One saying I remember hearing from my undergraduate years was "Never show a video just to show a video, don't use the time to be off doing other tasks." If we want our students to get anything from a video we must first be engaged in the video ourselves.
I really like the table from the second reading "Media in the classroom". It is very good at describing where we should be going with how to use educational video's. I don't think that we should be substituting videos for traditional education but rather using them as a springboard for students to try and make a bigger connection to the material we are trying to teach. Personally I like to have students make presentations including videos on a specific topic and see how they run with the ideas. Speaking from experience, we must make sure to give them some guidelines though, so that they know the boundaries they need to stay within.
I also really enjoyed the Wiki Book about Blended Learning in K-12 environments. It was very informative in a historical way as well as new idea's like virtual field trips. My librarian was telling me about virtual field trips last year and I didn't have a clue what she was talking about but then as I started to research them I found how interesting and exciting they can be. I don't know that I have a medium for using them at the moment but I would love the opportunity to use them in the future.
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Week 2 Blog
Video in the Classroom:
My thoughts as I was reading this article were that too often we, as teachers, put a video in while we sit in the back of the room and grade papers. As I observe students or ask them questions at the end of a video, I usually find that they might be quiet and appear to be watching the video, but they aren't really getting anything out of it. I've started using video clips rather than entire videos to reinforce or introduce information we are learning in class.
Media in the Classroom:
I am a a strong believer in the power of video in the classroom. Most students are so engaged and willing to learn and research information when they using the information to create a product such as a video.
Multimedia Journalism:
My thoughts as I was reading this article were probably not what was intended by the author. When I read about the university whose curriculum is “broad but not deep”, I thought about the importance of teaching our students to think critically about what they are reading. Our students are bombarded with misinformation on the Web and in print. When I was growing up, the information you read in a newspaper, magazine, or saw on the evening news was not questioned. Now, the information comes so fast, the printing process has sped up dramatically that the rush to provide information to the public sometimes means that facts are not checked. Students need to know how to weed out the good information from the bad.
Nathan, I have to agree with you. When I was observing in a 3rd grade class a couple of years ago the teachers were fond of showing vidoes when they needed some extra prep time. In a lot of cases the vidoes were older and not of good quality and did engage the students in the topic of the video so the students would be restless the whole time and couldn't produce any feedback on what they had just watched.
I was intrigued with the article about Living Books. You would still have the drawbacks that I discussed in another blog about some children not really getting into gaming however, this seems a good way to reinforce material and a way for the students to reflect on the material they are learning about. By creating and "living" in these worlds the students also have something to connect themselves to which will be easier for the students to recall the information.
I can not believe that in year 1991 the multimedia was used in the school. Because i still know that right now some of our school do not have any of these equipments ... But i agree with Jenny... I will move to California as well.. smile
Week 2
Using educational video in the classroom: theory, research and practice.
This article does an excellent job with explaning not only the multiple ways in which video can enhance the educational experience, but also how truly important using video/multimedia is in relation to the different types of learning styles individuals may possess, i.e.,- aptitude-based, personality-based, and sensory-based.
I found it quite interesting that this article's author notes that research has shown that "combining sound with either still or moving images resulted in more learning than simply adding motion to still
images." (CPB 2004) It's good to know that our 602 course projects are practicing what research has proven to be good and sound approaches to using/multimedia in the classroom.
Now I remember why I don't show video in the classroom. Many math videos that I have found were so outdated or flat out "cheezy" that I knew my students would never pay attention to them. High schoolers are fickle enough as it is. There have been a few clips that I have found such as "Ma and Pa" featuring some interesting division, but with my options being so slim video just doesn't seem to be an effective means for me. I've even tried United Streaming... wow were those some badly made videos. Not to knock the site because there are so many wonderful videos, math just isn't their strong suit.
I think this blog has dumped some of my comments... I remember making a comment on the original posting of week 2, but it is lost in the world where all the left socks go when you can't find them in the dryer. Anyone else had this trouble?
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