Help

I'm not sure if you still have the email but one was sent about a free Mac version of the software and open source for those with machines other than PCs for the Assignment #5. If you know the site please reply.

Thanks,
Tom

Creative Commons

From the website "Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

http://creativecommons.org/

chat schedule

I feel so disorganized and overwhelmed this quarter. I have everything printed and in binders but I still have a hard time keeping everything organized. Does anyone know when the next chat will be? I dont know if it was posted somewhere or not. I have looked and cant find it. I wanted to write it in my agenda so I dont forget. Thanks

Multimedia Projectors Article

The multimedia projector has changed the way material is presented in the classroom. Everyone can now see presentations or video from the Internet without crowding around a screen. The projector also works far better than a TV (at least the ones available at my school) in terms of everyone being able to see. Colorful presentations are much more interesting to today's youth than the old chalk and chalkboard approach. It keeps them more engaged and more attentive which usually leads to increased rentention of the material.

I found it very interesting that this article was written in June 2002 and that 22% of educators and AV specialists predicted that multimedia projectors would be in every classroom within 5 years. It is past five years later and most rooms at my school do not have a multimedia projector, including my own.

I love how the company CDWG provides same day shipping on all hardware, software and peripherals (even custom orders). If I could only get all of my shipments that quickly!

Assignment 4

I know this is a little late for assignment for but maybe someone is still working on it. Fair use is used a lot in education to allow teachers to show or make copies of certain works to share with their classes. When reading through copyright information for this assignment I read that this only applies to a student at a degree-granting institution. At high school this would be the diploma. So fair use does not apply to administrators or other teachers presenting at a professional development or at a board meeting since they are employees and not students. I never realized there was any difference, since in my mind I considered professional development to be an educational setting. I assumed that this would also be covered under fair use.

Assignment 4

A story that happened to me. When I was in Los Angeles this summer doing a computer camp on the UCLA Campus, as we were leaving the lab, a lady with a cameraman came running towards us. She asked the students if they would like to be in a quick movie. The students were like yes, yes!!! I said no - this is a camp and we are going to dinner. She said that it wouldn’t take long and they wouldn’t shoot the students’ heads and that if they would write down their name and address, they would mail home the release form. I said to them that if you are shooting the film now, that doesn’t make any sense. At this point I was getting a little upset and called another staff member. The lady told me it was only for a learning project, and I told her that I was in charge of this group of camp students and the parents didn't sign up for their children to be in any type of movie or film. By the way, at this camp we had a lot of high profile children because of their parent’s fame. As we were waiting for the other staff member to come, this lady totally ignored me and started telling the students what to do and said to the cameraman to "try not to" get the students’ faces. So then I really had to put my foot down and say again that we were not doing this and that she needed to leave us alone. She then took the low road and as she left told my students that she was just trying to make a movie and have a little fun and that I was being a "party pooper". I didn't say anything back because it wasn't worth it.

A great resource you might like

I found a good resource from the Web, which provides many video production examples and ideas and even how to produce videos. It also provides some information about hardware and softare. I hope it helps.
http://www.misd.k12.mi.us/technology/dig-video.html

Wei