Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot

Digital Learning Styles, Gen Y & Yahoo!

Related Resources

• Yahoo! for Teachers + Slideshare 
• Slideshare Group > Yahoo! for Teachers
• Yahoo! for Teachers
• Learning Styles 2.0: Digital, Social, and Always On

TeacherTube: Video Community for Teachers

TeacherTube, the latest service joining the Web 2.0 education boom, is burning up the edu 'sphere with rave reviews. As the name suggests, this new service is YouTube for teachers. TeacherTube also has community features via TeacherTube groups. I think this is a brilliant idea, and frankly, one that educators have been wanting for a long time.

However, moving forward, I think it will be interesting to see how well TeacherTube is able to scale and keeping up with growth. They will also face the same challenges that all other educational providers have in terms of site blocking by school administrators, user abuse, as well as the 100 pound copyright gorilla.

The TeacherTube community has created, uploaded and shared a lot of great content. For example, you can find anything from (via site or tag search) professional development tutorials on PBWiki, to a Google Earth Tour of the life of Anne Frank and her family.

Another great feature is the ability to attach support materials (handouts, worksheets, teacher notes) right on the same page as the video for other teachers to use.

TeacherTube also "plays nice" with other forms of social media by providing you with a link and/or HTML snippet so you can easily embed a TeacherTube video directly into your class website, wiki, or blog.

Fantastic!

Related Resources

• Teacher Tube Tutorial > Uploading Video
• YouTube > K-12 Group
• Jumpcut > Yahoo! Teachers Group
• Points of Viewing Children's Thinking
• YouTube in MyClass

Jumpcut: Black Sheep Air Squadron + WWII

Web Resources

• Wikipedia > Black Sheep
• BBC > World War II
• World War II + Yahoo! Answers
• Black Sheep Squadron

Yahoo! + JumpCut

Big news! JumpCut is joining Flickr and del.icio.us as the newest member of the Yahoo! family of social media and community tools! Yay!

If you aren't familiar with JumpCut, it's like a web based version of iMovie, with easy (and free) video editing tools and a healthy dose of sharing, tags, and community thrown in to make it extra fun.

This is a great tool for teachers and students alike. And since it's web-based, students can work on their projects at school or home. Pretty cool, eh?

You can create movies from pictures (using the Flickr uploader tool), audio, or video. You can even grab video from other members of the JumpCut community and remix it into your own original production.

But don't worry, just like Flickr and MyWeb, you set the privacy level of who can see or use your creation. So go ahead and try JumpCut in your classroom!

Web Resources

• JumpCut
• JumpCut > Blog
• Flickr Hacks + Edu
• Flickr+Edu
• Education, Web 2.0, & Yahoo!
• JumpCut + Yahoo! Teachers

Film Education Resources

This year the Sundance Film Festival is celebrating its 25th Anniversary as the premier film festival in the United States. As part of the Sundance Film Festival's educational outreach program, the Sundance Institute is sponsoring Sundance Shorts, an online showcase of short films.

The Young Filmmaker Program, held each summer at the Sundance Institute, provides a unique opportunity for students interested in pursuing a career in independent film to meet other young filmmakers and explore their talent and creativity.

The UK-based Film Education also provides teachers with several study resources including, film specific CD-ROMs and educational online resources, study guides, generic study guides and videos, plus education materials in digital video editing.

What I admire most about the independent film community, in addition to their creative and collaborative culture, is their willingness to explore new ideas, concepts, and possibilities with passion!

Perhaps we could import a bit of that indie film passion into the education community by actively seeking out new and innovative approaches to learning, teaching, and education technology.

Links

• Sundance Film '06
• Sundance Institute
• Film Education
• Art of Possibility
• Edutopia: Film School