Class 12: Digital Audio

Chromebooks

• MB has been buying truckloads preparing for remote learning
• The peoples' computer -- cheap, powerful stable. 
• One Laptop Per Child
• Windows 10, MacOS 
• pricy, elitist, exclusionary
• Digital Colonialism (Interesting theoretical perspective) 

Theory: Some interesting older philosophies and theories still inform our understanding of current reality. 

• Cartesian Dualism
• Rene Descartes 
• pineal gland.
• Digital Dualism
• Hypothes.is 
• Join the Group at https://hypothes.is/groups/aVV8qPv3/ict-for-education

A little more Digital Video

• Windows10 Game Recorder and Video Editor. 
• YouTube Streaming or upload
• Slow Motion 

Podcasting

• Blurring distinctions
• just about every media outlet uses a combination of digital audio, video, and text. 
• CBC Story

Three steps

• Recording
• Posting to a server
• Distribution to an audience

Some services offer all three steps

Download Audacity with Lame

Podcasting platforms

• Internet Archive
• Anchor, 
• SoundCloud

Class 11: Video

Audio Visual representation has been a mainstay of educational practice. 

Some times helpful some times just plain enjoyable. http://listen.hatnote.com/

Visual and auditory inputs provide powerful amplification of educational efforts.  

Some theory first

• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
• Social Presence Theory
• Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning 
• Cognitive load theory
• Schemas

Neuropsychology investigations of learning processes sometimes turn our assumptions about aspects of learning and information processing upside down. My early experience learning how to do sterotaxic implantation and now. 

RSVP Rapid Serial Visual Presentation 

• Spreed
• Kreeder Chrome extension that allows you to read Kindle books with RSVP

YouTube was one of the first online video platforms and its clones are still ubiquitous. The first YouTube Video

Vimeo

TeacherTube 

Khan Academy simple 5 minute videos. Organized cognitive chunks

Streaming video has become a very popular format.

Many other social media platforms now offer video capture with all sorts of funky add-ons. Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook. 

OBS Open Broadcasting System lets you stream video to Twitch or YouTube. 

    

Class 10: Four more weeks, 8 more classes

What we have done?

Course Outline Revisit

• Objectives
• Activities
• Accounts
• Portfolios
• Concept maps
• Lesson Plans (Objectives, Prerequisites, Resources, and Notes)
• Collaboration
• Video
• Podcast
• Map
• Presentation
• TPACK
• Where do you fit? 
• Paper
• Zotero
• Google Scholar
• Hypothes.is
• Expectations: Work completed to this point
• Blog entries: Descriptive and reflective
• Pages started for each major activity
• Collaborative lesson plan complete
• Specific learning objectives identified
• Subject area
• Grade level
• Bloom's taxonomy

What we have left to do?

• Video
• Maps
• Podcast