Video at Open House From Jan Stoffel, a family and consumer studies teacher at North Bend High School in North Bend, Oregon: ìIn the fall we hold the traditional open house for parents to come to school in the evening and meet the teachers. The parents follow their childís schedule for shortened classes. One idea that has worked well for me in my activity-centered classes is to video tape the students busy working on a project a few days prior to the open house. As we know, a picture is worth a thousand words and parents love to see their children on TV. I keep the video quite short (four to five minutes) and make an effort to film every student at least three times. I leave the sound off because I feel safer about what will be on the clip! I narrate what is going on as they watch. Parents love it and my evening is far more relaxed spending part of each period narrating video rather than my presentation being the center of attention for the whole period.î