Digital Video - Cool Tool!

I was fascinated to learn the use of digital video. As a learner, it was exciting and engaging. It truly gave me the sense of being a designer and encouraged the concept of creativity. As an instructor, it would be a very cool tool to use - but only with careful implementation and planning. It can be very easy to get distracted by the tool and lose focus of what the lesson may truly want to accomplish. As with any tool, it is very important to determing the final goal of the lesson and then select the proper tool that can be used to achieve that goal. (affordance). Also - it would be very important to allow time to teach proper methods in actually using this tool, before creating tasks or assigments for the students to complete. Time and proper working technology are common challenges, but with proper planning - it can be a tool that can generate thinking, learning, collaboration, creativity, designing, excitement and technological growth. Sounds like a cool tool to me.