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. Finally, Apple Computer has a web site containing some wonderful examples of student and teacher work using their newest product called iMovie. It combines the power of digital camcorders and simple video editing software.
Distance learning refers to the transmission of course information over physical distances.
Class members do not necessarily come together at the same time and place for formal instruction. Correspondence classes sent via the postal service were the first form of distance learning over 100 years ago. Today many different technologies including video, telephones, and the Internet can be used to support distance learning. As schools wrestle with problems of safety, facility shortages, and parental choice, distance learning will emerge as one partial solution. What follows is a fact sheet from the U.S. Distance Learning Association about current trends with Distance Learning.