video editing
create a blog post describing:
- Some of the videos you found on YouTube and Google video.
- What were your thoughts on the Did You Know videos?
- Do you see value in remixing or remaking content on the web?
- What concerns do you have as an educator with YouTube and similar sites?
- What would you tell your students’ parents if they voiced a concern about YouTube and similar sites?
- Do you see value in TeacherTube?
- What would you post on TeacherTube to integrate into your classroom?
- What projects would you have your student create and post on TeacherTube?
- What would you tell your students’ parents if they voiced a concern about TeacherTube vs. YouTube etc…?
- Tag this post appropriately and make certain web2.0inpusd is one of the tags.
NOTE: I do recognize many of the tools experienced in this class are not currently available, (they are blocked), for our students to use. When you respond to any question concerning how you would use a particular tool with the students in your class, you must answer the question from the point of view the tool is available in your classroom. Think of the answer as a persuasive argument that has the potential to create a change in our practice.
Submit the address of your blog post as part of this assignment by clicking the “Edit my submission” button below.
Total Points = 25
Some of the videos you found on YouTube and Google video.
I have used youtube quite a bit. It is amazing how much you can find. When I have a computer question (like recently, how to network with Vista) I can usually find a short video on the topic! I recently tried a new GPS system and found several good videos on youtube that were very helpful (sadly, some were in Chinese so were of limited help to me!)
The problem with youtube is that anyone can put most anything on it and a large amount of what is there is non-sense, a waste of time or worse. The only advantage to Google video was that it wasn’t (not sure now) blocked in the district! Teachertube is good but has much more limited resources. You have a higher likelyhood of finding something educational but even there, anyone can put anything up on it.
- Do you see value in TeacherTube?
- What would you post on TeacherTube to integrate into your classroom?
- What projects would you have your student create and post on TeacherTube?
One day I went to TEACHERTUBE and found a porn video . . . yep. I reported it (easy to click a link) and within seconds it was gone. I suspect someone thought that would be funny. I think it shows that you can’t gurantee that students can’t find something inapproprate using ANY resource on the inter net that is Web2.0 – because, by definition, Web 2.0 means people share information with others. The appropriate way to deal with it is what i did, you report it and it’s gone.
What were your thoughts on the Did You Know videos?
I have used the “did you know” videos in several classes and presentations. There are several versions and some of them are getting a little out of date – but they are very good for starting conversation about what our students will need to know and how we have a tendency to “teach them to live in our past” instead of their future.
Do you see value in remixing or remaking content on the web?
In terms of remixing – that stuff is great – but again, very time consuming for most teachers. I use my own video editing program (ulead) and it took a long time to get comfortable with it. Using another one – I’m not sure I want to invest the time. However, these new ones do offer some things that others do not – the JipJab sort of thing – Fuzzywich and Animoto look like the best to me but I’d really need to include that sort of animation to get into it. In terms of editing and film production sometimes less is more; I can see students making video with all sorts of animation and such that actually takes away from the story. It is easy to do with these sorts of things. The short demo video shown are a good example – they do show a bunch of things you can do to your video but they also are difficult for me to watch as they bounce around too much (but maybe that’s my generation – maybe to kids today they want/need that?)
- What concerns do you have as an educator with YouTube and similar sites?
- What would you tell your students’ parents if they voiced a concern about YouTube and similar sites?
What would I say to parent’s concerned about unfiltered YouTube in high school? I would agree with them – it shouldn’t be there. There are too many things on it that are NOT educational and I think there are OTHER web2.0 resources that are better. I’d rather work with what can be defended than to try and defend some things like YouTube. Notice, YouTube also has “adult” content – to get to it all you have to do is click a button that says you are 18!
The sad thing is that there are some very good things on YouTube that a teacher could use – I see lots of authentic history footage that would be great to use. Now you would have to download it at home, play it at school – which is probably a violation of our policy – so there you are. I would prefer saying that a teacher can use YouTube as they wish and show what is approprate, but that the site will be blocked from school district. Teacher’s would also then be responsible for any use of any such video. I doubt that there is any copyright on 60 year old WW2 video, for example.
- What projects would you have your student create and post on TeacherTube?
My students do projects all the time that they, or I, video or they create a project already as a video. The assignments are using active learning, acting out history etc.
- What would you tell your students’ parents if they voiced a concern about TeacherTube vs. YouTube etc…?
- Tag this post appropriately and make certain web2.0inpusd is one of the tags.
I think that TeacherTube is defensible but that YouTube would not be, in school – especially elementary school! Even in high school there are things that might be considered even criminal to show to minors! Teachertube is a reasonable compromise – it can’t guarantee no inappropriate content but it does a good job preventing it.
My students could put anything approprate up on Teachertube if they wanted to. I am wondering if we wouldn’t need a release signed however – for anyone shown in the video. I wouldn’t let it be shown without that.
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By the way have you seen -
internet archive/way back machine
and
AV geeks
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