Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Reaction videos - "Did You Know" and Barry Bachenheimer's assignment...

Following up on Barry Bachenheimer's assignment that asked graduate students to...

Thinking about Friedman, Pink, Fisch, and the other authors and ideas you've been exposed to in class this week, create your own "mash up" video in the form of "Did You Know". The video has no set length but should question, ponder, expose, consider, inform any of the ideas from this class that you would want to share. You can select who your "audience" would be; a colleague, your department, your school, your principal, this class, the world. etc.

I have directed my students (undergraduates at Colorado State University) to watch the videos produced by Bachenheimer's students and then produce their own "mash up" videos about something that they have a passion about (related to education).

Here are the videos that my students produced. Several are on TeacherTube and the rest are on YouTube. I have included links to all and I have embedded two. I want to say thank you to my students! Great work! And thank you for sharing your insights into our shifting world.


Did you know...
Did you know: Accessing technology
Did you know the value of a dollar?
Facebook is always watching
How will your kids play?
Our World: Version 2.0



The importance of foreign language - Did you know



The transitioning teacher
Waste
Wealth of useless information
What's next?

2 comments:

Barry Bachenheimer said...

James,

Kudos to you and your students for some great projects. Its authentic, demonstates understanding of an idea, and effectively communicates it to others in a medium that is easy to see (and pass on.)

Question: How did your students find producing mash ups? I found that when I did this assignment, about only 15-20% know how to use Photostory or iMovie to produce it. The rest started with Powerpoint and I worked with them to convert it.

Again, great assignment! Perhaps we can collaborate on it next semester!

Barry

James said...

Barry,

Thanks for the comment. We started with PowerPoint and did some converting. They learned iMovie and did a good job. I heard several teams that said that it was difficult to find good creative commons music. What is your experience with this?

Let's talk about a collaboration.

Jim