Hi! So, are you enticed about the video e-mail possibilities for Eyejot to enhance your teaching and professional communications? Click here for a brief tutorial. If you haven't yet checked out my initial demonstration of Eyejot, see my blog post on Friday, July 23, 2010.
Once you've used Eyejot to send video e-mails, you might decide to use the Eyejot This! plug-in for web browsers, which will enable you to send students, colleagues and friends links to any webpage along with a video commentary provided by you -- pretty neat if you want to contextualize and/or direct viewer attention to particular website features. Click here for a brief tutorial.
So, why use these? Because e-mail is an efficient and accessible form of communication, but it's also one that can be easy to ignore, especially for students. If one of the things you want to accomplish as a teacher is a social presence and rapport with students, providing a video can provide what may be the best approximation of face-to-face interaction (short of synchronous video messaging like Skype) in an online environment. If another thing you want to do is to increase the likelihood that students will engage in course work and resources outside of class, using tactics like reminders and brief explanations might provide some extra incentive... and, potentially, using video might improve the effectiveness of such messages by making them more personalized, engaging, and novel (i.e., more fun, and with your own personal presence).
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