Tutorial on Using Furl, A Social Tagging Site (SCREENCAST)
Description
A six minute screencast showing how to use the social bookmarking tool called, "Furl". It is similiar to Technorati and Delicious.
Production Notes :
A screencast can be viewed as video, a multimedia learning object or both - For this reason, I have added this screencast to the video section of my portfolio whereas other screencasts are found in the Multimedia/software section.
When I was working with a global team of developers for the Triple A Lecture Intervention project, I needed a way to keep the group up to date about the resources I was finding on the internet that would help us. I decided to use FURL and created this screencast to help the team learn how to use FURL for our project work.
This learning object was originally linked off the Triple A project portal - I have copied it to a directory within my portfolio.
This video showcases the plasticine talents of Junior/Intermediate Bachelor of Ed. Pre-Service Teachers at Nipissing University. I entered it into the "We Practice What We Preach" January 2006 Art Show at the WhiteWater Art Gallery in North Bay, Ontario.
Production Notes:
In order to do supply teaching in the North Bay school system, I discovered I had to complete a Bachelor of Education so after 10 years of teaching in the College System and with a Masters of Education Technology I went back to full-time school. There were many bright spots throughout the year like the time, I looked around the room in our art class and realized there were over 50 "Eddy's" (nickname for Education students) happily plying and moulding plasticine to a myriad of shapes and figures.
In the end, when I surveyed the week's samples which were accumulating on the counter, I was mesmerized by the colours and characters before me. Another one of those, "This has gotta be caught on camera!" moments. I even blogged about the moment here: http://newmediaworkshops.com/telblog/?p=70 . I visited http://ccmixter.org/ and there I found several possible tunes with Refluxos by TRX.exp (http://ccmixter.org/media/files/trz/3142) winning out.
A video in celebration of adapting to many things: change, boxes, moving and not moving. This was a video that "had to be done". I could not resist!
Production Notes:
All Dubai Men's college Faculty came back from the summer break in Aug. 2003 expecting to move to our new campus - however, a delay was almost immediately announced which then turned into a year postponement.
What I found funny and a bit of a relief was that everyone just took things in stride - they started either living out of the boxes we had packed before the break or unpacking their worldly goods bit by bit - no complaints. In typical DMC fashion, we were Flexible, Adaptable and Tolerant....FAT!
Our idea was to provide leadership in an issue
that teachers may come up against due to budget cut-backs and administrative
policies.
Production Notes:
We chose the topic
of "small class sizes" because many of us have taught in
large classes and now we are experiencing the luxury of smaller classes.
We thought it would be interesting to not only see what the research
has to say about small class sizes but also attempt to make a case
for keeping class sizes small.
No one in our group
had done any work with interviewing people so we decided to use this
technique extensively to aid in telling 'the story'. Also, our instructor
mentioned that we hadn't seen much acting in our videos so far so
we thought we'd have the narrator "act" like a documentary
host. Working with Carolyn and Wendy was stress-free and easy. I liked
the energy Wendy brought to directing me through the various narrative
pieces. Her camera work and creative flair on the beginning and end
helped to make this a good product. Carolyn worked steadily on providing
a cohesiveness to the numerous interview sound-bytes we had - that
was probably the toughest job as we had over 30 minutes of interviews
to fit into 6 minutes of video.
When we presented the video to all years of the
Michigan State University Overseas Graduate Studies Masters program,
the audience immediate launched into a discussion about the research
we had provided, bypassing critiquing the video entirely - we felt
we had definitely accomplished the task - the media was transparent
to the issues.
Our first group video in our final summer at
the MSU Masters of Arts - Education Technology program.
Production Notes:
Our main idea for this
project was merely to SURVIVE! We were a large group with many different
technologies to blend and a mix of experience. There are numerous
places in which the could be improved; we were working to honour time
constraints and purpose. We wanted something we could each use. We
wanted experience using the programs and cameras.
We sat together and made a plan, and wrote a
video script. While one person worked on the audio the other members
captured video and still shots for their section. PAL and NTSE cameras
were used with iMac and pcs computers and we used Premier and iMovie
programs to make the video. We hoped that all would mix well and they
did. We thought the process went well and that everybody was able
to do a small part and the small parts became greater than the sum
of the parts.
Glitches: tweaking is required between video and audio. …The
question is, do you do audio first or video first?
A video summarizing the journey that occured
in our second year in the MSU Masters of Educational Technology program.
Production Notes:
The second year of
the MSU Masters program can be overwhelming. There is much to read
and many theories to digest. When it came to sorting out the many
ideas, directions, overlap, connections between all the readings we
had completed, Molly, Tina and I decided a video might describe our
journey best.
The video starts out a little ominous, reflecting
how we felt about the barrage of information we reviewed over the
four weeks.
Education
Outside the Classroom - (Video for a Conference)
Description
This video was part of a presentation at TESOL
Egypt and Thailand about the advantages of getting students involved
in activities beyond the classroom.
Production Notes:
Wow, what an experience!
I am proud of this video and the fact that it represents a major team
effort of video neophytes. I worked with 6 other colleagues who had
"an idea" about creating a video to expound the Dubai Men's
College beliefs about the advantages of out-of-the-classroom activities
for our students. The team had never worked together nor had they
any experience in producing video (and I had only novice skills).
We planned and executed numerous video shoots in classrooms, out on
boats and numerous other activities. We received alot of positive
feedback about our efforts and the video is still used today.
This video was a "must-do"
as I had traipsed all over Egypt and Thailand, with camera equipment
in tow and often my friends had to put up with my camera in their
face. This was a gift back to them for putting up with me! It also
chronicles our trips to two very different cities to present our video,
"Education in Action".
I like the way this video came together and how
I was able to blend the conference 'work' with our explorations of
the new lands.
This is an experimental learning object I created
in my Masters course. We had to produce an "Ivideo" or videa
with a "Big Idea". The big idea in this one is how the interplay
of audio, still image and animation can be useful in teaching a visual
literacy concept.
Production Notes:
When I was teaching visual communication in Dubai,
my students needed to understand the elements and principles of design
as a starting point for creative image composition. I knew if they
came to understand how these elements and principles work in masterful
images, it would give them a headstart in creating their own well-composed
masterpieces. I also knew that by realizing there is an "order"
or "truth" in an artist's work, my students would come to
understand a whole new language - the language of images - and then,
hopefully, they would use that language as their own tool for communication.
How do I get my UAE students to see the interplay
of these elements in images? They definitely see it as a different
language - When I got thinking about this and discussing these issues
with John Bell, Director of the MSU Masters program, he likened my
dilemma to helping students understand the language of poetry....the
poetry of an image. I got thinking about this - although my students
wouldn't go for the poetry angle - I thought - poetry - rhythm - beat....yes,
my students can easily interpret the language of traditional Arabic
music with its strong beats and fancy rhythms. So I wondered if through
my Ivideo I could get my students to "see" the rhythm in
a still image. What do you think? 45 seconds / created in July. 2002
Interaction
- A Video Research Paper - MAET VIDEO, Yr3
Description
This video is an attempt at visually presenting,
one aspect of the Rule of Thirds action research.
Production Notes:
I had to present an
aspect of my action research project on the Rule of Thirds to my peers
in the Master Program. I wanted to find a way to make it enjoyable
yet also educational since research at its best can be boring to everyone
except the author!
I decided to add a
bit of humour into my script where I was also explaining the theory
behind my work. I also had the opportunity to 'play out' my secret
desire of being a 'play-by-play' sports broadcaster.
The final product is
not complete - there is a black hole in the middle which one day I
would like fill. Some day, I will also re-do the audio because listening
to it now, out of the context of the summer Master's program with
my friends, the audio is quite "over the top".
The video on the left shows a morphing example
while the right video is a stop-action animation.
Production Notes:
This
is a morph of my brother from a baby to his wedding. The hardest
part of this type of morphing is arranging the heads so that they
are approximately the same size. The eyes of each image must be
in approximately the same place as well.
1 minute / created
in 1998
I
had heard that many gif animation developers get requests to create
animated signatures. I decided to try one. To produce this animation,
I used Director, Corel Draw, Photopaint, and Goldwave (a Canadian
product) for audio editing.
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