The Video Projects

There were a lot of confusions in my classes regarding our class activity and the video submissions. The class activity was a push the students to individually submit their videos to qualify for the final exams. I explained that the four choices - self-introduction, simulated job application, audition or how to - could be used by any students. The groups working on the class activity, however, were only given a combination of two choices.

Throughout the week, only one video from a group was submitted. This was from group 4 of Class 06111. Last week, I contacted the student who appeared on the video and commented on their work. In effect, my comment was "if she was to use the video to apply for a job, she wouldn't get it." She was disappointed at first but asked for help.

We worked together last weekend to create a clip called "My College and Some of the Other Things I Do in School" which was a short introduction of our college and some of her activities. It is a short 2-minute video which had a few explanations and a lot of actions. See it for yourself.



There was a funny thing though. I intentionally made a mistake to see if there were any students who would notice it. At the beginning of the semester, I stated that the deadline for the video submissions to qualify for the final exams was a month before the final exams. A couple of weeks ago I began saying to them that the videos were to be handed in on or before the May holidays, which is a month earlier than the deadline I set at the beginning of the term. We'll see who complies. Those who submitted their videos earlier will get extra credits and those who couldn't will be informed that they can still submit theirs but only on or before the real deadline.