At NECC, Presenters from Innovative Video in Education (IVIE) are showing some great examples of student produced videos that speak to a “millenium student’s” need to use various forms of multimedia to facilitate learning.

They describe students as digital natives vs. digital immigrants. Adults are DSL –digital as a second language. Students want to learn with technlogy, with one anohter, online, in their time, in their place, doing things that matter. And the process of video supports that: brainstorm, story board, write/revise script, tape, edit final draft, publish. Video involves every aspect of a student’s creativity.

We can use video to reach some of the standards that we couldn’t otherwise achieve. And video production is supported by a wide variety of learning theory including constructivist, multiple intelligences, transfer and more. It’s active learning that sticks, that makes connections in the brain. In many ways that I’ll try to get into later, it parallels to what we can do with Weblogs, especially in the area of constructivist thought.

Some really amazing examples of ways to use video to facilitate learning. The website has most of videos for viewing.

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Let me just say that I feel incredibly fortunate to have been invited to be a part of Intel CEO Craig Barrett’s keynote speech this morning at NECC. It was an amazingly fun experience for me and my student who was on stage with me, and it was also without question the best opportunity I’ve had yet to sing the praises of Weblogs in the classroom. Over 800 people attended the session, and I’ve had dozens of people come up to me throughout the day wanting to know more about we’ve been doing and how to do it. To top it off Intel produced just a great video about Weblogs at our school which really captured the essence of the potential of the technology. It was just an honor to be a part of it.

On some level, I’m still amazed that our little “secret” finally seems to be showing up on a lot of radar screens. Anne’s session was well attended, and there were at least five other blog learning opportunities. There’s a birds of a feather in a couple of hours that we’ll be blogging I’m sure. Expectations for a serious blogging lineup in Philadelphia for next year’s NECC are already high.

I can’t wait.

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Web Logs for Schools and Educators

 

Proposal—This is an e-book that we sell through eBN, Lockergnome, TechLearning, etc. Pdf. Format. If we can sell a print version, great.

 

Chapter 1–Intro to Web logs

·        What is a Web log?

·        History of Web logs

·        How are Web logs used in schools?

o       Classroom Portal

o       Digital Portfolio

o       Online Filing Cabinet

o       Collaborative Space

o       Web site

o       Communication Tool

o       Knowledge Management

o       Mentoring

·        How Web logs work

 

Chapter 2–Theory and rationale for classroom use

·         Why Web logs?

§         Digital paper

§         Medium of choice for students

§         Audience

§         Ownership

§         Archive of learning

§         Active participant

·        Improving your practice

§         Reflective journal

§         <o:p> </o:p>

 

Chapter 3–Best practices/ Teacher stories

·        Project descriptions by teachers K-12

·        College

 

Chapter 4– Designing and implementing Web logs in the classroom

·        Collaborations

·        Class portals

·        Electronic portfolios

·        Electronic filing cabinets

·        Key tips for use

o       Designing discussion questions to prevent copying of ideas

·        Use as a way to Connect with parents

 

Chapter 5– Privacy and safety issues

·        Identifying students

·        Editorial permissions

·        Publishing

·        Copyright

·        Legal liability

·        Cheating and plagiarism

·        CIPA COPPA

 

Chapter 6—Web logs in other contexts

·        Professional development (Pam)

·        Web site

·        Class, school, district portfolio

·        Knowledge management

·        Professional collaboration

 

Chapter 7—Web Log as Website

·        Process

 

Chapter 8—Web logs and RSS

·        What is RSS?

·        Using RSS effectively

·        Overview of tools

 

Chapter 9—Moblogging, audblogging, videoblogging and more

·        Including multimedia

 

Chapter 10—Software and hardware considerations

·        Overview of most popular software programs

·        Hosting options

·        Hardware requirements

·        Technical Support

 

Chapter 11—Moveable Type

·        Features

·        Basic use

·        Examples

 

Chapter 12—Manila

·        Features

·        Basic use

·        Examples

 

Chapter 13—Blogger and other free hosting

 

Chapter 14—Resources

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