The instructional goal of this video is to provide learners with an understanding of what co-teaching is and what it isn’t. This will then allow them to apply the characteristics of co-teaching to real-life co-teaching scenarios. This video addresses Objective #1 in my course, which states, “Participants will be able to define co-teaching, name its benefits, and explain its characteristics.” This course is built for virtual school teachers, which means that virtual school leaders and teachers are my clients.

In order to create this video, I used Camtasia and Google Slides. I find Camtasia to be incredibly user-friendly. It is easy to record, edit, and add features. I used voice narration to narrate my audio first and then I recorded animations on Google slides. I’m not sure if that was the most efficient way to do this and in the future may navigate the slides as I speak. For my images, I got a subscription to Blush Design. I loved the customizable, diverse, and whimsical images that were provided.

I enjoyed learning how to add and edit captions to my video for accessibility. It was much easier to do this than I had realized and I am excited to now have this tool. I also saw on YouTube that you can specify the Creative Commons license to your video, but near the beginning of my video, I also included my license.

Finally, I struggled with accomplishing everything that I wanted to in this video because I wanted to provide learners with scenarios to analyze after we went over the characteristics of co-teaching, but this would have made my video 5 minutes long. Instead, I decided that this would be a subsequent video.