Web Casting Final Fd –

Fran Darling, Marquette Area Public Schools –GIS & BMS 2006 -08

http://teachers.mapsnet.org/WebcastingforUDLMACUL2008/

Are your students frustrated – testing, reading, assignments!!!

This is nothing new, it’s been an issue for hundreds of years….

A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. …essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcasting

Students or teachers use or create audio and/or video posted to the web for learning support and enhancement.

Multiple representations of the same content in alternate formats

All ISTE and State Technology Standards are met: Standard 1 Basic Operations and Concepts; Standard 2 Social Ethical, and Human Issues; Standard 3 Technology Productivity Tools; Standard 4 Technology Communication Tools; Standard 5 Technology Research Tools; Standard 6 Technology Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Tools

  These activities meet the general K-12 ELA standards of

Meaning and Communication (Standards 1 – 4), Voice (Content Standard 6) , Skills and Processes (Content Standard 7), Depth of Understanding (Content Standard 9), and Critical Standards (Content Standard 12)

AND MDOE Universal Education policy

Studies of Visual Perception give some insight into how the brain sorts and recognizes information….

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/ig.html

Brain regions are stimulated using and creating in other modalities which use higher order thinking skills◦ -- Article by Doug Johnson for Education World:

Are 21st Century Skills Right Brain Skills?

UDL -Three Distributed Systems:

2. Strategic – The HOW of Learning

1. Recognition – The WHAT of Learning

3. Affective – The WHY of Learning

Provides multiple means of instructional content…Universal Design…

Universal Access – students can interact with content -- multiple means of engagement

Provides multiple means of assessment -show knowledge in many formats

Free Video Options: Instruct & Engage &Learn -research

◦Next Vista for Learning http://www.nextvista.org/

◦Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu◦Learn Out Loud

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video ◦iTunes Education -

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html

◦American Memory LOC - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Education & topic keywords: “Michigan History”◦ You Tube www.youtube.com & Teacher Tube

www.teachertube.org Zamzar - Convert to download www.Zamzar.com

Medieval Helpdesk◦ Import into Movie Maker and Narrate text

Short clip segments within videos

Embed and create new materials – in PowerPoint & Movie Maker/iMovie

Tsunami – video Tsunami – Movie Maker

www.unitedstreaming.com

Full courses with audio, video, primary source materials and graphics included in courses – High School & College

HippoCampusAnnenberg Media

A project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE).

The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

Go to: http://www.hippocampus.org/

"The Constitution: That Delicate Balance" http://www.learner.org/resources/series72.html is devoted to the nomination, selection, and succession of the president, including the role of political parties and the electoral college. 

Go to: http://www.learner.org/resources

Audio Options– Instruct & EngageRadio Willow Web – script templates &

online podcasts www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio Willow Web Script

iTunes Podcasts http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html

Learn Out Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

EPN Education Podcast Network - http://www.epnweb.org/

Music and more – public media with Creative Commons www.archive.org

American Memory LOC - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Bloglines on http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

Radio Willow Web Room 3 War News Radio Princeton Vocab Review Minute Princeton Vocab Review Minute Learn Out Loud -

biography of Leo Tolstoy’s boyhood Writer’s Almanac –

Learn Out Loud > Free Stuff > Podcasts◦ http://www.learnoutloud.com/contents/All-LearnOutLoud.com's-Podcasts/9/21

NPR – podcasts ◦ http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

Add to your iTunes/Bloglines or other reader or just download

Bloglines on http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

Voice Thread – online recording and image post

Public – free for 50 pages per VoiceThread, http://voicethread.com/share/57401/

Ed Voice Thread – for teachers, classrooms and schools

http://ed.voicethread.com/share/73189/

Radio Willow Web – How To Scripts…◦ ..\Handouts - How Tos & Online Resources\RadioWillowWeb.pdf

Classroom as recording studio – Diane Rich and Julie Myrmel MACUL session, recording schedule & group topics – Friday, 8:30 – 9:30

http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/Podcasting

Parent permission to post students’ work and guidelines for posting on the web

Storyboards, 3x5 note cards –highlighted, Summarize content, vocabulary/spelling words, team script template

Video/record around the school – sound & lighting

Train student aides, “on-the-job” or GIS afterschool club

Eric Hammerstrom – MACUL grant winner - Presentation earlier todayOnline at: http://mqtube.org/

Teachers plan projects – storyboards, organizers, rubrics

Coordination with tech, students & parents

Student helpers

All students who want to can participate◦ In group/team◦ Record during recess/special◦ Opt not to create video or audio

Marble Maze Marble Maze 06

GIS audio study of Motion and Forces

Five Themes of Geography

http://teachers.mapsnet.org/gisstudents

Marble Maze individual podcasts Recorder for Free – simple mp3 voice

recorder http://www.download.com/3001-2168_4-10709701.html?idl=n

Middle School News GIS Mother’s Day Students work with a script

◦ GIS Teacher provides Mother’s Day script◦ BMS Students write news articles to record

Mother’s Day poems & messages◦ Download Audacity & LAME

◦ Import a background mp3 (you can’t post podcasts with commercial music) -- www.Archive.org -creative commons licensing (Something Else by James Curran)

◦ Modify music track to decrease volume for student recording voice-over

◦ Save the template

◦ Students open the template and record onto it – Student Aide helped here

◦ Save file by Exporting as MP3

◦ Finished Sample – Mother’s Day Teacher & student aide burned finished files to CD –

couldn’t post to web with commercial music Can also be loaded on an MP3 player Saved on computer to play

Small video/still cameras – DXG (under $100)◦ 1 G Memory Card – under $20

Laptop or computer – Can be on a cart Audacity audio editor & LAME encoder &

Audio Recorder - Free Head sets with microphone ($12 – $30) Video Editing Software– Movie Maker or

Imovie/ILife Web storage to post files – district storage Digital Voice Recorders - $100 - $150 Copyright-free music – GarageBand or

www.archive.org

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