Breaking News: Utilizing Video Simulations to Improve Educational Leaders’ Public Speaking Skills

• In Event: Effective Use of Technology in Principal Preparation Programs: Perspectives of Educational Leadership Candidates and Faculty

Abstract

This paper examines specific uses of video simulations in one educational leadership preparation program to advance future school and district leaders’ skills related to public speaking and participation in televised news interviews. Several applications of advanced technologies, including one-on-one video simulations with the instructor and collaborative review of video portfolios, are shared with experiential perspectives from one faculty member and two advanced educational leadership candidates. Finally, links to multimedia examples of these digital artifacts of learning are provided. Finally, this paper will be accompanied by multimedia examples of these digital artifacts of learning.

Authors

• Jennifer Ingrid Friend, University of Missouri - Kansas City

• April Adams, Liberty High School

• George Curry, Smithville School District