How is our course going at school?

The staff are very enthusiatic. The only real problem is that some of them have opened accounts with user names and passwords that they can't remember. Hopefully we will have everyone finished by the closing date!

Module 5

DIGITAL STORYTELLING - PODS, VODS, VIDEOS AND WEB 2.0

I have been using videos from Teacher Tube for 2 years now. They have some very good story starters and stimulus material for Mathematics problems.

One of the problems with YouTube is that you can easlily be caught with inappropriate content. It is important to have an account and save the suitable videos to your favourites. We also need to be careful with adding content to YouTube and that students and parents have given their informed consent.

This year we have done some work with the students making their own pods and we will eventually move on to making vods. At the moment these are added to myclasses so the students can use them on our own system.

Module 4

PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ON THE WEB

My web application of choice for photos is Picasa (Google has got me with all their applications!). They now have a version for Mac, and one of the really 'cool' features is face recognition, also found in Aperture. The only downside is the amount of storage space available.

The selling point for Flickr is the royalty free content, and the work they are doing with different galleries around the world.

We are currently working on getting students to include in any digital work a reference as to where an image came from - a digital bibliography. Students need to be awars that just as they can't copy great slabs of text from the web, neither can they copy unacknowledged photos or videos.

You will see that there is now a Creative Commons license notice at the bottom (footer) of this blog.