TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH
WEB 2.0: A CRASH COURSE
PART 4
MULTIMEDIA SHARING (I):
VIDEOS AND DIGITAL IMAGES
Aziza Ellozy
CLT, Director
Associate Dean for Learning Technologies
Copyright A.R. Ellozy [April, 2008].
Faculty Workshop Series - Spring 2009
Workshop Objectives
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Discuss digital expression and visual
literacy
Place multimedia sharing in the context of
learning and teaching
Introduce you to Flickr and its potential use
in teaching and learning
Introduce you to YouTube and its potential
uses in teaching and learning
Promote the knowledge and skills needed
for 21st century teaching and learning
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php
On Visual Literacy and Multimedia
What Are Multimedia Sharing Sites
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Multimedia sharing sites facilitate the storage,
sharing, and sometimes creation of audio,
images/photos, and video.
Visual Media For Digital Expression
DIGITAL IMAGES
VIDEOS
For example, videos like these can initiate classroom discussion
about the effect of war on Iraq's country’s cultural heritage.
DIGITAL IMAGES
Flickr…
…best known source for visual imagery
Digital Images: what is
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A web 2.0 tool
A free digital photo sharing website
Used by any subscriber as a photo repository
Allows photos to be ‘tagged’ and to be
browsed with user-defined ‘tags’.
Has Web 2.0 social networking features
Has created an enormous network
On April 5, 2009, at 9: 08 pm the following message was found :
What can you do with
apart from…
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Viewing pictures
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Posting pictures?
Add Comments To Your Pictures
Use Hot Spot Annotations
Use Tags
Geotagging:
Trees In Egypt
Some Examples and THEN how
would YOU use it?
Using Flickr in the classroom
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Repository for student photos/project work…
Source of graphics for presentations/blogs/wikis
Use as prompt: start a discussion; have students comment
on picture; have students interpret picture or sequence of
pictures
Use hotspot tool to draw attention to aspects of pictures
Using Flickr in the classroom:
two examples
MATH
ART
What About Copyrights?
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Web 2.0 are copyrighted
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Guidelines for use digital works: in a flux
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Issue is continuously being reassessed
a popular alternative
US copyright law is too restrictive; harms free
exchange of ideas and creative expression
Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons
VIDEO SHARING
Digital Videos: what is
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A web 2.0 tool
A free digital video sharing website
Used by subscribers as a video repository.
Allows photos to be ‘tagged’ and to be
browsed with user-defined ‘tags’.
Has Web 2.0 social networking features
Has created an enormous network
What Can You Do With
Apart From…
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Viewing videos
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Posting videos?
What users do with
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A medium for self expression
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Making an argument or storytelling
Social Networking
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Viewing & SHARING opinions
Learning from each other
Collaborating
Forming communities of practice
Embedding videos in a blogs, wikis or a webpages
, Teaching and Learning
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Engagement
Active learning vs. passive
Project Collaboration
Teacher and student as content creator, user
(evaluator)
Visual Literacy
Multimedia narrative: communicating with
stories
, Teaching and Learning
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Many educational videos are available: "10
signs of intelligent life on
is a starter
“Viewing” assignments with questions and
comments
More on
and
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