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My students had completed many of these activities on their own throughout the semester, so they knew what the possibilities were. However, it is a whole new level of thought that needs to go into creating an active learning lesson. My students did alright on this one, though most of the lessons were fairly generic.
## Video Lesson
The third teaching item was to [create a video lesson](http://sergeballif.github.io/NSC-Math-181/CoreLearning/Math181TeachingItem3.pdf) on an important topic from the course. The videos varied greatly in quality and content. Some students did a basic screencast where they worked a few examples. Others filmed a mock tutoring session where one student asked questions while the other explained. Some of the explanations were right on point, and others were vague and showed a lack of understanding. Most of the videos could have been greatly improved just by planning out the dialog in advance. None of the videos would earn any awards. Once again most of the students seemed to appreciate the video lesson teaching item.
The overall feedback was very positive. The grading workload was not terribly onerous, but I will need to plan my time better next time. My students in advanced classes performed surprisingly well. One nice side effect of the teaching items is that I never heard any complaints about the textbook. When students had to make their own explanations, they realized how difficult it could be to explain things in a simple way.
Next time around I plan to require peer reviews for each submission. I didn't distribute the teaching items as learning material for the rest of the class because it hadn't been vetted, and most of the content had errors that I didn't want to disseminate. However, I would have loved to see some more dialog between the students on the things they got out of each activity.
