Last Lecture/Tutorial
In the tutorial for week 8, groups had been issued with different scenarios to study whilst in the tutorial, followed by designing a presentation based on the positives and negatives of the scenario.
The topic ‘Diagnosis’ was allocated to our group. The opening paragraph for the topic was “Prepare for a future where education diagnoses student potential, determines their place in the community and maps out their future. This is where you fit in. Get on with it” (Zagami, 2011). Furthermore, a description of the scenario was allocated to our group by Dr. Zagami in our tutorial. Using the given text, the three of us put together a list of positives and negatives for the topic. First of all we changed the topic name to ‘labelling’ as we believe it is another term and perhaps a common term used rather than the term ‘diagnosing’.
Our group came up with more negatives than positives as determining a student’s place in their future community is awful. How can one be labelled either a failure or success at such a young age? The students who are labelled as a low achiever, does not have the opportunity to excel at a subject they have not been exposed to in primary school that they might excel in at high school (ie. Drama or complex Science) or in extra curricular activities (ie. dance or football).
Dr. Zagami then mentioned the term 'streaming' currently occurs in a lot of schools. The majority of the time high schools stream when allocating students to Mathematics classes. I can relate to this topic as I was streamed whilst completing high school mathematics.
Group Assessment
As ‘blogged’ in week 6, our technology, content and pedagogy has been decided.
Webspiration Classroom
To have access to our technology, Webspiration Classroom, a 30 day trial had to be downloaded for each of us to be able to utilise any of its features. Alternatively, purchasing Webspiration Classroom is available too. Once the program had been downloaded, I was able to create an account as a ‘teacher’ then create student accounts which branch off from the main teacher account. This is for the teacher to create documents and 'collaborate' the activities to their students which then can be shared between other students should they be collaborating on a group assignment.
Webspiration Classroom
To have access to our technology, Webspiration Classroom, a 30 day trial had to be downloaded for each of us to be able to utilise any of its features. Alternatively, purchasing Webspiration Classroom is available too. Once the program had been downloaded, I was able to create an account as a ‘teacher’ then create student accounts which branch off from the main teacher account. This is for the teacher to create documents and 'collaborate' the activities to their students which then can be shared between other students should they be collaborating on a group assignment.
Vimeo
To upload our video, we decided to use the website http://www.vimeo.com/ which was introduced to use by Dr. Zagami. He suggested to use this should one have songs not created by oneself as www.youtube.com takes out the music content of your video if they come across it. I believe Vimeo has better quality than youtube.
Camtasia Studio
My role was to focus on the content area for our PD video. As we selected English, I was able to select up to three examples Webspiration Classroom had to offer. As we wanted to demonstrate Webspiration Classroom and its amazing features to implement into classrooms, it was suggested to download a trial program of Camtasia Studio. Camtasia Studio is a program which records your curser movements on the computer screen. The program not only captures your work on the computer, it captures your voice when making a demonstration (TechSmith, 2011). This program had very helpful videos on how to use Camtasia Studios which gave me the confidence on navigating the program.
Editing
The longest part of completing our PD video was editing all our content we wanted to include in the movie. We utilised Jess's Macbook pro as it had the iMovie program. iMovie gave us the opportunity to develop our PD movie into a professional video. I thoroughly enjoyed putting the video together especially having the ability to work collaboratively. Below you shall see a link to view our Professional Development Video. Unfortunately, Blogger was not giving me the opportunity to 'embed' our video. However, this will give those of you who have not had the opportunity of using Vimeo to have an pleasurable experience.
I hope you enjoy viewing our PD video! I know I did!
Reference
Editing
The longest part of completing our PD video was editing all our content we wanted to include in the movie. We utilised Jess's Macbook pro as it had the iMovie program. iMovie gave us the opportunity to develop our PD movie into a professional video. I thoroughly enjoyed putting the video together especially having the ability to work collaboratively. Below you shall see a link to view our Professional Development Video. Unfortunately, Blogger was not giving me the opportunity to 'embed' our video. However, this will give those of you who have not had the opportunity of using Vimeo to have an pleasurable experience.
I hope you enjoy viewing our PD video! I know I did!
Reference
Camtasia Studios. (2011). Screen recording and video editing software. [Computer Software]. TechSmith Corporation.
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