Ready for some examples from online courses?

Let's take a peek at some additional examples of brief, imperfect videos from real online instructors to get you excited about humanizing your online course. As you will see, humanized videos aren't polished and perfect. They're real ... just like you.

Queen Peterson, Fullerton College

Recorded with a webcam or smartphone.

Fabiola Torres, Glendale College – Quarantine Field Trip.

https://youtu.be/lvv99DH8Rrk

Recorded with a smartphone.

Mieke Lisuk, Sierra College, Women in American History

https://youtu.be/Vnej6_DquHg

Recorded using a smartphone or webcam.

Maneesh Dhagat, Foothill College: "Adding the videos certainly did wonders for retention (# of students not dropping the class) for me."Introduction to Programming

Recorded using Screencast-O-Matic, Zoom, or Camtasia (not free).

Kristen Bourgault, Quinnipiac University

Instructional Design

Recorded using a smartphone or webcam.

Kolleen Kalt, Cerritos College: "I teach Freshman Composition, and I've started giving a lot of video feedback for drafts. Students LOVE it and I feel that my comments come across a lot better when I say them instead of write them (or may students don't read the written comments?). This first video is a response to a student who revealed to me that she had experienced some trauma. The issue has been resolved, so there wasn't a need to connect her to services, so this video is me providing some empathy while also giving essay feedback. I'm also sick and coughing in it, so it's very 'human!'"English Composition

Recorded using a smartphone or webcam.

Amber Katherine, Santa Monica College

https://youtu.be/i7VD2nVgbT8

Recorded with a smartphone or webcam.

Arnita Porter, West LA College

https://youtu.be/Vzx-SQQIClY

Recorded with a smartphone or webcam.

Dayamudra Dennehy, City College of San Francisco, on Instagram

(this video would also have been included in Canvas)

Recorded using Clips (for iOS/Apple mobile devices only) .

Amy Merkel, Santa Rosa Junior College

Counseling

Arnita Porter, West Los Angeles College

https://youtu.be/Vzx-SQQIClY

Recorded with a webcam or smartphone.

Maryanne Mills, West Valley College: "This was one of my first videos created with a green screen in the back. I make a bit of a joke about my green hair late in the video."Library Research

Recorded with Adobe Spark.

Alexis Litzsky, Community College of San Francisco: "The video I chose to share is something new I started doing after completing my @ONE humanizing class. I have students complete a knowledge survey (via a google form) and then take some of the highlights and questions and put them into a video. It gives me an opportunity to share information about the students with each, and answer some of their questions about my teaching and the class. I've gotten quite a bit of positive feedback from students about this video. They really appreciate seeing the dynamic presentation of the information and feel like they get to know me better, which is certainly the point! :) "

Communication Studies

Recorded with Adobe Spark.

Sarah Williams, Foothill College

https://youtu.be/bIjWhaki7Wo

Recorded with a webcam or smartphone.

Kimberly Pippa Tonnesen, Columbia Community CollegeEnglish

Recorded with Adobe Spark.

Lauren Wade, San Diego Mesa College, "Love what it [humanizing] has done for my classes. My students are really enjoying my accounting classes now that I've humanized them. It [the @ONE Humanizing course] was probably the most useful [professional development] course I have ever taken."Financial Accounting

Recorded with a smartphone.

Nicki Trahan, City College of San Francisco, "My audience is ESL students; without the humanizing element, I would never be able to retain these students in an online class. I am eternally grateful for what I learned in this [humanizing] class last year. This video isn't an extremely creative one, but it's a big deal for me because until I took this class I was very shy about being on camera. But I now make them even for my face-to-face classes without giving it a second thought."English Language

Recorded with Zoom.

Safa Khan, Chemistry faculty, CSU Channel Islands

About Dr. Khan

Recorded with Adobe Spark.

Stacey Anderson, English faculty, CSU Channel Islands

English 330 Welcome

Recorded with a smartphone.

Soodeh Nezam Abadi, Nutrition faculty, San Diego Mesa College

https://youtu.be/oODw5Fl6-EA