Journal 3

Video in the Age of Participation
by Glen Bull

Glen Bull gives examples of National Geographic, PBS and Discovery's use of technology with video. The new technology allows for us to watch a water hole in Africa 24 hours a day with great detail. Also there are resources available to teachers and students alike through places such as PBS and Discovery. Discovery Education offers small bits of video that the teachers can use according to their lesson plans. There is also a insurgence of video being made everyday. Discovery Education created a Network where teachers and students can take a video and edit it to fit their lesson. These videos are available to the people belonging to the network. There is an emergence of Web based resources that offer many high quality educational videos that are geared more directly to objectives of a lesson than old movies and VHS videos.

Question 1: How will I incorporate video into my classroom? I would love to design a lesson where the students have to create a video that teaches the lesson. This would be a reinforcement to the lesson itself and they would be able to use their creative skills as well as their technical skills.

Question 2: What kind of lessons are appropriate for video? The appropriateness would have to be considered. Any lesson could be done as a video presentation however the students would have to be mature enough to handle the issues respectably. There should be careful not to stereo type or inappropriately depict a person or their culture.