Thursday, March 18, 2010
Journal 6: Video Sharing: Classroom 2.0- NETS 3 and 5
The technology that I chose to investigate was “video sharing”. Video sharing is when individuals self-create and upload video clips to an Internet website that select parties can access. Then other groups can look at the posted videos and respond by creating their own videos to share and upload. Under this topic, I found a really cool discussion forum entitled “English teachers: Online Debate?” This discussion forum had over 20 responses from English teachers from all around the world talking about how they could share videos in their classrooms. The teacher who started the discussion thread teaches year 8 English (13 and 14 year olds) at a high school in Melbourne, Australia. She wanted to conduct online debates, in which students from her classroom would videotape their side of an issue, post it on YouTube and then have students from another school organize a rebuttal and post their response. The debate would be conducted solely online by looking at the other school’s YouTube videos and responding back. I think that this is a really cool way to encourage cross-cultural collaboration on projects, without having to deal with different time zones and school days. Another forum under the same category of “video sharing” that was interesting was entitled “5th/6th Grade Online Partners Wanted”. In this discussion forum, I learned about http://www.epals.com/, which is a website dedicated to connecting different classrooms from around the world for collaboration. This website includes collaboration project ideas (http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=index) as well as general information about collaborating across continents. I think this is a great resource for teachers from all around the world to use to encourage collaboration among different classrooms and schools.
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This is a really cool idea! I think it's interesting that teachers from all over the world are using this tool to communicate with each other and connect their classrooms to other classrooms. I think it would be cool for students to do it for debates with each other as well and then when they were played in the classroom they could see themselves and it would be less nerve-wracking for the students because they wouldn't have to be in front of the class.
ReplyDeletethis is a pretty cool tool, that i would see myself using in my classroom. Video sharing is a great tool, like you said, it allows students to learn different views on topics from other cultures and interact with others with an academic purpose!
ReplyDeleteVideo sharing seems like a really neat way to interact with other cultures. I completely agree with you that it is convenient because people do not have to be concerned about time zones. A debate is just one way to use the tool, I am sure teachers have come up with many creative ways to use video-sharing!
ReplyDeleteI think that this tool really does allow for cross-cultural sharing and can create a sense of comunity across borders and states through learning. I would totally use this in my classroom, as I want to teach history and we could have online debates or my students could work on asigments with students from other classrooms around the world to hear different points of view.
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty cool idea since it can connect teachers all around by just video sharing. It can help each other know what their opinions are in debates and help learn a thing or two from each others cultures and beliefs.
ReplyDeleteI think this tool is one of the most beneficial I have read about, not only does it teach students how to create a video and post it, but it also encourages cross cultural collaboration and interaction. I believe learning and connecting with cultures worldwide is key in learning. If we teach are students only about the country they are from, and how to communicate only with those similar to us, when students are released in the real world will be lost and unable to communicate or understand.
ReplyDeletevideo sharing is such a cool idea. Youtube is the most entertaining site I've ever seen! It also gives tutorials on basically everything!
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