Over at Windygoul Primary, Emma Griffiths has today posted a short film of small group work in the nursery,  focusing on listening skills, building literacy, and co-operative group behaviour using “The Tiger Who Came To Tea”.

It’s another good example of how the combination of classroom video cameras, combined with web publishing, now enables useful sharing of classroom practice at very low cost.

Another recent example was by Mhairi Stratton of East Lothian’s Maths Recovery team, who published a short video showing how real-world problems can be used to help children develop their own strategies for problem solving.

Here’s an outline of what’s involved in publishing these videos:

1. Connect the video camera and  start iMovie  or Windows Movie Maker.
2. Import the original digital video file.
3. Export the video in a suitable format, e.g. a low resolution Quicktime movie.
4. Upload the video file to Google video, and copy the URL of the video’s web page.
5. In your WordPress post, click the yellow “A” toolbar button (for Anarchy Media Player) and paste the URL in where requested.
6. Publish your post - done!