Comments on: AWESOME Digital Learners Video!!

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:13:39 +0000

Perhaps this is a better example of how powerful simple multimedia is and that users with a sound understanding of a concept can produce media that conveys that understanding and incites heated discussion (teachable moments).

I think I will tag it in del.icio.us so this video and the conversation it generated can be used when we run our next workshop on video in education.

By: Jeff VanDrimmelen

Jeff VanDrimmelen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:24:30 +0000

Great insights! I hadn’t even thought of any of these comments. Claude, you make a great point. It is exciting to me because I am doing these things… but to someone not doing it, they could get offended. Thanks for the insight Claude!

By: Claude Almansi

Claude Almansi — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:22:36 +0000

Unlike Durff, I loved the perfect fit between word animation and music. But the text message remains terroristically pushy in spite of the music coating. If I were a teacher hesitating about using the tools advocated in the video, the browbeating through stats and imperative verbs would certainly put me off.

In fact, it strongly reminded me of a conference in 1995 where sociolizing zealots of the internet were munching McLuhanoid mantras about it. I left muttering “The expense of bullsh*t in a waste of sham” and never went near a modem for the next 3 years.

Then in 1998 the people at the vocational teachers’ training institute asked if I would do translations for an “ICT in education” project. My line as a translator was literary essays, but I needed the money, so I said yes if you tell me what ICT means and let me ask as many other questions as I need”.

And THAT was interesting. The project was about bringing distance training possibilities to isolated Alpine valleys. They were using a “learning platform” that looked like a village. I wanted to use one too, because my students were corresponding with a class in another part of the country, but I was teaching in middle school and that platform was for vocational schools only. So the other teacher and I opened an MSN community instead.

That was Web 0.9 – 1.0 time. But the point remains the same. If you tell folks they are a criminally backwards inefficient bunch, they’ll crawl back into their shells, If you show them something that’s close enough to what they need, they’ll get interested.

By: Jeff VanDrimmelen

Jeff VanDrimmelen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:21:13 +0000

Great point Durff… It is really 1.0 isn’t it? I didn’t think about that. I personally didn’t make the video, I just liked it and thought some others might find it useful too so I posted it up here.

So are you offering the remake?

By: Durff

Durff — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:19:51 +0000

Nice message, nice music, nice Web 1.0 video. How can you change it to align with your web 2.0 message? I got bored after the 3 slide – maybe I’m just becoming like those digital natives…

By: Jeff VanDrimmelen

Jeff VanDrimmelen — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:42:05 +0000

That is a great point John. These are all great ideas because we are familiar with all of them. Teachers that are getting into this need concrete examples.

By: John Martin

John Martin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:37:59 +0000

I’d love to see a version of this that integrates real examples into the dialog. Show educators what this looks like and make it even more real. Show them that others are doing this and while it might take a bit of work that the rewards are worth the trouble.

Thanks for sharing this!

John