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A Force more Powerful: Blended Leaning Mixing Concept Maps with Video. Mark.Geary@dsu.edu Gabe. Mydland@dsu.edu Credits – Kathy Schrock. What you will see.
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A Force more Powerful: Blended LeaningMixing Concept Maps with Video Mark.Geary@dsu.edu Gabe. Mydland@dsu.edu Credits – Kathy Schrock
What you will see • Visual tools, such as pictures, movies and concept maps can be a valuable educational aid, and when combined, can be even more engaging! • Students can learn while creating content. Welcome to DSU
Why? 21st Century Skills Learning and Thinking skills - Critical Thinking and Problem-solving - Creativity and Innovation - Information & Media Literacy 21st Century Assessments - A balance of assessments is needed. Assessments must use modern technologies…
Non-linguistic Representations • According to… • Marzano • Marzano speaks of non-linguistic representations as one of his nine core strategies for improving instruction (by 15%). These include: • Creating Graphic representations • Drawing Pictures or Pictographs • Generating Mental pictures PhotoStory 3, MovieMaker 2, Cmap and Bubbl.us are additional tools for non-linguistic representations
New Visual Literacy • Navigate, evaluate, communicate • Access to world class photography • Social networking components • Creative Commons • Video creation and sharing http://techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=196604382David Jakes, “Web 2.0 and the New Visual Literacy” Technology & LearningApr 20, 2007
Photo & Video sharing sites • Pictures/videos can be tagged • Search pictures/videos • Allows pictures and videos to be posted • Viewers can leave comments • Ex: Flickr, Photobucket
Consider • “Our children are like arrows, shooting forward into a future we cannot visit, not even in our dreams” Kahil Gibran Author
Our Visual World • The average youth spends __________ hours watching TV by the age of 18. • He/she spends ___________ hours in school. 22,000 12,000
Motivation? • _________ % of college students would rather pick up trash than write a paper; • _________ % would rather donate blood. 30 50
Brain Bandwidth 1,000,000 • Each eye has ______________ fibers to the brain; each ear has ______________. • Humans process visual info _________ times faster than text. • Words are processed ___________, images _____________________. (keyboard vs. camera) 30,000 60,000 sequentially simultaneously
Why bother? • Using illustrated materials, retention and recall increase _________ % and transfers to long term memory a whopping _______ %. • Recall is increased ________% in color. 42 89 89
Why Photostory3, Cmap & MovieMaker? WHAT teachers need to know HOW teachers teach Content, compassion& passion INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Why teachers should do this Bubbl.usCmap Visual LiteracyTechnologyTools YouTube ICT, 21st CenturyMarzano, Myer, Alverman, Tovani, Burmark and Vygotsky Photostory 3 Self-directedMovies BlendedMovies
Photostories • Lasts from 30 seconds to 7minutes max • Audio is clear • Used to illustrate topic in movie format • Scan small pictures in at higher DPI, to avoid pixilation Photostory 3
Cmap & Bubbl.us • Cmap is a FREE Concept Mapping download that duplicates much of the functionality of Inspiration. http://cmap.ihmc.us/ • Bubbl.us is an online concept mapping tool.
Cmaps can also be used as an assessment tool Writing ConferenceAssessment
Mike Kamrud’s Portfolio http://students.dsu.edu/kamrudm/Portfolio/Portfolio_Template.htm
Bubbl.us • Brainstorming and concept mapping • You can collaborate or make maps read only • Use “menu”, “export” to export as .jpg image file.
Digital Presentations - Rubrics • DigiTales • http://www.digitales.us/index.php Rubistar at http://rubistar.4teachers.orgis a GREAT website for creating rubrics. It gives you samples for different project types, then lets you edit and save online.
rubistar.4teachers.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOzRhNTQic
SchoolTube.com Frank Sulloway
Using Video from the Web • In a perfect world, we would always be able to access whatever video we need for teaching and students could not misuse. • Sometimes we need to capture video at home for school use
Zamzar.com • An online file conversion tool • Converts to many formats(use .avi or .wmv) • Zamzar will send you a link to download video file
What you saw • Visual tools, such as pictures, movies and concept maps can be a valuable educational aid, and when combined, can be even more engaging! • Students can learn while creating content Welcome to DSU
Let’s get started! • CreditsKathy SchrockLynn BurmarkR.L. Erion • Questions? Email me at: Mark.Geary@dsu.edu Gabe.Mydland@dsu.edu