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Simple Methods for Making Common Craft–Style Videos for Teaching

Credit: iStock.com/fatido
Credit: iStock.com/fatido
At heart, teaching is about explaining something in a way that another understands. But it’s easy to forget this simple fact and fall into a “covering content” mentality rather than a “producing understanding” mindset. This is where we walk through information like reading a textbook without thinking in terms of communicating with our students, which is akin to using PowerPoint for a marriage proposal.

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