{"id":2856,"date":"2016-05-03T19:24:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:24:50","slug":"course-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/2016\/05\/03\/course-trailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Video course trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our university is moving to Canvas<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n

One feature\u00a0I'm looking forward to utilizing is way Canvas<\/a>\u00a0approaches syllabi. The dates that many faculty re-create each and every semester at the bottom of their syllabi are auto-populated by whatever assignments and other date-related items you enter within the learning management system (LMS).<\/p>\n

Above those dates is an empty space, just waiting for a professor to get creative…<\/p>\n

\"2016-05-03_18-49-54\"<\/p>\n

At the 2016 OLC Innovate conference<\/a>, I saw a plethora of ways faculty are using either a custom course home page, or the top of the syllabus page to draw students in… This isn't specific to Canvas and would work in any learning management system (LMS).<\/p>\n

I'm thinking I would like to use video to develop a sense of curiosity about my classes within an online syllabus.<\/p>\n

Video course trailers<\/h2>\n

Thanks to Derek Bruff<\/a>, I rediscovered what are called course trailers. These are similar to move trailers, but rather than getting students excited about a forthcoming movie, you get them excited about your class.<\/p>\n

Duke has an introduction on how to create video course trailers<\/a>, while there are plenty of other places to go for inspiration.<\/p>\n

Harvard was one of the earliest developers of course trailers. They have a collection of trailers for their general ed courses<\/a>\u00a0and also from their school of government courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This trailer\u00a0for a C.S. Lewis course<\/a> is very inspiring. I suspect it could leave some faculty perceiving that the process of making a course trailer is too daunting, after watching it, however.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/vimeo.com\/album\/2977329\/video\/47097354<\/p>\n

Most of the trailers that I watched seemed to be geared toward attempting to persuade a potential student to take a particular course. Our department is such that getting students to enroll in my classes isn't typically the problem. Instead, I would like to have a course trailer to get them excited about what they are going to learn, once they have registered for\u00a0one of my classes.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/vimeo.com\/album\/2977329\/video\/20933798<\/p>\n

Should any of us desire another resource for how to make a course trailer, this post from the University of Mary Washington<\/a> should meet that need.<\/p>\n

[reminder]What will you be working on over the summer to incorporate into your future classes? [\/reminder]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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