Video tutorials and the blended classroom

What I enjoy about a blended delivery classroom is making content available online for review or to help a student become successful with Homework.  I would like to create my own tutorials eventually but have had a lot of luck finding great videos already out there.  I also feel that sometimes seeing the material in another way or from another persons perspective can help with student comprehension.  We all know there is usually more than one way to skin a cat.  It also helps cut down on class time reviewing allowing for more higher order thinking in the classroom.

For my unit the students will need to balance chemical reactions and identify the reaction type.  Many of my ninth grade students are familiar with balancing equations from 8th grade but some come with no idea.  In class I will go over the vocabulary products, reactants, yields, coefficients, subscripts and the law of conservation if mass.  To ensure the students will understand what I am talking about in my instruction.  I will usually work one or two problems with them in class and send them home with plenty of practice.

The following video will serve as extra instruction to aid with their homework.  They will also be able to post questions they may have while viewing the video that I can address in class.