Though our weekly discussion, I shared with my class a way I do things differently to actively engage my students through the use of flip videos. “…the digital camera is fast becoming a primary recording device for today’s active learners.” As Dr. Thornburg stated in his article, students enjoy the luxury of taking home the experiences around them through the digital camera. This footage can be used in making digital presentation, movies, books, or integrated with other technology. In the past, students could write about or take pictures of their experiences. Once these writings or pictures diminished the activity would also become more and more vague over time.
Now, students can do thing much differently through the use of recorded footage of the event. This footage allows them to richly relive the event unlike any other former generation. The advantages of this technology is the ability to remember and re-experience many important details of an event that would normally would fade from memory with time and distance between the event. This reliving of the experience can be done at the click of a button. Also, many more people can experience this event besides those who attended. "New technologies...make it easy to publish and distribute them to wide Internet audiences." The audience grows to anyone willing to watch the footage on a blog, a website, an animoto, or even on a Twitter feed.
I'd love to hear your ideas of how you use digital videos in your classroom!
Reference:
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Thornburg, D. (2004). Technology and education: Expectations, not options. (Executive Briefing No. 401). Retrieved from http://www.tcpdpodcast.org/briefings/expectations.pdf
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