Instructional Design & Online Assessment
lesson 2
My last new media tool is an app called Coach’s Eye. This is a tool that has gained increasing popularity among physical education teachers. The idea is simple: take a video with a device (camera, phone, iPad, etc.) and upload it to the Coach’s Eye app. I have it on my iPad but sometimes I take videos with my phone; I use a cloud service called Dropbox to store the video file, which then lets me share it on all my other devices. |
Once I have the video file uploaded to Coach’s Eye, I can then use the app to add an additional layer of feedback to the video. For example,
I had a friend of mine video record one of the yoga lessons I created for my website. She sent me the file and I uploaded it to Coach’s Eye on my iPad. Then, watching the video again through the app, I was able to make marks directly onto the video using the touch screen. This allowed me to circle and highlight different points in her progression through the lesson, noting where she needed to improve different aspects of her posture. |
Above: Using App's in the gym. My yoga students learning about correct alignment through the Coaches Eye app on iPhone/iPad.
Coach’s Eye also allows teachers to record voice comments, suggestions, and feedback over the video, so that students not only see the different highlights on the screen about where to improve their physical performance, but can also hear direct comments from the teacher. For my colleagues, I would suggest trying out Coach’s Eye as a different approach to formative assessment to any number of tasks, assignments, and projects – and not just for physical education but where ever visual performance is a part of learning. |
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