Lots of good sharing at the meeting Tuesday 27th Feb at 8:00PM ET.
We had one share of a generic movie that could be used for an introduction to almost any class (online or face to face). The machinima was created in WoW and is titled Successful Journey.
The absence of voice in the video had us talking about how some of us don't really like to record and hear our voices and we use tools to alter our voices or we just add music and use sub-titles. This is not the case with our students. M. Howard shared a project she did with her 11 year old students using https://info.flipgrid.com/. The project required students to record responses to a set of questions and every student responded to more than what was required because they had "so much fun". The software does record student images so care is taken to keep student identities private and the audiovisual clips are NOT public. If voice is one of technologies next big disrupters, how does this information affect how and what we teach? Should we be paying more attention to speech, diction, clarity and articulation?
Some of the complaints about using machinima in the classroom have focused on time (not enough of it) and software (too complicated and/or expensive). We have had some minimal experience using some simple and inexpensive or even free tools to help in this regard. These are screencapture tools and Gif creators. We are going to play with each and create some clips, maybe a series of clips to compare and to evaluate the effectiveness of each. We'll share our findings in April (the last Tuesday of the month - April 24.
Virtual Tour of ISTE Island on Avacon.
We had one share of a generic movie that could be used for an introduction to almost any class (online or face to face). The machinima was created in WoW and is titled Successful Journey.
The absence of voice in the video had us talking about how some of us don't really like to record and hear our voices and we use tools to alter our voices or we just add music and use sub-titles. This is not the case with our students. M. Howard shared a project she did with her 11 year old students using https://info.flipgrid.com/. The project required students to record responses to a set of questions and every student responded to more than what was required because they had "so much fun". The software does record student images so care is taken to keep student identities private and the audiovisual clips are NOT public. If voice is one of technologies next big disrupters, how does this information affect how and what we teach? Should we be paying more attention to speech, diction, clarity and articulation?
Some of the complaints about using machinima in the classroom have focused on time (not enough of it) and software (too complicated and/or expensive). We have had some minimal experience using some simple and inexpensive or even free tools to help in this regard. These are screencapture tools and Gif creators. We are going to play with each and create some clips, maybe a series of clips to compare and to evaluate the effectiveness of each. We'll share our findings in April (the last Tuesday of the month - April 24.
- Gyazo https://gyazo.com/about
- Spark https://spark.adobe.com/
- Talltweets https://talltweets.com/
- Windows 10 Video Recorder ( Tap Windows Key and G to activate)
- Quicktime on Mac
Virtual Tour of ISTE Island on Avacon.