The video technology in communication interaction and learning

Citação bibliográfica: Caldas, José & SILVA, Bento (2002). The Video Technology in Communication Interaction and Learning. In Antonio Vilas, José González & Inés Zaldívar (cords.). Educational Technology: International Conference on ICT’s in Education, tomo II. Badajoz: Junta de Extremadura, pp. 1010-1014We have carried out a research work on the using of video technology in the classroom context and its effects on the communicative interaction, learning and expressiveness and, too, its effects as an instrument of Education for the Media. The video modalities used, that assumed the shape: of a teaching/learning strategy in the classroom, were: the video-lesson and the video production. The research methodology used fits in the ambit of the development methodologies and it was applied to 10th grade students. The research results point out 10 an increase of the interaction in the classroom, the contents learning, the practice of autonomy and investigation processes, the pleasure of learning and participating and the expressiveness on the students' side, as a result of video's usage. We have noticed, equally, a positive attitude towards the media, so that using the video as a teaching/learning strategy is a way of contributing to the Education for the Media