- Sample VSM Videos from Hawaii—Leon and Deon were learning to cope with the stress of taking tests! In this clip, video self modeling was used to show Leon using self-management techniques to control nervousness during a test. Seeing himself being successful at doing something that he previously couldn’t do (even with the counselor’s help) enabled him to really do it, even in tough exams. He became Student of the Quarter, thanks to his movie.
- Corel VideoStudio Tutorial—Instructions for using Corel VideoStudio video editing and DVD authoring software.
- iMovie Tutorial—Getting started with iMovie video editing software.
- Video Futures Project—This site was built as a federally funded multi-year project, at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Center for Human Development. It demonstrates research-to-practice special purpose applications of video technology, especially self modeling. Video Futures is an overall term used to describe video strategies that show any positive future for oneself.
- Making (and Keeping) Friends: A Model for Social Skills Instruction—This web-based article by Dr. Scott Bellini of the Indiana Resource Center for Autism addresses social skill deficits in children and adolescents with ASD by providing a five stage model for social skills instruction, with particular emphasis on videotaped self modeling (VSM).
- VSM: Video Self Modeling—Applications of video self modeling were carried out by Dr. Tom Buggey of the University of Tennessee and the RISE staff to improve speech, language, and other behavior. Using basic video production techniques, images of behaviors that pose special challenges can be altered and enhanced.
- When Feedback Doesn’t Work, Try Feedforward! (PDF Format)—This article (pg. 10-14) from the Kentucky Department of Education is about the use of video images to show students themselves doing the skills or behaviors they need to learn. Students become their own role models in brief, “see it, be it” videos. Instead of getting negative feedback about incorrect activity, they get positive “feedforward” depicting their future success.
- Watching videos can help children with autism learn social skills—Two 2006 studies at Indiana University demonstrate that videos depicting exemplary behaviors can be effective in helping children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders develop social skills and daily living skills. Includes video self modeling.
- Self-Determination with Video Empowerment—An overview of a conference presentation that used video futures techniques to promote “visualization” and “self modeling”. Dr. James Skouge of the University of Hawaii and his colleagues were able to create visual stories or “plays” in which people with disabilities explore alternative futures and act out their dreams.
- Feedforward, Behavioral and Cognitive Science—Feedforward, Behavior and Cognitive Science is a method of teaching and learning that illustrates or indicates a desired future behavior or path to a goal. Feedforward provides information, images, etc. exclusively about what one could do right in the future, often in contrast to what one has done in the past. The feedforward method of teaching and learning is in contrast to feedback concerning human behavior because it focuses on learning in the future, whereas feedback uses information from a past event to provide reflection and the basis for behaving and thinking differently.
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