vod/pod casting
After brainstorming with my class about the integration of computers into our daily class life you may remember that one thing the kids first thought wouldn’t integrate and then discovered that maybe they could was listening to the notices. We have a radio system in the school that is slowly dying and it’s frustrating not being able to hear. So … this was what we came up with …
Listen to notices
- filmed (vodcast)
- recording (podcast)
- video chat
I reported this to my principal and he came back to me with an email (this was after we’d talked about it as well) saying “Sounds great…Can you have a child come to my office each day after notices to get a copy of them?”
Next week we are going to embark on a great journey … every day we will collect the notices after he’s finished reading them over the radio.
On Monday I will facilitate recording (no idea how yet? digital camera for vodcast or cellfone? my laptop for podcast?) the notices and we’ll work through it as a whole class.
The following days I’ll hand over to the kids to do.
I’m thinking I could write a small notices websitey thing where we could embed the videos maybe … or else just put the vodcast/podcast into a shared folder on the server and then it will be up to the individual teachers to access them …
ideas and comments please … the more the merrier!!
Great idea! I think you might have to “deliver” the vodcast/podcast to the teachers rather than letting them access from a shared folder. Things in shared folders at our school tend to gather digital dust.
A wiki would work well. A reward (bribe) system is good for getting people to tune in. (e.g. when you have read this, come and whisper the secret word to me for a chocolate fish). We had to do that to get teachers to open a weekly email from the principal.
teachernz&barb thanks for your comments … i’ll be doing some chatting with the principal about what we can do – another teacher is interested in video as well and we could possibly do this together
i’m now at the point where some of the chn are asking if they can work during lunchtime making videos – i just provide the teacher presence -they do the scripting, videoing, d/l to computer, captioning etc … these chn learn fast!