I was chatting with a student in Grade 6 today about a movie he made. After 10001 photos, he and his brother produced a high quality entertaining stop-motion movie simply by using Movie Maker. When asked what he had done with it, he said “YouTube.”
It made me wonder how many other students are producing great stuff that we are not even aware of.
Any ideas for organizing students’ multimedia work somehow? Many students from IB down to Grade 6 have produced great work. Many have posted randomly to YouTube. There is great digital art, models, diagrams, etc. They are crying for an audience. Not sure what is the best solution. Should the school host the products? Should there be an independent site with grade or subject categories? Should we simply gather links to outsourced hosts?
DilworthM said
November 5 2007 @ 2:00 pm
This link was on Utecht’s blog and it looks like another potential way to upload videos without using youtube.
http://www.entertainmentscripts.com/social_features.php
D. Sturgeon said
November 6 2007 @ 9:27 pm
I have started this wiki site to show off some student work.
http://ismmstech.wetpaint.com
Darren Murphy said
November 11 2007 @ 11:13 am
Yes, our school should host exemplary examples of students work, students should also have the ability to add Podcasts to their own online learning spaces, such as the Portal hosted, by the ISM. The key is to give students an easy way to share what they have created with other students (and Parents and Teachers in a safe and secure way) and to allow their creations to develop in a kind of viral way of their own, this is the basis for the success and growth of the WEB 2.0 world. The same theory can be applied to giving students authentic tasks in the classroom, which will be both motivating, exciting and enhance student student learning at the same time.
Please check out Podcasting for Teachers for some helpful tips here.
http://podcastingforteachers.com/
Useful hosting links
http://www.ourmedia.org/
http://blip.tv/
http://spinxpress.com/
http://www.archive.org/index.php
val anderson said
December 10 2007 @ 9:37 pm
I would love to incorporate podcasting into the “going further” & “taking action” phases of our unit on sustainability. i went to the website you suggested, but quickly found myself impatient (my home internet is soooooo slow!) and overwhelmed. is anyone offering prof. or student lessons on how to create podcasts? do we have the recording technology? forgive my ignorance, but note my interest! any suggestions for getting started?
-val
Darren Sturgeon said
December 10 2007 @ 10:47 pm
Check out http://sturgeonsstuff.podbean.com and see what you think. Is that something like your thinking.
It would be nice to get podcats into our Sharepoint as well.
Stop by my presentation on January 7 during the PD day. I’ll try to see you before then. Would love to help!
Ståle said
December 11 2007 @ 12:28 pm
After attending Darren’s workshop on January 7th (at 12:30 in HS Computer lab 1082), you can also email myself or Darren M. (for ES teachers) to come along and plan/work with you and your class. So far I’ve worked on podcasting projects with HS English and Modern Language, and Middle School Social Studies and Language Arts are also doing podcasting next semester.
Typically we’d first do a quick session with just the teacher(s) to discuss intended learnings, timeline, etc. and just to get an understanding of the technicalities (in-depth technical details are not really required - unless you really, really WANT to understand everything). We’d then do a session with the kids in the lab and I/Darren would be happy to come along for subsequent sessions just to help troubleshoot if needed.
Great to see interest from ES as well! Podcasting is by no means too hard for the younger students. For example, at http://www.podkids.com.au/ you can find a podcast by Australian Year 4/5 students which you can even subscribe to in iTunes.