\u2022 Create free text annotations
\u2022 Create structured annotations based on (scaled) categories\/variables
\u2022 Sharing annotations with other users, either publicly or with instructors only
\u2022 Adding comments to annotations<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMyself and my colleagues use classroom videos in seminars for student teachers to promote students\u2019 professional vision of classroom management. When analyzing the classroom videos, the students are asked to follow four steps of analysis:
\u2022 description of the situation,
\u2022 interpretation with regard to the categories of classroom management,
\u2022 evaluation of the teacher\u2019s behaviour, and
\u2022 generation of alternative courses of action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the analyses are likely to differ from each other and it is time-consuming to relocate the exact section of the classroom video, the plenary discussion of the students\u2019 analyses can be challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OAT is very helpful for visualizing the students\u2019 analyses and therefore supports the collaborative analysis of classroom videos: First, we added the categories of classroom management (monitoring, managing momentum, rules and routines<\/em>) and their facets to the tool. Each student or small work groups coded the classroom video by using these categories and facets of classroom management. As OAT links the coding directly to the video, it is very easy to access the marked sections later on and present the analyses to others. The students added comments to their structured annotations in OAT to write down the detailed analysis (description, interpretation, evaluation, courses of action). To compare the analyses, the students shared their annotations publicly with the other students. As the different categories are marked by different colours, OAT is very helpful to identify dissimilarities in the time line at first glance. The students used OAT to comment on their fellow students\u2019 analyses directly. OAT saves the annotations in the digital learning environment, e.g. Moodle, so that students can use them in the course of the semester, e.g. while preparing for the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After becoming familiar with OAT, both students and instructors appreciated the analysis of classroom videos with OAT: \u201cMatching the different tracks in the tool was very interesting. It\u2019s great that you have very quick and easy access to the tracks of the others and their notes on the classroom videos, also after the end of the seminar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Ed. Christina Gippert<\/strong>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Assistant, Institute for Psychology in Education and Instruction (IPBE), University of M\u00fcnster, Germany<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Classrooms videos are a standard learning object in teacher training; analyzing them collaboratively is a challenge for both students and instructors. This use case from the Institute of Psychology in Education and Instruction, University of M\u00fcnster in Germany, demonstrates how the Opencast Annotation Tool supports students in improving their professional vision of classroom interactions. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[270,4],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-av-technologies","category-featured-articles","tag-opencast"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/12\/bigstock-Rear-view-of-kids-raising-hand-292192588.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sally Reynolds","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/sally-reynolds\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/12\/christina.jpg\")
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