Edgalaxy – Where Education and Tech Meet has a great post on alternatives to using YouTube in school.
“Unfortunately after a couple of years of Youtube access at school it appears it has finally left us. It is clearly the best video sharing site on the web but if you can’t access it it here is not a great deal you can do about it. So I have trawled the web to try and find the best video content on the web that most schools should be able to access.
Vimeo - Is really the only contender to Youtube’s crown. Good quality, fast and loads of content. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the news and entertainment content of the major networks that youtube offers.
TVGalaxy – TV Galaxy is not so much a tube but it is probably the best connected sitefor all major television networks from the US, Canada, UK and Australia. It is packed with great documentaries news and regular television shows.
TeacherTube - It used to be great but now suffers from a sad amount of over advertising and neglect of it’s content. It needs some TLC but still has some worthwhile videos.
Archive.org – Massive amounts of documentaries, old TV shows and useful content. Unfortuanately you have to physically download it at this stage – no streaming.
Other than that a TV tuner card for a classroom PC will cost about $30 and is dead simple to use and of course you can aways beg and plead”
Hmmm……..I wonder about the NEW Apple TV thing.
Check out all the details at http://crabfuartworks.blogspot.com/2010/09/crabfu-5-iphone-microscope-mod.html
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I read in today’s Parade Sunday Magazine that actor, Tony Danza is teaching high school English in Philadelphia. Here is a news story from a TV station in Philly http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=d69514f1-c56d-4a83-8df8-0590b957070e
“After more than 30 years in entertainment as an actor, talk show host, Broadway star, cookbook author, pro boxer and song and dance man, Tony Danza faces his toughest audience to date – high school students. Long before the launch of Danza’s showbiz career, he hoped to be a teacher and even earned a degree in history to pursue that dream.”
Link to the show on A & E TV : http://www.aetv.com/teach-tony-danza/
About the SHOW: Long before his iconic acting career, which includes roles in “Taxi” and “Who’s The Boss,” Tony Danza received a degree in History Education. During the 2009-2010 school year, he took on his most challenging and rewarding role yet as he stepped into the classroom as a full-time teacher at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School. “Teach Tony Danza” follows the first year-teacher as he instructs a 10th-grade English class with 26 students.
The show airs beginning October 1 at 8:00 central time on A & E TV.
OK, I am curious. Guess I will be watching to see how it goes. I applaud him, but, I really think we need to put congressmen and senators in this position and then have conversations about education and teaching. Bet it would be a very different conversation if they had to spend a week or two doing what teachers do every day. By the way, they have to live on what teachers make during that time too!! I wonder if Tony did?
Sure wish A&E TV had an iPad App like ABC does!!
From the blog The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness has a great post on using Flip cameras, and he has a nice comprehensive list by content area of ideas. Can you add ideas to this list?
Social Studies
1.) Have students portray a President and recreate a famous speech
2.) Act out a time period in history
3.) Use for Mock Trial to record “evidence” at a scene of a crime
4.) Create advertisements for products when teaching Economics
5.) Create advertisement for inventions in history
6.) Interview family members
7.) Create Propaganda Techniques
8.) Film “On The Scene” news clips as if a news reporter from an event in history
9.) Create a movie trailer about an event in history, or even a biography of a person from history
10.)Create a music video for any of the subject matter
Science
1.) Record experiments and then include in a Glog instead of doing the standard lab write up
2.) Create video advertisements for all the Elements on the Periodic table and how they are used in real life
3.) Create a Music video…like these
4.) Interview people in different science careers and bring in for career day activities
5.) Video Science in action – life cycle, hydro-logic cycle, chemical reactions, etc
6.) Create How-To videos explaining the steps in scientific and physic processes
Mathematics
1.) Give to students to take home. Have the work out and explain a math problem. Then bring in to school and let the student share with the class
2.) Take a camera out and measure different angles in the school/community for a geometry lesson
3.) Create a “Math in my Life” video journal. Have students record when they use math in their daily lives and share at the end of the semester.
4.) Create How to videos over mathematics and formulas
5.) Have students record your explanations of math problems in your classroom and then make them available on the web or put them on their flash-drive for them to use for homework.
English
1.) Create a movie trailer for a book they are reading in the class
2.) Create a monologue for a poem from class. Catch the emotion of a poem.
3.) Allow students to record a speech instead of giving the speech in front of the class if nerves keep them from full potential
4.) Record students doing the My Three Words Campaign
5.) Recreate scenes from a play or short story
6.) Record a skit of dialogue from a section of a book.
Foreign Language
1.) Have students create common words translation videos
2.) Have students record a certain artifact and then translate it on video
3.) Have students go around school/town and translate popular spots, places, etc into the foreign language
ALL SUBJECTS
1.) Create a review video for students to use for exams and show on school news.
2.) Take on Field Trips and share with students via school news
3.) Record classroom discussions
4.) Record your lecture and make available as podcast, for viewing on your website, or on a flash-drive
5.) Record a daily vocabulary word and act out definition.
Steve Jobs announced an update to the Apple TV. The new stuff for Apple TV includes:
- new matte black color
- 1/4 of the size
- added HDMI and digital audio outputs
- NO internal storage—only rentals from the iTunes Store
- day-of-release HD movies rent for $4.99; HD TV shows rent for $.99
- $99 price tag
- includes the remote
Of course, I am not sure what the “old stuff” was on the original Apple TV since I didn’t have one. Jobs said that people “don’t want to manage storage… they just want to watch movies and TV shows.” And that whatever hardware we have has to be “silent, cool and small.” I more or less agree! I hate to admit it, I am into the “cool factor.”
I currently pay for some premium channels with my cable subscription, and only watch them now & then. If I really think about it, likely a waste of my money, I am wondering if it would be cheaper to just have basic cable and an Apple TV. It is important to note that my 82 year old parents live with me, so, I do need basic cable for Mom & Dad. Maybe I could cut my cable bill in half with just having basic cable, buy Apple TV for me in my room and do the pay as I go thing when I wnat to!! That is something to think about. I have training my folks to use their cell and just eliminated my land line! So we are moving forward. I even have my dad reading the USA Today on my iPad!
You can subscribe to Netflix streaming for $8.99 a month on the new Apple TV, and stream from MobileMe, YouTube and Flickr. That all sounds good, but Flickr? That would mean I should take better advantage of my Pro-Flickr account. MobileMe, no doubt I do not take full advantage of my $99 a year price tag (which is pretty steep) and I looked into streaming Netflix a while back, and there was not much there I cared about watching, has it really improved that much?
AirPlay, replaces AirTunes, which I have also never used. AirPlay allows streaming from a device to Apple TV—for example, from your iPad to your new Apple TV. Jobs demonstrated this by streaming a movie from his iPad to an Apple TV using Wi-Fi. Hmm, this sounds interesting, still not sure it is something I would really take much of advantage of yet. Boy I am full of “yets.” Maybe an Apple TV really is in my future.
When Apple TV is available in October, ABC and Fox will offer their HD shows for rental at the 99 cents. RENTAL, what the heck? Altough I would just pay for what I watch. Can I subscribe to a series? Will it be cheaper if you buy the season rather than 99 cents per show? 99 cents each could get pretty expensive for a full season of your favorite show!! That scares me just a bit. Although, I do love the no commercial thing!!
And what about all the other networks, I like ABC & Fox, but come on, I want all of them? I don’t think pre-ordering is in the cards for me, although it is only $99.00. But it seems that I have to pay for everything I watch. I just can’t wrap my brain around it. Kinda think it might equal out to lots more money than cable in the long run, might just be me and my poor math skills.
It doesn’t appear as though I could eliminate cable completely just yet, and when I do want to watch TV, I just want to watch TV, not have to plan for it!! So, the jury is still out on Apple TV for me at least. I think maybe I must be living in a different world when it comes to TV entertainment than Steve Jobs! Maybe there is more FREE stuff out there that I can stream and I just don’t know about it.
Clearly, I better do more research before I make up my mind. How about you, what are your feeling about AppleTV?, Where do you stand? Please comment!
More Information
http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html
Purchase Apple TV: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/apple_tv
Apple September 2010 Music Event-The All New Apple TV Media Streamer
A few Tips & Tricks for Student filming in the Classroom
http://langwitches.org/blog/2010/09/01/a-few-tips-tricks-for-student-filming-in-the-classroom/
With the wonderful small, but high quality, Flip Video cameras (and similar
brands), it has become affordable (around US$ 150) to bring video production
into the classroom.
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A site that merges many sites together. Creaza offers a mind-mapping tool, cartoon creation, movie editor, and audio editor.
- Video about the Mind-mapping software.
- Video about the Cartoon software
- Demo/Video of the Video Editor (Does take some time to load)
- Video about the Audio Editor
Of course, like everywhere, you have to register. Creaza seems to have many useful tools all in one place. Use audio tracks you make in the audio editor in the video editor and the video editor offers a ton of options. I would absolutely watch the videos first.
Wesley Fryer has am amazing thought provoking post about Digital Citizenship on his blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity. It is worth reading!!
The actions of Florida 11 year old “Jessi Slaughter” (Jessica Leonhardt) on YouTube as well as her father provide a case study on digital citizenship both sad and instructive to witness. The following seven minute segment from Good Morning America back in July 2010 provides a partial summary of the incident and situation.
The YouTube version above of this clip may be taken down at some point. The following ABC News website posts from July 22nd provide insights into the escalating series of events which led to this extreme and distressing situation:
Viral Cyberbullying: Who’s to Blame for Jessi Slaughter’s Online Infamy
‘Jessi Slaughter’ Says Death Threats Won’t Stop Her From Posting Videos on the Internet
Jessi Slaughter’s Cyber Bullying Nightmare
Jessi Slaughter Breaks Down, Father Steps In
To read the full story, CLICK HERE
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Rick Rees, and Apple Professional Development trainer recently conducted a workshop in Tupelo. The teachers that he worked with were introduced to iLife & iWork and would you believe they started school this week, first week of August. Braden Bishop, one of the workshop participants contacted Rick to share his iMovie that he made to introduce himself to his students.
This is the scenario:
Braden connected some big desktop speakers with a subwoofer to his computer and had everything set to go. After his new high school students came in to his Economics class on the first day of school, he shut the door, didn’t say a word, turned out the lights, and turned the video on. He said “they were kinda floored.” and that “three of my six periods stood up and clapped…and DIDN’T EVEN know me!”
Thanks Rick for sharing Braden’s project, it is simply amazing. What a creative way to use iMovie too! Check out Braden’s work. When you watch it you’ll know why his students were excited. What a great way to start the year. Although, starting school the first of August, oh my!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHNhcdyMtc
Do we know what we are doing? Does society know what it wants? Are we still working towards reform… Ask yourself…
Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for
several hours each day is the best way for them to be “educated”?
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
– George Evans
Why do we think every 6 year old is going to be at the same place in math, english and all the other subjects so we clump them together.
We already live in a time of disconnect, where the classroom has stopped reflecting the world outside its walls. The classroom is born of an industrial mode of thinking.
Greatest hurdle in ed reform is that society doesn’t have a clear vision of what school is for
“If you put a doctor of 100 years ago in today’s operating room, she would be lost, yet if you placed a teacher of 100 years ago into one of today’s classrooms she wouldn’t skip a beat. ”
Molebash 1999
Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality.”
Cisco Systems
“If we don’t focus on the experience dimension of learning, we run the risk of mistaking the publishing of information for learning and training”
Elliott Masie
In education the Use it or lose it rule may mean If you don’t use tech for learning , you may lose relevance. An educator must be relevant.
Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are.
“Because the generation of students that I am teaching is an instant pudding, drive-through, microwave, download-it-from-the-Internet, media-driven generation, I know that I must be innovative to keep their interest and to inspire in them a creative curiosity.”
Doug Martin
Do I create lifelong learners.
Am I preparing students for my age or theirs?
Thanks to Alice Barr’s blog, View From My Window from Maine for this resource. I was reading an article on her blog and noticed a widget on the side. Follow my videos on VodPod, it is kinda of like a a BlogRoll for videos. Of course, I had to check it out. I think I will be adding this feature to my blog. Looks pretty slick.
What’s Vodpod?
We think people find the best videos on the web, not computers. So we’ve made it easy to build your own video channel to share with the world, and to tune in to channels made by other members who share your interests or tastes.
The Basics
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Build Your Channel
Get your very own video channel up and running in seconds, using any video from any video sharing site — YouTube, Hulu, CNN, and literally tens of thousands more.
- Tune In
Subscribe to other channels and get a video feed customized for you. We’ll help you find the channels you like with our categories, leaderboards and channel recommendations.
This morning Kevin Honeycutt Skyped me in my office. He was doing professional development in Arkansas and wanted to demo the power of Skype. Remember pen pals? Skye and a few other tools can do digitally what pen pals do and much MORE. Imagine connecting with other classrooms.
Skype seems to be thethe most popular tool. It’s easy to use and free. The only downside is that you and the person you want to talk with must both have Skype installed on your computers.
There are other options, and as with anything, all have advantages and dis advantages. The key is using the right tool for the task.
Present.io real time web presentation in just two clicks. very drop has a built in presentation mode. log in to the drop as the ‘admin’ (Using the administrator’s password) and you can instantly start a real-time web based media presentation to everyone else on your drop. No one needs to download anything, there is no registration or installations – it just works, 100% in your browser. So you can say, “meet me at http://drop.io/mypresentation, and let me walk you through the meeting materials” to as big a group as you want.
watch the video – to get a quick sense of how this all works, or please see below
by Bill Wolff’s Composing Spaces, assistant professor, department of writing arts, Rowan University
- Use the Flip Video Camera and get students to play with it right away
- Ensure that students have the ability to edit video outside of class and from home
- Teach students more advanced editing techniques over time
- Talk with students at length about best practices for working with video files, moving video files to and from USB drives, and backing up their work
- Provide multiple avenues for file conversion and anticipate some problems
- Require students to use only Creative Commons approved music
Bill has a a great deal of good information and resources. It is worth the read.
To read the full story and see all the resource, CLICK HERE
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From diditalroberto
Fun video showing all the great ways to use velcro and the iPad together. Who will make the teacher version of this video?
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
The last couple of days Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity has been doing reviews of online video editing software. The first two compared were Jaycut and YouTube. And today Stroome and Kaltura.
I knew about and had experimented just a bit with Jaycut and YouTube, but Stroome and Kaltura are new to me. From what I can read so far, Stroome looks like it might have some possibilities. I still love iMovie, but for online, in a pinch, or for Windows users, these FREE online services might just do the the trick.
Stroome: http://www.stroome.com/
Kaltura: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltura
YouTube: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/06/edit-video-in-cloud-with-youtube-video.html
Jaycut: http://jaycut.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOEfMiPndA&feature=player_embedded
K-2: Your Buzz & Woody: What toy is your absolute favorite? Write down 3 words (or sentences) that describe why you like it.
3-5: If You Were a Toy: Pretend that you get to be the voice for a Toy Story 3 toy. What toy would you be? Why would that toy be the perfect fit for your voice?
6-8: Toys Trashed?: When you outgrow your toys, what do you do with them? Do you think its best to keep them, give them to a younger family member or to charity, or to throw them away? Why?
9-12: The Gender of Play: Ken gets teased for being a girls’ toy. Do you think that children gravitating toward traditional toys for their gender is a natural tendency of children or a result of how little boys and girls are treated differently?
YouTube Block? Try this site
Thanks to TeacherHUb for this resource.
