource. Program guides available via the World Wide Web include content guides and student activity sheets. This document, developed by KQED describes activities that can make learning with videos more powerful. Most schools have at least one camcorder available for classroom use.
Camcorders are great for any number of different purposes.
Even so, they are probably one of the most under used technologies in a school. News programs are developed, produced and distributed by individual classes, leadership groups or multiage teams to increase a school's sense of community. Students use the visual and auditory properties of video to create a unique product that represents their learning on a particular topic. KQED offers some great tips on ways educators can use camcorders in teaching and learning environments. A video tape containing excerpts from UC Santa Barbara's America's Smartest School Video contest is on reserve for in the Audio Visual Center at SSU's Ruben Salazar Library if you'd like to see specific examples of these ideas.