About Prerecording Lessons

Jeff Edmonds, Digital Learning Environment Blogs, Technology & Learning, suggests the prerecording lessons gives more one-on-one time with students. When looking for a way to provide more feedback to his seventh grade math students at Catherine Cook School in Chicago, he decided to prerecord lessons (using software that allows him to capture strokes of a stylus and audio at the same time) and email them to his students ahead of time. While the students work on the lessons on their laptops, Edmonds goes around the classroom to work with individual students. His students work directly with him on one or two of the problems and then at the end of the class session, there’s time for group questions and explanations. Edmunds explains that he doesn’t do this type of lesson every day, but when he does, it’s a great way to help him understand how to help each student.