My experience with trying out H5P was more complicated than I initially expected it to be. I have been practicing with screencastify over this semester, so if I was able to upload my video, adding interactions seemed like it would be easy enough. I took the steps of recording the video that I made the storyboard for in a previous week and tried to upload it. Unfortunately I was met with a pop-up about an incorrect security token and was unable to give it a try. If I was able to upload it I think having the ability to ask check in questions along the way of videos is super useful. If I am discussing a topic and then ask a question about it, if someone answers it incorrectly they are able to watch that part back again right away so they can better understand what I was discussing. I was going to use the check in questions along the way of my video for practice. For example, after I introduce that I am making a strawberry margarita, a question would pop up asking: What alcohol does a margarita traditionally use? And have tequila, vodka, and rum as potential answers. The next section lets them know what I use. I was also at the end going to ask whether or not people would want one. While a video about a cocktail is not super important, the function of gathering feedback could be a really useful tool in the future.
While I have not been able to access H5P, I have added down below the video that I created from my storyboard as well as the original storyboard again.
In this course I have found the balance of passive and active learning extremely helpful. Throughout highschool I found that like in this course the active learning was much greater than the passive. This was helpful because I am someone who needs to practice something to understand and achieve it properly. However, entering my first year of university last year I noticed the gap that most courses have between active and passive learning. For example, the only required activity in my statistics course was to attend the midterms and the final. There were practice questions in the textbook but never any quizzes or required practice. This made it difficult to learn something well. I find if I am not actively practicing I try and learn things by memorization rather than by technique which can be very difficult especially with something as complex as statistics. I found in this course in particular that the active and passive learning balance was really well done. I was able to listen to the weekly videos and read the requirements and then was able to spend the week practicing before submitting my blog post showing my new skills.
Lily Brice shares the experience with the balance of passive and active learning in different educational settings. She found active learning to be more effective for her as she require practice to fully understand and achieve her goals. However, she has noticed that many university courses have a significant gap between active and passive learning, with a greater emphasis on passive learning.