The document discusses the evolution of media in education and the significance of user-generated content, emphasizing the shift towards participatory media tools such as blogs, podcasts, and social networking. It highlights the advantages of first-person view videos for practical skills training and the necessity for educational institutions to adapt to students' private technologies. Moreover, it notes that multimedia learning materials improve student engagement and completion rates.

1. AN HISTORICAL POV AUPOV09 Wollongong 19/6/09

2. not this history.......

3. FILM

4. PHOTOS

5. VIDEOS

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

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

8. 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

9. HERE COMES EVERYBODY Clay Shirky

10. POV

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

12. Andrew Keen

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY

14. THE CROWD: Collective wisdom? Stupidity of the masses?

15. 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 .

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

17. 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/

18. 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/

19. 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

20. What is the IMPACT of all this? Image courtesy of Mike Seyfang http://flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/2506591015 /

21. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

22. Awareness or a Set of Skills? New Practices predicated upon an awareness that things have changed…

23. POV

24. WHOSE POINT OF VIEW? First person view

25. 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)

26. End User Innovation

27. End User Innovation

28. Where do you put POV Videos? Local storage (pc, local server) LMS (eg Moodle) Internet at large (YouTube, Blip TV, etc) Customised solution

29. POV Subject Matter Practical hand-based skills (trades) Route tours (walking, bicycle, motorbike, car) Event coverage (Kurratha Open Day, exhibitions) Reflection Language Learning

30. CONTEXTS Instructional aides (teaching) Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) Journal Assessment (distance students, RPL) ???????

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

32. QUESTIONS? Michael Coghlan e: [email_address] w: http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ http://protopage.com/michaelc

33. Thanks to the following Flickr users for use of their Creative Commons images jb_projects sue_h pineapple_bun jemsweb cv47al leighblackall