AN HISTORICAL POV AUPOV09 Wollongong 19/6/09

not this history.......

FILM

PHOTOS

VIDEOS

http:// www.flickr.com/photos/erasmus_t/2760442471 / 1990 2008

http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/khedara/445340228 / User has total editorial control No third party need be involved DISINTERMEDIATION (the decline of the gatekeepers) THE DIGITAL AGE

User has total editorial control

No third party need be involved

DISINTERMEDIATION (the decline of the gatekeepers)

HERE COMES EVERYBODY Clay Shirky

POV

The Dangers of User Generated Content! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1uObOcVxQ0

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 .

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)

“ The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna .

Why does media matter? 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 http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/

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

Why does media matter? 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) http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/

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)

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

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…

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)

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

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

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) ???????

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! http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishgirl7/3577452931

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

QUESTIONS? Michael Coghlan e: [email_address] w: 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

jb_projects

sue_h

pineapple_bun

jemsweb

cv47al

leighblackall