ESkills 3.4 – Audio and Video

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eSkills 3.4 – Audio and video Speaker: hello and welcome back to Module Three of this European Schoolnet Digital Skills course. This is the Fourth part of Module Three where we are going to be having a look at some audio and video tools and most importantly I used to think about how we might use them in the classrooms. We talked a lot about audio and video, in recent times we’ve been talking a lot more about video, but its also still important to remember that audio can be incredibly important as well not just in the form of podcasts but writing for audio when you can’t see the emotion on people’s faces, it’s really quite a difficult thing to do. From a personal point of view, I’ve been using audio now for over 10 years but one of my favourite example is still when I was head of Geography at Dumbarton Grammar School, every day young people used to come to my room, they would go an measure the local weather, they would record a short audio podcasts of about 60 seconds we would put them on the School Website and became very popular with the local kitesurfers. Here’s one of the examples that I kept. “Hello, I’m [student 1] and welcome to Dunbar Grammar School Weather. The weather in Dunbar today is slightly overcast with the wind coming from the SouthSouthEast at six miles per hours, although there has been some peak gusts of 20 miles per hour. The current temperature is eight degree Celsius and getting more and more. The air pressure is decreasing which could mean a change of weather. There is currently no rainfall” Well you get the idea, so it is very simple thing to do based around practical application of outline learning learning and then giving the young people a chance to develop the digital skills and present the final product to an authentic audience. It’s not just when we talk about video, it’s also not just people being in video as well, one of my favourite application from back in the days at the Consolarium was an application called Crazy Talk. There you can take the picture of people had drawn and animate them. A great way to combine art and also writing. Crazy talks is a paidfor piece of software] but there’s the simpler version which is the online and web tool called Blabberize. This is an example from my friend and colleague Derek Robertson who was working down in Dundee with primary school children on a project on the Titanic. They drew some of the characters and they animated them using Crazy Talk, so they can tell their own stories. A really powerful piece of work. “I am Sir. Alfred Reynolds I sailed on the wonderful ship Titanic, but she sank so she may not have been so wonderful after all. I was in my bed when it happened I woke up when water rushed through my cabin door. At that very second I got up and climbed through my cabin window.” You got the idea. Here’s another one of my favourites. “Hi, I’m a Dudu, the strange combination of a frog, dog, goat, monkey, tiger, bat and possibly a unicorn.” As you can imagine things really are, you know, the opportunities are quite endless for creativity. When we also talk about sound we’ve also got video and vodcasts. I’m not going to play these for you, but again from a number of years ago now these are some videos that my students creates and published in YouTube on how to forecast the weather, very very popular and very well done. This is quite a nice example as well, this is a literacy example where young people are using a chroma key, the green screen to superimpose a false background behind them and also reading from an autocue

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eSkills  3.4  –  Audio  and  video  

Speaker:  hello  and  welcome  back  to  Module  Three  of  this  European  Schoolnet  Digital  Skills  course.  This  is  the  Fourth  part  of  Module  Three  where  we  are  going  to  be  having  a  look  at  some  audio  and  video  tools  and  most  importantly  I  used  to  think  about  how  we  might  use  them  in  the  classrooms.    

We  talked  a  lot  about  audio  and  video,  in  recent  times  we’ve  been  talking  a  lot  more  about  video,  but  its  also  still  important  to  remember  that  audio  can  be  incredibly  important  as  well  not  just  in  the  form  of  podcasts  but  writing  for  audio  when  you  can’t  see  the  emotion  on  people’s  faces,  it’s  really  quite  a  difficult  thing  to  do.  

From  a  personal  point  of  view,  I’ve  been  using  audio  now  for  over  10  years  but  one  of  my  favourite  example  is  still  when  I  was  head  of  Geography  at  Dumbarton  Grammar  School,  every  day  young  people  used  to  come  to  my  room,  they  would  go  an  measure  the  local  weather,  they  would  record  a  short  audio  podcasts  of  about  60  seconds  we  would  put  them  on  the  School  Website  and  became  very  popular  with  the  local  kitesurfers.  Here’s  one  of  the  examples  that  I  kept.  

“Hello,  I’m  [student  1]  and  welcome  to  Dunbar  Grammar  School  Weather.  The  weather  in  Dunbar  today  is  slightly  overcast  with  the  wind  coming  from  the  South-­‐South-­‐East  at  six  miles  per  hours,  although  there  has  been  some  peak  gusts  of  20  miles  per  hour.  The  current  temperature  is  eight  degree  Celsius  and  getting  more  and  more.  The  air  pressure  is  decreasing  which  could  mean  a  change  of  weather.  There  is  currently  no  rainfall”  

Well  you  get  the  idea,  so  it  is  very  simple  thing  to  do  based  around  practical  application  of  outline  learning  learning  and  then  giving  the  young  people  a  chance  to  develop  the  digital  skills  and  present  the  final  product  to  an  authentic  audience.    

It’s  not  just  when  we  talk  about  video,  it’s  also  not  just  people  being  in  video  as  well,  one  of  my  favourite  application  from  back  in  the  days  at  the  Consolarium  was  an  application  called  Crazy  Talk.  There  you  can  take  the  picture  of  people  had  drawn  and  animate  them.  A  great  way  to  combine  art  and  also  writing.  Crazy  talks  is  a  paid-­‐for  piece  of  software]  but  there’s  the  simpler  version  which  is  the  online  and  web  tool  called  Blabberize.  This  is  an  example  from  my  friend  and  colleague  Derek  Robertson  who  was  working  down  in  Dundee  with  primary  school  children  on  a  project  on  the  Titanic.  They  drew  some  of  the  characters  and  they  animated  them  using  Crazy  Talk,  so  they  can  tell  their  own  stories.  A  really  powerful  piece  of  work.    

“I  am  Sir.  Alfred  Reynolds  I  sailed  on  the  wonderful  ship  Titanic,  but  she  sank  so  she  may  not  have  been  so  wonderful  after  all.  I  was  in  my  bed  when  it  happened  I  woke  up  when  water  rushed  through  my  cabin  door.  At  that  very  second  I  got  up  and  climbed  through  my  cabin  window.”  

You  got  the  idea.  Here’s  another  one  of  my  favourites.  

“Hi,  I’m  a  Dudu,  the  strange  combination  of  a  frog,  dog,  goat,  monkey,  tiger,  bat  and  possibly  a  unicorn.”  

As  you  can  imagine  things  really  are,  you  know,  the  opportunities  are  quite  endless  for  creativity.  When  we  also  talk  about  sound  we’ve  also  got  video  and  vodcasts.  I’m  not  going  to  play  these  for  you,  but  again  from  a  number  of  years  ago  now  these  are  some  videos  that  my  students  creates  and  published  in  YouTube  on  how  to  forecast  the  weather,  very  very  popular  and  very  well  done.  This  is  quite  a  nice  example  as  well,  this  is  a  literacy  example  where  young  people  are  using  a  chroma  key,  the  green  screen  to  superimpose  a  false  background  behind  them  and  also  reading  from  an  autocue  

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developing  literacy  skills  around  a  thematic  piece  of  work  where  they’re  pretending  to  be  rock  stars.  Again,  a  really  powerful  and  great  thing.  

“we  were  not  expecting  this  award  and  is  such  an  honor  to  receive  this.  I  would  like  to  thank  my  band  members,  Jesse,  Toxic  and  Jef.  And  music  man  records  and  now  thanks  to  the  teachers  that  believed  in  us.  Well  look  at  this  now.  That’s  amazing  to  receive  this  award  and  we’re  looking  for  forward  to  putting  it  on  to  our  mantel  piece,  for  everyone  to  see  it”.  

Again,  hopefully  you  get  the  idea  and  thanks  to  Gavin  Burn  Primary  School  in  particular  Jillian  Pelly  for  letting  me  use  those  clips.  So  the  whole  idea  of  video  is  really  powerful  but  also  it  comes  back  this  idea  of  authentic  audience  that  we  talked  elsewhere  about  in  this  unit.  This  is  Drummond  Community  High  School  in  Edinburgh,  and  they  have  an  animation  club.  One  of  things  they  do  in  the  animation  club  is  they  put  the  clips  online  this  allows  to  do  several  things:  first  provide  the  young  people  the  authentic  audience,  but  secondly  as  well  people  can  view  their  work  and  provide  it  with  stars,  a  mark  out  of  five,  summative  assessment,  but  also  leave  moderated  comments  for  them  as  well  and  telling  them  how  they  can  improve  their  work.  It  is  important  that  we  think  about  digital  tools  that  we  also  think  about  how  you  might  use  this  tools  to  improve  assessment  processes  as  well  as  improving  the  learning  process.  

YouTube  is  of  course  a  really  powerful  tool,  but  it  needs  to  be  built  up  with  trust  and  respect.  I  was  really  lucky  to  work  in  a  region  like  Scotland  where  YouTube  was  one  of  the  tool  which  was  unblocked  really  early  on.  In  fact,  it  was  unblocked  nearly  seven  years  ago  and  I  never  forget  going  to  this  class  and  seeing  a  group  of  girls  practicing  dance  routine  using  YouTube  Channel  and  I  was  speaking  to  the  teacher  who  just  informed  and  already  established  a  class  rules  at  the  start  of  the  year  and  she  completely  trusted  children  to  use  YouTube  responsibly.  In  fact,  of  course,  one  of  the  reasons  why  YouTube  is  still  blocked  in  a  number  of  places  all  over  the  World  has  nothing  to  do  with  safe  and  security  its  actually  to  do  with  bandwidth.  What  else,  Video  Conference  tool  can  also  be  incredibly  powerful.  Here  we  have  got  a  school  in  Dumfries  in  Gallaway  that’s  actually  been  taught  musical  instruments  using  video  conference,  again  quite  a  sophisticated  way  of  doing  things.  In  this  instance  here  the  teacher  is  able  to  work  with  a  small  rural  primary  school  to  be  able  to  deliver  the  music  curriculum.  The  reason  he  is  doing  it  this  way  is  because  the  small  school  has  only  got  one  teacher  and  that  teacher  is  not  a  music  specialist.  Maybe  not  ideal  but  an  interesting  way  of  doing  things  differently  to  help  improve  the  education  of  children  in  small  rural  areas.    

Of  course  it’s  not  got  to  be  sophisticated  video  conference  facilities,  they’re  also  offering  a  number  of  free  tools  available  as  well,  such  as  Google  Hangouts  and  Skype.  If  you  have  not  heard  about  Skype  in  the  classrooms,  that’s  education.skype.com,  that’s  certainly  worth  registering,  it  means  you  can  connect  to  literally  hundreds  of  thousands  of  teachers  around  the  world,  that  are  interested  in  using  video-­‐conferences  and  connecting  to  different  classrooms.  Here  is  a  picture  from  my  old  school  where  actually  we  were  showing  the  whole  of  the  first  year  group  of  people,  they  where    skyping  in  an  explorer  at  the  North  Pole  and  the  young  people  were  able  to  ask  him  questions  and  he  was  being  able  to  answer.  There’s  something  really  powerful  about  video  conference  rather  than  YouTube  clip  or  DVD  because  it  is  all  happening  in  real  time.  It  really  does  capture  the  imagination  of  children.  

Another  activity  that  you  can  do  with  Skype  in  the  classroom  is  that  you  can  basically  do  a  mystery.  In  this  activity  what  happens  is  children  in  two  schools  from  around  the  world  have  to  try  work  out  and  pin  point  to  the  nearest  mile  or  meter  where  their  school  is.  In  this  example  here  one  of  my  Geography  Teacher  has  twinned  with  a  middle  school  in  Edmonton,  Canada,  and  both  of  the  young  people  are  discussing  the  weather  and  also  where  the  different  schools  are.  What  a  great  rich  

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experience  that’s  got  really  great  citizenship  values  in  there  as  well.  Again,  all  of  this  possible  just  for  the  bit  of  collaboration  and  linking  tools  together.  I’m  often  asked  how  can  we  edit  videos?  There’s  a  number  of  tools  to  do  this,  first  of  all  depending  on  your  type  of  computer,  it  might  have  built-­‐in  editing  software.  If  you’re  looking  for  something  online  then  I  really  like  Wevideo,  you  can  login  with  a  variety  of  accounts  such  as  your  Google  account  or  also  your  Office  365  account  and  it  will  automatically  sync  to  your    domain.  One  thing  that  people  don’t  realize  is  you  can  also  edit  directly  in  YouTube.  This  is  a  great  way  to  be  able  to  edit  video,  particularly  if  you  plan  to  showcase    your  work  via  YouTube  platform  which  I  would  certainly  recommend  because  it  has  got  a  great  tool  to  improve  your  audience.  The  last  tool  which  I  want  to  flag  up  in  this  section  before  I  give  you  two  Hidden  Gems  is  something  called  Office  Mix.  Office  Mix  is  a  free  plugin  for  PowerPoint  and  what  it  allows  you  to  do  is  allows  you  to  record  your  PowerPoint  presentations,  it  allows  you  to  capture  yourself  as  a  presenter  a  little  bit  like  what  I’m  doing  now  and  also  add  hand-­‐drawn  annotations  and  also  quizzes  to  your  PowerPoint  presentation.  The  great  thing  about  this  is  that  you  can  use  what  we  sometimes  call  the  Flipped  Classrooms.  What  the  flipped  classrooms  is  that  rather  than  giving  a  traditional  lecture  in  a  class  you  pre-­‐record  your  lecture  and  young  people  watch  it  as  a  home  learning  activity.  This  means  when  you  get  into  the  classrooms  the  teacher  can  then  start  to  check  the  understanding  of  the  content  depending  on  if  the    young  people  if  they  watched  the  video  or  not.  It’s  a  powerful  learning  model  once  children  and  members  of  staff  have  the  habits  required  for  rolling  it  out.    It  really  has  got  the  potential  for  massive  amount  of  impact  across  Europe.    

So,  that’s  the  end  of  that  particular  unit,  I’m  looking  forward  to  see  you  in  the  next  unit.  I  hope  you  enjoyed  some  of  the  tools  and  suggestions  that  I’ve  got  there.  Moving  forward  is  important  that  you  think  about  your  own  personal  context  like  you’re  an  earlier  educator,  a  primary  educator,  a  secondary  educator  and  your  specialist  subject  area  and  think  about  how  could  you  use  sound,  audio  and  video  in  your  curriculum  by  using  some  of  the  ideas  and  adapting  some  of  the  ideas  that  I  showed  you  here.  See  you  next  time.