I think that the biggest issue of concern in presenting video to classes is the need to keep the students engaged in active learning. Karppinen talks about the need for real learning to be engaging but also to represent running up against something new. Real learning is often somewhat uncomfortable. It's the whole zone of proximal development, etc., etc.
Some of the ideas I've seen on people's blogs seem very effective at building that kind of real challenge into video lessons. I think assembling multiple clips or multiple videos for the same topic can be a very effective approach.
For my PACT unit, coming up next week, I'm going to use clips of slam poetry and music videos to talk about public presentations of identity. Clips are a way to bring in a wide range of perspectives quickly. I have some clips that are very different from each other, which provides a great opportunity to get the kids thinking about the big ideas that will come up in the unit on cultural repression, identity and code switching.
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