POV Technology in Education

AN HISTORICAL POV

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not this history.......

FILM

PHOTOS

VIDEOS

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1990

2008

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•User has total editorial control•No third party need be involved•DISINTERMEDIATION (the decline of the gatekeepers)

THE DIGITAL AGE

HERE COMES EVERYBODY

Clay Shirky

POV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1uObOcVxQ0

The Dangers of User Generated Content!

Andrew Keen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY

THE CROWD:

Collective wisdom?

Stupidity of the masses?

PERSONAL PUBLISHING/ PARTICIPATORY MEDIA TOOLS

• Blogs (written text)• Podcasts (audio)• Wikis (collaborative workspaces)==================================• Flickr (photo sharing)• Video repositories (YouTube, Google Video, BlipTV,

TeacherTube, etc)• Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Bebo,

Orkut, etc)

} Now often indistinguishable from each other as they all now house text and all available media.

“The Read/Write Web”(Tim Berners Lee)

Original photo by Hummanna.

Why does mediamatter?

• Adrian Miles (RMIT):“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.”

• Innate human desire/need to create• Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of

images, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc• develops Digital Literacy

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Why does mediamatter?

• A majority of students (74 – 85%) who had taken courses with multimedia learning materials found them easier, and spent less time completing the course. (Michael Sankey, USQ)

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WHO FINDS READING/WRITING DIFFICULT?

• English as Second or Other Language Learners (ESOL)

• Low level literacy• Those with little recent formal learning

experience• Those with poor keyboard skills• Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

What is the IMPACT of all this?

Image courtesy of Mike Seyfang http://flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/2506591015/

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Awareness or a Set of Skills?

• New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…

POV

WHOSE POINT OF VIEW?

First person view

FIRST PERSON VIEW - Advantages

• No other party involved• Unique line of sight to subject of video• Creator of video is unseen >• Encourages natural tone of delivery• Hands free >• Tailor made for demonstrating practical skills

(eg cleaning a paint brush, fixing a muffler, laying bricks, changing a faucet, etc)

End User Innovation

End User Innovation

Where do you put POV Videos?

• Local storage (pc, local server)• LMS (eg Moodle)• Internet at large (YouTube, Blip TV, etc)• Customised solution

POV Subject Matter

• Practical hand-based skills (trades)• Route tours (walking, bicycle, motorbike, car)• Event coverage (Kurratha Open Day,

exhibitions)• Reflection• Language Learning

CONTEXTS

• Instructional aides (teaching)• Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs)• Journal• Assessment (distance students, RPL)• ???????

LAST WORD

• Don’t forget to give your students the opportunity to create POV videos!

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QUESTIONS?

Michael Coghlane: [email protected]: http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/http://protopage.com/michaelc

Thanks to the following Flickr users for use of their Creative Commons images

• jb_projects• sue_h• pineapple_bun• jemsweb• cv47al• leighblackall