VideoTeaching.com -- free resource

VideoTeaching.Com is a tremendous free resource that you should check out. Skilled presenters (mostly pastors and teachers) have provided high quality video recordings of their sermons or lessons.

Why and When to Use These Videos

I generally feel a local teacher is going to be the strongest teacher for a particular group of people. God works through them!

I'm not, therefore, advocating that you abandon efforts to create your own lessons, nor give up on interactive style of teaching. These videos are excellent content, very well produced, that you can incorporate into your lessons or play when you need a change of pace. You should still work hard to give people context at the beginning, and then provide some interaction time at the end of the video. Or just use relevant excerpts if the content matches.

These videos would be useful for small groups, or as a backup option for a situation where a teacher might not be available.

Mechanics

How-to details are available at their tech help page. If you don’t have a high speed Internet connection and an ability to play back video from a PC (or know how to move the video to a DVD), this just isn’t going to be for you. If you're daunted at the thought of the technical steps, check with some teenagers or young adults in your sphere of influence. They're using industry standard formats, and free software on most newer PCs or Macs will be adequate to use these videos.

You must have lead time to prepare! This is not really for a last-minute situation. You can only download the videos, they will not send you DVDs.

Speakers and topics available

There is an outstanding list of presenters. You can browse topics or do a keyword search to find relevant content. They will continue to add videos over time.

Another important way teachers should use these videos

You can learn a lot just from watching these videos, and dissecting how the speakers do their presentation. These men have developed their presentation craft to a high level. Watch a couple different speakers, and take notes about their introductions (hooks), illustrations, structure of the content, points of application.

You need to become the teacher God wants you to be, but there are always things to learn and skills to improve.