Searching for "video"
http://twincities2016.thatcamp.org/
virtual scatchnoting sharing
confluence as a service.
notability versus evernote http://www.gingerlabs.com/
Virtual Reality
put the horse before the cart.
immersive augmented (elements 4D, comes with iPAD) reality. MS Hololens
Google imcardboard.com
HTC Vive (comes with two handheld controllers), Oculus (special relation in front of user), OSVR, laser towers, spacial awareness in the room,
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=holo
what is available now and what will be available.
how do you distinguish VR from gaming and gamification: when the latter lets us be in control and try again and again
and when it is digital storytelling.
hearts and minds. immersive environment. based on PTSD ethnography
virtual reality as recreating lost reality. whereas CL is more of creating new reality.
MS Hololens incorporates Skype
cheating in virtual environment versus cheating in real environment.
computer archaeology. just a tool, but not something will solve all problems.
Digital Literacy and Preparing Students for the Workforce
Digital Technology Is Changing the Career Landscape
- People are living longer.
- Technology can now augment and extend our own abilities.
- Daily life is now computational as innovations in sensors and processing make our world a programmable system.
- Our new media ecology and advances in communications systems require media literacies beyond text.
- Social technologies are driving new forms of production and value creation.
- Our world is now globally connected, highlighting diversity and adaptability.
Digital Literacy Is a Professional Competency
media-rich education, including interactive approaches such as digital storytelling or remix education, ensures that students are familiar with modern tools and “natural language” modes of expression. We are increasingly moving into what many scholars consider a post-literate world, one in which images, video, and the written or spoken word are used fluidly together, symbiotically, to communicate increasingly complex concepts. Modern rhetoric now includes TED talks, animated lectures, visual essays, and a plethora of other interactive and dynamic multimedia.
Smart Classrooms = Smart Workers
ten, technology-oriented strengths as “must haves” for future employers:
- An ability to determine deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed via all mediums.
- An ability to connect with others in a meaningful and direct way via modern technologies and our global networks.
- A proficiency in problem-solving and critical analysis, especially when working with digital relationships or data.
- An ability to adapt to different cultural settings and modalities, necessitated by our global media ecosystem.
- An ability to translate specific information and data into abstracts while understanding the underlying reasoning.
- An ability to critically assess and develop content that uses evolving digital media, leveraging these tools for direct and persuasive communication.
- A transdisciplinary, multimedia mindset that eschews specialized or localized intelligences.
- A design or goal-oriented mindset that employs systems thinking and that develops tasks and work processes towards a desired outcome.
- An ability to discriminate and filter both digital and analog information for importance, while maximizing cognitive and productivity efficiencies.
- An ability to work productively and innovatively via virtual collaboration.
Digital Backpack, is certainly one of the first steps, as is developing an educational framework within which students can meanfully and productively interrogate our technologically driven world.
To learn more about incorporating media in the classroom, download Digital Literacy On-Demand: Visualizing Best Practices in Higher Education, our guide to best practices for multimodal learning and digital media on campus.
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More on digital literacy in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy
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more on digital storytelling in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+storytelling
10 Social Media Apps You Should Be Using in 2016 (But Probably Aren’t)
The Roll app will help you make sure your images are the best they can be. The Roll analyzes your photos, rates them on a zero to 100 scale, and adds keywords for easy search (much like Google Photos).
The Roll has more features than I have time to write about it here. Just do yourself a favor and check it out. Your visual content will thank you.
Download The Roll for iPhone
Tuurnt is a social media app and platform following in the ephemeral footsteps of Snapchat. Giving users 24 hours to respond to photos and videos, Tuurnt turns regular visual posts into social events where participation and contribution from both known contacts and public users is encouraged.
The app allows you to take photos and videos from your phone’s camera roll (or from Instagram, Flickr, and Dropbox) to create a shareable “story.”
Yubl’s success can be attributed to not only the highly detailed interface, but the three main areas of the user experience. “Private” is for one-on-one or invite-only group, ‘Public’ is an open forum across the entire social network (including brands and celebrities), and ‘Explore’ is for searching and finding other users such as brands and celebrities.
share your favorite movies, music, books, TV shows, videos, restaurants, bars, travel destinations, and anything else you like.
plan your trips, acts as a guide, encourages you to capture moments along the way, and then ‘relive’ your experiences.
Download Firef.ly for iPhone
send and receive money free of charge, transfer to your bank, and checkout on other apps with just one touch.
Create, delete, and manage contact groups for easy, quick communication with teams, friends, and family. iOS only
Quik allows users to create stylized videos with just a few taps on their mobile devices. Once your video is done, you can post directly to your social media accounts through Quik.
my note. compare Quik to other video editing free tools for mobiles: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/01/21/video-editing-for-mobile-devices/
The app bridges the gap between your phone and computer, and, as Gizmodo explains, “automatically sends all your phone notifications over to your computer in the form of little windows.
The New Horizon Report, 2016
http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-launches-app-for-the-2016-nmc-horizon-report/
page 24. Improving Digital Literacy
For years educators have leveraged curation tools such as Scoop.it, Storify, and Pinterest to help students critically evaluate online resources.
(my bold to emphasize the difference between the definition of digital literacy, which I am fighting to establish at SCSU LRS and the continuous “information literacy” trend of the reference librarians )
Mapping Digital Literacy Policy and Practice in the Canadian Landscape
A well-rounded digital literacy incorporates print literacy but adds new capacities, competencies and comportments into the mix. Now included is the technical know-how to create a website, produce and upload a video, edit an image, design a functional information architecture for accessing or sharing knowledge – as well as many “soft skills” such as critical thinking and ethical behaviour. One of the primary transformations of the digital era in the 21st Century has been the introduction of end-users as actors in the world of communication, autonomous (producers and consumers of information) who can access and disseminate content in Web 2.0 domains without the regulatory controls of traditional filters and gatekeepers. Given this development, end-users now need greater critical thinking capacities to manage content: to decide what is valid and truthful and be able to incorporate multiple perspectives and voices into expanding worldviews. Additionally, exhibiting ethical behaviour in what may be said or posted online is essential to contemporary civic mindedness whether in a local context or the broader global village.
Getting Started: Multimedia Literacy
http://guides.lib.udel.edu/multimedia
Multimedia literacy is the set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create multimedia.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/teach/digital-literacy/elements-of-digital-literacy – too simplistic, too traditional, no significant departure from the conservative information literacy
More on digital literacy in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy
4 Great Curation Tools Created by Teachers for Teachers
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/04/4-great-digital-curation-tools-created.html
April 28, 2016
Edshelf
Edshelf is ‘a socially curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning. You can search and filter for specific tools, create shelves of tools you use for various purposes, rate and review tools you’ve used, and receive a newsletter of tools recommended by other educators.
Graphite
a free service from nonprofit Common Sense Education designed to help preK-12 educators discover, use, and share the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula for their students by providing unbiased, rigorous ratings and practical insights from our active community of teachers
Scoop.it
find out content related to your topics by ‘reviewing your suggestion lists and the topics from other curators
educlipper
social learning platform that allows teachers to curate and share educational content. Some of the interesting features it provides include: ‘Explore top quality education resources for K-12, create clips from the web, Drive, Dropbox, use your camera to capture awesome work that you create in and out of the classroom, create whiteboard recordings, create differentiated groups and share content with them, create Personal Learning Portfolios, create Class Portfolios as a teacher and share Assignments with students, provide quality feedback through video, audio, text, badges, or grades, collaborate with other users on eduClipboards for class projects or personal interests
Survey: What Gen Z Thinks About Ed Tech in College
A report on digital natives sheds light on their learning preferences.
Like the
millennials before them, Generation Z grew up as digital natives, with devices a fixture in the learning experience. According to the survey results, these students want “engaging, interactive learning experiences” and want to be “empowered to make their own decisions.” In addition, the students “expect technology to play an instrumental role in their educational experience.”
to cater to the digital appetites of tomorrow’s higher education learners, technology in education will need to play a bit of catch-up, states the New Media Consortium’s 2015
Course Apps report. According to NMC’s analysts, digital-textbook adoption was one of the leading trends helping to reinvent how higher education students learn. But publishers have not captured the innovations happening elsewhere in the digital marketplace.
The Generation Z report ranked the effectiveness of 11 education technology tools:
- Smartboards
- Do-It-Yourself Learning
- Digital Textbooks
- Websites with Study Materials
- Online Videos
- Game-Based Learning Systems
- Textbook
- Social Media
- Skype
- Podcasts
- DVD/Movies
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more on Gen Z in this blog:
Generation Z bibliography
Student Self-Perception
- 45% of students consider themselves to be highly digitally literate
- Another 31% would describe themselves as moderately literate
- Only 19% of students consider themselves somewhat literate
Outside Evaluation
- Only 14% of educators rated their students as highly digitally literate
- 40% of educators consider their students to be moderately literate
- An almost equal percentage of educators—39%—would rate their students as only somewhat literate
Educator Self-Perception
- 49% of educators described themselves as highly digitally literate
- 36% of educators rate themselves as moderately literate
- Only 14% of educators consider themselves as somewhat literate
Outside Evaluation
- Only 23% of students rated their instructors as highly digitally literate
- 35% of students consider their instructors to be moderately literate
- An almost equal percentage of students—33%—would rate their instructors as only somewhat literate
What is digital literacy:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/11/12/digital-literacy-3/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/02/18/3048/
More on digital literacy in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy
Kindle Oasis vs Kindle Paperwhite 3 Comparison Review
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2016/04/30/kindle-oasis-vs-kindle-paperwhite-3-comparison-review-video/
Technology tools for history lessons
HSTRY Timeline Creator.
HSTRY is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or tablet. With a HSTRY account you can build timelines in a vertical scroll format similar to that of a Facebook feed. To start the process pick a topic and upload a cover photo. To add events to the timeline just click the “+” symbol and select the type of media that you want to add to your timeline. You can add videos, images, audio, and text to the events on your timeline.
There are two features of HSTRY that make it stand-out from the crowd. First, as a teacher you can create an online classroom in which you can view all of your students’ timelines. Second, as a teacher you can build questions into timelines that you share with your students. You can even build-in explanations of the answers to your questions.
For other timeline creation tools, check out this chart.
My note: HSTRY could be a great tool, if the organizers were not that greedy. Their plan + kicks in way to early and does not allow participants to collaborate. E.g., Zaption allows teachers / students to “share” their presentations, but HSTRY asks right away to upgrade. Thumb down!
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5 Timeline Creation Tools Compared – Chart
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/5-timeline-creation-tools-compared-chart.html
Free Online Tools for Creating Timelines – Richard Byrne – FreeTech4Teachers.com
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Multimedia options |
Collaboration options |
Registration required |
iPad/ tablet compatibility |
Output/ publishing |
| Timeline JS
timeline.knightlab.com |
Text Images Videos |
Yes, if you collaborate through Google Spreadsheets*** |
Google Account required. |
Display: yes Creation: no |
Embed code for posting on blog / website. |
| RWT Timeline
bitly.com/1ym46nY |
Text Images |
No. |
No. |
iPad app bitly.com/1vMTI7C Android app bitly.com/1vOcZEB Web app bitly.com/1ym46nY |
PDF.
Image saved on camera roll. |
| TimeGlider*
timeglider.com |
Text Images |
Yes. |
Yes. |
Display: yes Creation: yes |
Embed code for posting on blog / website. Direct link to TG page. |
| Dipity**
dipity.com |
Text Images Videos |
Yes. |
Yes. |
Display: yes Creation: no |
Embed code for posting on blog / website. |
| MyHistro
myhistro.com |
Text Images Videos |
No. |
Yes. |
Display: yes Creation: iOS |
PDF.
Embed code. |
*TimeGlider’s basic plan is free for students. A paid subscription is required to activate collaboration tools.
**Dipity’s basic plan is free for students. The basic account is limited to three timelines.
***Timeline JS utilizes Google Spreadsheets as the basis of timeline event creation. Students collaborate on a spreadsheet to build timelines. A video of the process is available at http://bitly.com/1zRLdr5
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More on the use of technology in history in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=history
New Model Lets Students Rent Textbooks on Pay-as-You-Go Basis
By Michael Hart 04/12/16
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/04/12/new-model-lets-students-rent-textbooks-on-pay-as-you-go-basis.aspx
Once students register with iFlipd, they can rent digital textbooks for as little as a week. Once they finish using a book, they can move it back into the digital catalogue, making it available to other students. There is a loyalty program that gives points toward free rentals.
iFlipd is also integrated with Datalogics and its interactive Active Textbook e-book system so that students have sharing capabilities. They can share notes on the texts through the platform and access notes made by previous users of the same textbooks. The note-sharing platform allows for highlighting, annotations, audio, video and search.
