POV Technology in Education

AN HISTORICAL POV AUPOV09 Wollongong 19/6/09

not this history.......

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

HERE COMES EVERYBODY Clay Shirky

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)
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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 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/

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/

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…

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

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)
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LAST WORD
Don’t forget to give your students the opportunity to create POV videos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishgirl7/3577452931

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

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POV Technology in Education

by michaelc on Jun 17, 2009

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