Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Studiocode is an application that is used to capture and analyze video. Originally used in analysis of athletics, the College of Education is now applying it to helping student teachers apply learning and teaching theory to teaching.

This tool allows the students to document their teaching in order to provide hard evidence of their skills.

A reverse use of the tool is to take video of expert teachers and "code" them for application of educational theory.

An especially useful feature is that the various "tracks" are saved independent of the actual video allowing the smaller tracks to be passed around as well as compiled without having to also pass the much larger video files as well. Although the video file is needed, it can reside on the users' computers and the tracks can just be "pointed" to the video.

Another helpful feature is the ability to compile clips marked with the same criteria, allowing students to watch themselves exhibiting the same behavior in different circumstances -- making correction and improvement easier.

After video has been captured and tagged, it can be stored in such a was as to allow easy searching allowing illustration of points, skills, topics, etc. with "instant" retrieval.

There are a few issues associated with the use of this application including that the application is exclusively Mac based, signed permissions are often needed, the network needs to have enough bandwidth to accommodate large video files, and storage facilities need to be able to accommodate large files.

Discussion continued with several ideas suggested for use of this tool including analyzing student group interactions and helping student advisers improve their advising skills.