Hooray, I've finished my final assignment for Online and Education Training!!
I have uploaded the final assignment to a wiki in both .pdf and .doc formats.
Please feel free to check out the assignment (it is towards the bottom of the wiki) and comment back here.
The address for the wiki is:
http://andrewoetassignment2.wikispaces.com/
Good luck to everyone else who is studying and has an assignment to submit or an exam to sit!
Andrew
Monday, November 10, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
On-line Resources Assignment 1 Report
Please find below the link to the report regarding the on-line resources I have posted in numerous entries on this blog. The report is in both M/S Word and pdf formats to ensure readers are able to access one or the other. I have included a preamble to the showcased resources with a conclusion at the end. A full reference list for the citations in the report is also included. The report can be accessed @ http://andrewoetassign1report.wikispaces.com/
Andrew
Andrew
Friday, October 17, 2008
Australia's audiovisual heritage online~ The Australian Screen Online website
Australia's audiovisual heritage online~
The Australian Screen Online website was launched in July 2007, giving the general public access to all of Australia's cinematic historywith over 500 film and television programs represented on the site.
On the site you can view clips from Australian feature films,documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels,advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films producedover the last 100 years, with curators’ notes and other information about each title.
The site currently contains 1,471 clips from 563 film andtelevision titles, and is constantly being added to. Teachers and students are encouraged to use the website as a learning resource and to visit Australian Screen Online's education page foreducational content provided by The Le@rning Federation. Access the page @:
http://australianscreen.com.au/(access to the films, doco's, tv series, newsreels, ad's etc.)
http://australianscreen.com.au/education/(for the dedicated education section)
Andrew
The Australian Screen Online website was launched in July 2007, giving the general public access to all of Australia's cinematic historywith over 500 film and television programs represented on the site.On the site you can view clips from Australian feature films,documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels,advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films producedover the last 100 years, with curators’ notes and other information about each title.
The site currently contains 1,471 clips from 563 film andtelevision titles, and is constantly being added to. Teachers and students are encouraged to use the website as a learning resource and to visit Australian Screen Online's education page foreducational content provided by The Le@rning Federation. Access the page @:
http://australianscreen.com.au/(access to the films, doco's, tv series, newsreels, ad's etc.)
http://australianscreen.com.au/education/(for the dedicated education section)
Andrew
Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.
British photographer, educator and digital storyteller, Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as "short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart." The beauty of this form of digital expression, he maintains is that these stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world. Meadows goes on to describe digital stories as "multimedia sonnets from the people" in which "photographs discover the talkies, and the stories told assemble in the ether as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, a gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are."
Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/ ...this site from the University of Houston includes an overview, tips, tricks and much more for the use of digital storytelling in the classroom. There are many free software programs around nowadays to support digital storytelling. Some of these such as Windows Moviemaker and Photostory 3 would be familiar to educators. These can be used to make films/ videos, claymations and so on from the prep classroom to year 12.
Andrew
British photographer, educator and digital storyteller, Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as "short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart." The beauty of this form of digital expression, he maintains is that these stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world. Meadows goes on to describe digital stories as "multimedia sonnets from the people" in which "photographs discover the talkies, and the stories told assemble in the ether as pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, a gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are."
Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/ ...this site from the University of Houston includes an overview, tips, tricks and much more for the use of digital storytelling in the classroom. There are many free software programs around nowadays to support digital storytelling. Some of these such as Windows Moviemaker and Photostory 3 would be familiar to educators. These can be used to make films/ videos, claymations and so on from the prep classroom to year 12.
Andrew
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Scibd
Scibd
http://www.scribd.com/...
Scribd is a document sharing website. It currently houses over 350,000 documents. Scribd is a very useful Web 2.0 online application which allows you to upload a file in common formats (i.e. PPT, DOC, TXT, XLS, etc.) and an Adobe Flash Paper version is created in a player. You can easily embed the player and the content on your own Web page or blog, you can have the item viewed and even read-aloud right from Scribd's site, or you can download the uploaded file in PDF, TXT, and even the read-aloud file in MP3 format for putting on an audio device.
What do people think about using this site?
Are some of the posts from others a turn off from using the site?
PC Magazine Review Summary:-
Pros
Unlimited storage. Easy to view Flash-based documents. Tons of interesting content. Traffic Analytics lets you track who's viewing your documents.
Cons
Navigation seems random; finding cool content takes luck. Queues for converting documents to Flash format are sometimes long.
Bottom Line
Scribd is an intriguing, if somewhat messy, platform for Web-based document publishing and discovery. If you're looking to find interesting text or share your documents with the world, Scribd can help.
Andrew
http://www.scribd.com/...
Scribd is a document sharing website. It currently houses over 350,000 documents. Scribd is a very useful Web 2.0 online application which allows you to upload a file in common formats (i.e. PPT, DOC, TXT, XLS, etc.) and an Adobe Flash Paper version is created in a player. You can easily embed the player and the content on your own Web page or blog, you can have the item viewed and even read-aloud right from Scribd's site, or you can download the uploaded file in PDF, TXT, and even the read-aloud file in MP3 format for putting on an audio device.
What do people think about using this site?
Are some of the posts from others a turn off from using the site?
PC Magazine Review Summary:-
Pros
Unlimited storage. Easy to view Flash-based documents. Tons of interesting content. Traffic Analytics lets you track who's viewing your documents.
Cons
Navigation seems random; finding cool content takes luck. Queues for converting documents to Flash format are sometimes long.
Bottom Line
Scribd is an intriguing, if somewhat messy, platform for Web-based document publishing and discovery. If you're looking to find interesting text or share your documents with the world, Scribd can help.
Andrew
Learning Objects defintion & are they passe?
Learning Objects defintion & are they passe?
In the course of planning my 2nd assignment looking at the Victorian Catholic system's learning management I have come across some chatter about learning objects. A brief reflection follows.
Many people define a learning object as a piece of information that is uploaded onto some sort of site. I do not agree with this. The salient word is learning.
A piece of information in itself is not necessarily a learning object. For a piece to be a learning object there must be an intention to assist learning- what is the purpose to assist the student's understanding/learning. As a teacher or facilitator one needs to have an aim and objective for the learning object and have thought through how its effectiveness as a learning object is to be evaluated. Also how is one to assess the student's learning is also an important facet. If no learning objects are to be assessed or evaluated what's the point of them in the first place?
Learning objects therefore do not need to be reuseable to be classified as such as long as they meet my aforementioned critieria (however once developed it is obviously useful if they can be reapplied). Again it is offered that learning objects are past their use by date. I do not think so necessarily. It almost smacks of digital snobbery- that LOs are old hat. If they are well designed with a specific purpose then they can be more than useful to assist student's learning.
Andrew
In the course of planning my 2nd assignment looking at the Victorian Catholic system's learning management I have come across some chatter about learning objects. A brief reflection follows.
Many people define a learning object as a piece of information that is uploaded onto some sort of site. I do not agree with this. The salient word is learning.
A piece of information in itself is not necessarily a learning object. For a piece to be a learning object there must be an intention to assist learning- what is the purpose to assist the student's understanding/learning. As a teacher or facilitator one needs to have an aim and objective for the learning object and have thought through how its effectiveness as a learning object is to be evaluated. Also how is one to assess the student's learning is also an important facet. If no learning objects are to be assessed or evaluated what's the point of them in the first place?
Learning objects therefore do not need to be reuseable to be classified as such as long as they meet my aforementioned critieria (however once developed it is obviously useful if they can be reapplied). Again it is offered that learning objects are past their use by date. I do not think so necessarily. It almost smacks of digital snobbery- that LOs are old hat. If they are well designed with a specific purpose then they can be more than useful to assist student's learning.
Andrew
Ning
Ning
http://ning.com/
...an easy way to create your own social network by allowing you to create the profile questions, upload all types of media, and more; use a private social network to create an interest inventory for the students in your class! Heaps of Private networks to choose from (or create your own). An interesting one that had relevance to me as a teacher was the classroom2.0 room @ http://classroom20.ning.com/ as it says "the social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development. "
Have a look, tell me what you think.
Andrew
http://ning.com/
...an easy way to create your own social network by allowing you to create the profile questions, upload all types of media, and more; use a private social network to create an interest inventory for the students in your class! Heaps of Private networks to choose from (or create your own). An interesting one that had relevance to me as a teacher was the classroom2.0 room @ http://classroom20.ning.com/ as it says "the social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development. "
Have a look, tell me what you think.
Andrew
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
OzProjects
OzProjects website is a dynamic and interactive student project site created to encourage teachers and students to collaborate and share knowledge and resources. The virtual learning environment makes it easy to learn about and include Web 2.0 tools in online projects. Collaborative tools such as forums, wikis and chats are available and learning experiences can be created around these tools. Within the projects students can upload and share photos and assignments and contribute to shared glossaries. http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/
Monday, October 6, 2008
Dumpr
Dumpr (http://www.dumpr.net/) is not technically a Web 2.0 site, but one that allows, without registration, the creation of some cool effects on a photo you upload including a cube, puzzle, and many more. Once you have chosen the effect and uploaded your photo you can save it toyour computer, upload it to flickr or send it by email.
If you register you can:
If you register you can:
- Embed your photos in myspace, orkut, facebook and blogs
- Give titles and set tags to your photos
- publish your creations in their galleries
Other effects include:
Museumr Amazing Circles Lomography Rubik's Cube Jigsaw Puzzles Pencil Sketches Reflection Easter Egg Celebrity Paparazzi Weave Lego-ize Stone Mosaic Peeling Paint Polaroid Spread
I have attached a couple of examples, it could easily be used with students especially for visual litera
cy activities. 
WiziQ- Virtual classroom
As a tertiary student @ Melb Uni I have experienced using the program Elluminate as a virtual classroom. Another Web2.0 virtual classroom is WiziQ.
WiZiQ (http://www.wiziq.com) is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun.
As a student you can locate the teachers offering a course in a subject and contact them. To start holding your live online classes, schedule a new session. Once the session gets created, you launch it to enter the virtual classroom.
As a teacher one might need to be aware that all sorts of topics are indeed covered. One would need to be aware and supervise students appropriately.
WiZiQ (http://www.wiziq.com) is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to anything under the sun.
As a student you can locate the teachers offering a course in a subject and contact them. To start holding your live online classes, schedule a new session. Once the session gets created, you launch it to enter the virtual classroom.
As a teacher one might need to be aware that all sorts of topics are indeed covered. One would need to be aware and supervise students appropriately.
Bloody Edublogs!
What is it about the Edublogs site? Apart their blog page layout much more difficult to navigate and optimise, their damn site too often seems to be down! I know it is not just me as I've followed the different OET chat at various times and forums (Elluminate & Skype). Others also report difficulties and challenges in accessing the blogs, making comments about others' blogs"stick' and add widgets or gadgets.
Now, I know it is frustrating enough as a part-time tertiary student who is working full-time in a school not being able to access edublogs when I need to for Uni, however it would be even worse trying to use it with a class. School students are going to very quickly turned off attempting to use Edublogs. For an ICT teacher in a primary school who might only get the students once a week for 40 minutes the lesson would be ruined if Edublog is inaccessible!
No wonder I prefer to blog on blogger!!
Now, I know it is frustrating enough as a part-time tertiary student who is working full-time in a school not being able to access edublogs when I need to for Uni, however it would be even worse trying to use it with a class. School students are going to very quickly turned off attempting to use Edublogs. For an ICT teacher in a primary school who might only get the students once a week for 40 minutes the lesson would be ruined if Edublog is inaccessible!
No wonder I prefer to blog on blogger!!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Camstudio
Camstudio is very useful and practical to use in a teaching environment. In yesterday's class I created a demo on how to use the address book for our email environment. When I played it for the gr 4 children they were very attentive and listened well w/o being distracted by me using the mouse or keyboard. I then had it looping for the rest of the lesson for them to follow. After the lesson I have shrunk it to email size and posted it to the grades' myclasses page (an LMS environment). As a result the children can access the demos from home and show their parents what they are learning in Info Tech lessons. I have uploaded the compressed movies for those who'd like to view them. Let me know what you think!
My Camstudio tutorial wiki can be found at http://camstudiodemo.wikispaces.com/
My Camstudio tutorial wiki can be found at http://camstudiodemo.wikispaces.com/
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Web 2.0 in Online Education
After reading through numerous and varied discourses on the Defintion of Web 2.0. It seems to me that Web 2.0 incorporates existing and new innovations that allow people to interactively connect with one another!
Web 2.0 connects and bring people into a particpatory culture and sharing, learning and creating new knowledge and literacies. It has its potential in education. As educators, we must be careful in facilitating and guiding its use to prevent students from going off tangent from the learning objectives and outcomes. We need to guide students and provide some sort of structured approach. Students could quite easily go off tangent - however with some structures in place this would hopefully prevent this from happening.
What do you think?
Web 2.0 connects and bring people into a particpatory culture and sharing, learning and creating new knowledge and literacies. It has its potential in education. As educators, we must be careful in facilitating and guiding its use to prevent students from going off tangent from the learning objectives and outcomes. We need to guide students and provide some sort of structured approach. Students could quite easily go off tangent - however with some structures in place this would hopefully prevent this from happening.
What do you think?
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