Jing #2

Using Jing you can create many educational aids for the classroom. Below you will see an example of an educational aid I would use in a classroom when explaining how to insert a new slide into PowerPoint. I could also place blanks where the text is and use this as a formative assessment.

Here is my Jing Screen Capture



Here is my Jing Screencast


ISTE-NETS-T STANDARDS
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
This standard is met through the creation of a image that can aid in the visual learners learning. It can help to demonstrate and emphasize what is being taught. The creativity is that it is a snap shot of work actually done by the instructor, rahter than a text book produced image.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
The creation of the image and the implmentation of it meets this standard. A jing graphic could also be used on a test for labeling or explaing what is happening.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
The use of Jing is technology and digital age work, by using this you are creating encourgament of 21st Century Learning skills and the use of those skills in work.

Bender Converter - YouTube Video

After several unsuccessful attempts to download a YouTube video, I have found a solution. After talking with Dr. Pierce about the matter and discover the amazing Bender Converter, I have been successful in downloading a YouTube Video. The bender converter is a very neat site in which you just paste the URL of the video you want to convert and then convert the movie to a certain file type. For my case I converted the file to a .mov because I have a mac computer.

I was sucessful in downloading the video! Yay! I know have the video save on my personal computer, for playback as I choose.

The video that I downloaded was: Did you Know 2.0. It is about technology and how it is changing our lives.



ISTE NETS T STANDARDS

I believe this process meets all of the standards because of the digital media involved with a YouTube video, the software requirements to download the video then upload it into a blog post and the entire process in between, I believe that I have learned a great deal through this experience because I had to learn from my mistakes, and it did not work on the first try or even the second or third. That is part of the learning process though, you have to discover to understand and learn.

PhotoStory Video

Photostory is a great progam used on a Windows Operating System. I have implemented in a many of my classes and seen first hand that student motivation and participation increase with the student learning. The students are excited to complete the work but are unaware of how much they are learning through the process of this activity.

While I have used photostory, I have a MAC computer and was unable to use PhotoStory to create my video. I used instead iMovie which is very similar to PhotoStory and still allows you to create videos with the use of pictures, text, and images.

Click Here to see my video

ISTE NETS T STANDARDS

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
This standard is met by having the students use a program to use pictures to represent their understanding of a topic

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Expereiences and Assesments
This standard is met by the actual desing of the photostory.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This standard is met by the production of the photostory as a video and the upload onto YouTube.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
This standard is met by the topic covered in the Video - Cyberbullying.

Youtube Video and Loop Video

COULD NOT DO THIS DUE TO FAILURE OF DOWNLOADS ON PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT.

PLEASE SEE PREVIOUS BLOG POST.

Get a You Tube Video

THIS DID NOT WORK AFTER MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS AND MANY HOURS OF WORK.

I am currently having trouble, bing able to download software, need to get access by administrator. I am having Internet troubles at home to be able to download the program onto my personal computer. .

http://saveyoutube.com/ is one site to download a program

another site is http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php

I am having trouble doing this on campus, I will have to attempt when I get home, and hope I can find one compatible with a OS operating system.

After many downloads and extensive wastes of my computer's space I have failed in attempting to find a program that can help me successfully download a video of my choice. I have an OS operating system or a MAC computer that makes the program list smaller than that for Windows Operating Systems. I tried to complete this assignment on campus, however you can not download content unless you are an administrator, so that attempt failed as well. I downloaded multiple software programs, but the program I seemed to be the most useful was iSkysoft Free Video Down loader. However in all of the programs I downloaded, my videos failed to be downloaded. My theory on these failures is that the author of the video has requested a type of protection to make sure their video could not be downloaded, therefore causing all of my attempts to fail. As you will see evident in the image below.






I am requesting that I be excused from this assignment as I have exhausted all options including available space on my computer.

Some of the videos I attempted to download:

YouTube Video 1

You Tube Video 2


YouTube Video 3

YouTube Video 4

Shorten URLs

Shorting an URL can be beneficial in many ways. A shortened URL is easier to remember, therefore a customer, visitor, or student might be able to type the address straight into the URL box rather than performing a search for the website. Shortened URLs are also better when you are displaying the URL or need to write/copy/paste into other locations.

When considering my URLs and Websites, I recall my Student Teaching experience. Many of the students had great difficulty typing in the web address or URL for the Keyboarding Site I created. I chose to use this site and shorten the URL.

The original URL was:
https://sites.google.com/site/keyboardingskills/
This was a length of 48 characters

The new URL created is:
http://tinyurl.com/Ms-Chenoweth
A length of 31 characters

I was able to reduce the size of the URL by 17 characters! Wow! This will make it easier for the students to type in the correct URL. In addition I was able to create a less complicated URL, one in which is more easily remembered than the previous URL. Some of my first attempts did not work with the words: Key, Keyboarding, and Keyboard.

This could prove to be beneficial, especially as I am a Business Education Teacher and I use google sites regularly.

ISTE - NETS - T Standards
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
This is important for student to understand the importance of URLs and what they are for, as well as the importance of having an URL that is easy to remember. The exploration in this activity and the creation of a new URL meets this standard.

Voice Thread

Voice Thread is a very neat tool,in which people can collaborate over topics, ideas, pictures, presentations or ideas. I thought this was a great tool to be introduced to. The navagation through the tool and it's features was very simple. I had no problems when creating a comment on the Voice Thread "Why do I Want to be a Teacher?" In this particular situation I debated if I wanted to use the text comment tool or the record tool, in the end I chose the record tool. There are 5 ways to make a comment, which makes it very interesting. I like this new learned tool.

The ISTE-NETS-T Standards

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
You are using both audio and visual aids to encourgage learning and meet your literacy and auditory and visual learners. The technology will encourage the students to participate and inspires creativity and participation.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
This standard was met by the development of this activity.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
This example meets this standards, as some of the same criteria stated under standard 1.