Digital Video: A Guide for the Perplexed

This page is a product of the Cognitive Development Lab at Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The use of video records in education research has the potential to open new windows on the processes involved in teaching and learning. Yet the current digital revolution in video technology has instilled technophobia in the hearts of many. This Guide for the Perplexed is an attempt to demystify the processes involved in the use of digital video.

Be fearless! Go digital!

Why Digital? Compelling reasons to go digital

Data Collection Equipment decisions, camera features, practical tips for videotaping

Creating a Visual Record Capturing, editing, compressing, and storing video data

Analysis Tools Using SMIL and TransTool to transcribe, synchronize, edit, code and add other information to visual data

Other Links Links to good information about many aspects of digital video

Who We Are This website was an integral part of the session on 'Digital video records of classroom mathematics: How to make them and what we can learn from them' at the 2002 AERA Annual Meeting. Find out more about the session and the presenters here

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Last revised by Sujai Aug 5,2002

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