Background: My co-planner and I have been struggling with a way to manage our end of year project for our twelfth grade English class. We wanted to have the students create videos of an earlier paper project, incorporating new objectives into this extension project. The idea was to have the groups view each others' videos before the final exam day. It would be difficult to manage eight groups all watching videos at the same time in the classroom setting, not to mention the drain on already limited time, as seniors end their school year early. DimDim affords us the opportunity to use the video hosting site youtube which is currently blocked by the school system. With this hosting, and the use of DimDim, students can 'meet' about the videos without having to physically be together to discuss the content. This web 2.0 product solves the problems we were struggling with in reference to our assignment.
Objective: Students will use DimDim application to meet outside of class to evaluate end of year social issues video to prepare for final exam.
Activities:
1. Students, in groups, will previously have created animated videos of their social issue topics as a final product evaluation during class, which will be uploaded to host website, youtube.
2. Teacher and students will set up meeting conference using DimDim. This will allow students to view video and conference with each other about the contents of the videos and the analysis of the videos necessary in preparation for the final exam.
3. During conferencing, students will view videos, and comment on them based on teacher provided evaluative tool. Students should use tool to rank the videos based on these guidelines. The whole conference chat allows each student the opportunity to comment on the videos, providing opportunity for input on evaluation.
4. Recording the conference will allow for replay of information to the teacher and the creation groups.
5. Students will reconvene on the final exam day having completed the evaluation section of the assignment and be prepared for the final day activities.
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Online collaborating and teaching can work, If you have trust and the right tools.
ReplyDeleteTry http://www.showdocument.com - its good app for uploading documents and working on them in real-time.
- Josh
Thanks Josh. This is a similar product to the DimDim application that I was given in class, but I like that it specifically hosts YouTube videos, and allows you to pause them and interact with them collaboratively. I am in the process of looking at TeacherTube as alternative, too, but it lacks the interactive feature your site has provided.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
-Aime
Hi Aime,
ReplyDeleteWith Dimdim, you can actually show live videos from the internet in the presentation area, which is sounds like you want to do. You can also co-browse with a fellow student or teacher, hold private and public chat, screen share, white board, hand over the controls of the meeting to someone to run, video chat with several people...the opportunities are endless.
How can I help you get comfortable with those features?
Thanks,
Andrea
andrea@consortpartners.com
for Dimdim