This document discusses using multimedia such as YouTube and Learn 360 in the classroom to engage students. It describes how a traditional newspaper approach with stories focused on school engaged the student body, while an online newspaper called the Mountain View Mirror engaged a global audience by allowing students to be reporters on diverse topics. The Mirror had over 1.25 million visits and 2.7 million people alerted to articles. It discusses constructing professionalism and safety for students publishing online. Overall, the document promotes using media to create student engagement through authentic publishing to a global audience.
7. Mountain View Alternative
High School
• ~230 Students
• 117% Student Mobility Rate for 2014-2015
• Alternative Student Population
• Alternative School Structure (few activities)
9. Modern Online Journalism
Stories About Anything for a Global Audience
Student Body as Reporters
News Events
Sports
Poetry
Lit Review
10. Reach of Written Word
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1300
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FCPS Base School CentreView
11. Reach of Written Word
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105000
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Base School CentreView Mirror 15 Connection
12. Mountain View Mirror
• Largest high school newspaper
in the country for 2014-2015
school year. (source: SNOsites.com)
– < reporters
– < articles
– < audience
1.25 million visits
in last 12 months
18. Professional
article is linked
to Student’s
Article
Nina Rabin is Director of Border Research for the
Southwest Institute for Research on Women. She
also has a joint affiliation with the James E.
Rogers College of law, where she is Director of
the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program.
Her work focuses on the impact of immigration
and border policies on women’s rights. She
directs projects that provide direct legal services
to low-wage immigrant women workers and
women in immigration detention facilities. At the
same time, her projects undertake policy
research and advocacy that grow out of these
direct services.
19. Professional
article is linked
to Student’s
Article
Cybelle Fox received a B.A. in history and economics from UC
San Diego in 1997 and a Ph.D. in sociology and social policy
from Harvard University in 2007.
Her most recent book, Three Worlds of Relief (Princeton
University Press, 2012), compares the incorporation of blacks,
Mexicans, and European immigrants in the American welfare
system from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.
Her next book project focuses on the rise of citizenship and
legal status restrictions in American social welfare policy from
the New Deal to the present.
Her work has appeared in the American Behavioral Scientist,
American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Sociology of
Education, Political Science Quarterly, and Sociological
Methods and Research. She is also co-author of Rampage:
The Social Roots of School Shootings (Basic Books, 2004).
23. Open Safety
1) Keep your personal information secret.
2) Never meet anyone in real life you only met online.
3) Stop incoming communications from “outsiders.”
24. Open Safety - For Teachers
1) Editorial Approval By Teacher
– Porn, Profanity & Bullying
27. Defining a “Technology Project”
1) If you can do it on the back of a shovel with a lump of coal, it’s NOT a
technology project.
– Don’t seek to replace the typewriter in the publishing process.
2) Don’t let a piece of media be the end product.
32. 4 Things You Need
– Media Sources
– Free Media Editing Tools
– Free Media Publishing & Collaboration
Tools
– Free Media Productivity Tools
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33. Media Sources
• Learn360: Video, Stills, Audio
• YouTube, Vimeo, Subject-specific Video Sites:
– Don’t allow referral videos
• TeacherTube:
– Same as YouTube, but vetted
• iTunes, Google, Flickr, Other:
– Watch your copyright rights
• CreativeCommons.org:
– Choose license for non-commercial use.
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34. Free Media Editing Tools
• Windows MovieMaker:
• Edits Video (iMovie if you’re a Mac)
• Windows PhotoStory:
• Edits Photos into a Movie (iMovie if you’re a Mac)
• Audacity:
• Edits Audio like a Cassette Tape Recorder
• PhotoEditor:
• There are a number of online options, check with
your SBTS. (Pixie has a good photo editor.)
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35. Free Media Publishing &
Collaboration Tools
• Blogs: explanation & example 1 & example 2
• Wikis: explanation & example
• PhotoSharing: explanation & example
• Social Bookmarking: explanation &
example
• VoiceThread: explanation 35
36. 4) Productivity Tools
(just Google it)
• “25 Digital Things All Teachers Should
Know”
– Delicious (tagging)
– Wiki (tagging)
– PhotoSharing (tagging)
– Snagit
– RSS Feeds
– Wordpress
– Google.com (Google Docs, Google Reader,
Google Earth)
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37. “Flipped Classroom”
• Using media to provide direct instruction
outside and prior to class.
– Then in class activities can be done.
• Using Teacher-Made Videos on Youtube for
Direct Instruction
– http://educationstudygroup.com/flippedclassroom/
– http://youtu.be/Dh_4wJWoHNQ
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38. Make Pictures “Tell”
• Don’t show what your telling
– Talk about what you are showing
• Use Visual Metaphors: Compare 2 Things
• One Prior Knowledge & One New
• One Visual, One Language
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45. Rules of the Road:
Managing the Shift in Classroom Power
1) What Shift in Power?
2) Networking Yourself
3) Differentiating in a New World
4) Constructivist - the Tom Sawyer Approach to Classroom Materials
5) Students Learn In Groups
6) Online Safety - 3 Things To Remember
51. 1st Graders use video editing software as a group sort.
They narrate the video together.
Editor's Notes
We are currently in a technology revolution in education. But it’s not what you think. It’s not the technology itself. The real revolution is the fact that students have access to technologies outside of school.
Here's the problem. A study of students conducted last year found a majority of forth and fifth graders spend 3 to 6 hours a day on social media unsupervised at home. They play with Myspace, Facebook and all the "sharp scissors" collaborative technology out there. Heck even in 3rd grade there are early adopters in each class using MySpace and collaborating with folks they don't know in their gaming sites. Webkins starts them off at an early age. Yes, that's right, Webkins targets kids with stuffed animals and with each animal they get a login for a social networking site.
Open Education, as it is currently defined, is the use of free and collaborative technologies in education.
Fraught with issues about safety, stability which are brought about by misunderstanding and fear, practitioners and proponents of Open Education have a rough row to hoe.
Blogs, wikis, free media production software, sites allowing web pages to be built with little or no effort are making things easier to do.
In the K-5 environment, collaboration must be managed.
The authentic publishing environment can be provided, but without incoming communication.
Turn off your computer or monitor if you see something that bothers you.
Porn Shui - Diablo Cody, screen writer for Little Miss sunshine
In the K-5 environment, collaboration must be managed.
The authentic publishing environment can be provided, but without incoming communication.
The linear “secret” writing process must be replaced with a non-linear content development process which includes world-wide publishing, or else our lessons will not be relevant to students.
We are currently in a technology revolution in education. But it’s not what you think. It’s not the technology itself. The real revolution is the fact that students have access to technologies outside of school.
Here's the problem. A study of students conducted last year found a majority of forth and fifth graders spend 3 to 6 hours a day on social media unsupervised at home. They play with Myspace, Facebook and all the "sharp scissors" collaborative technology out there. Heck even in 3rd grade there are early adopters in each class using MySpace and collaborating with folks they don't know in their gaming sites. Webkins starts them off at an early age. Yes, that's right, Webkins targets kids with stuffed animals and with each animal they get a login for a social networking site.
Open Education, as it is currently defined, is the use of free and collaborative technologies in education.
Fraught with issues about safety, stability which are brought about by misunderstanding and fear, practitioners and proponents of Open Education have a rough row to hoe.
Blogs, wikis, free media production software, sites allowing web pages to be built with little or no effort are making things easier to do.
First there was the printing press.
Telegraph and telephone for conversations
Recordings and Movies for store-and-forward
Radio and Television Broadcast one-to-many of the same message.
Technologies that were good at creating groups were not good at creating conversations, and the technologies for having conversations were not good at creating groups.
Internet has native support for Groups and Individual Conversations.
One-to-One, One-To-Many, only the internet is Many-to-Many.
Media is less just a source of information, as it is a way of organization a site of coordination, because groups can gather around a piece of media and talk about it.
Consumers are producers, not just the audience.