Nina Barber sent me some short clips from one of my sessions in Las Vegas. I noticed that the clarity of my teaching, which is totally dependent on pacing, SLOW, wait time, pointing to the targets in real time with laser or hand, seemed a lot more distorted in the video, whereas I know that it was completely clear when I was doing it, because my audience was completely with me.
One of these two things is true. Either:
- I was wrong about how clear my teaching was (i.e. I was getting a false read from my audience) or
- the medium of the video was distorting the clarity of my teaching.
Obviously, this is quite important as we try to figure out if video clips of ourselves teaching can be of use in our work together in this PLC.
I am asking for opinions of other teachers who have recorded themselves teaching. Honestly, I can’t figure it out – what feels like real clear teaching with really clear responses from my audience doesn’t look that way on tape.
Any ideas or comments on this are welcome.