Ollie presents us some audio and video tools and the possibilities to use them in the classroom.
One of his favourite application is the application crazy talk. There you can take pictures that young people draw and animate them and add a text.Ollie shows us a number of examples drawn and animated by young students. The opportunities for creativity are according to Ollie quite endless.
A simpler version is an online tool called blabberize.
Students can use a green screen to produce their own background in a video. They can speak to an autoque and produce very powerful videos.
It is important for the students to publish their animations so that
- they are provides with an authentic audience
- for summative assessment
- they can review comments of the audience so that they can improve their work in the future
Youtube is a very powerful tool for teaching as well as video conferencing tools, like google hangouts and skype.
You can collaborate with classes all over the world with education skype. It is very interesting because it is happening in real time.
Further more Ollie introduces us to Mystery skype where the students can be motivated by being detectives trying to find out the places from where other schools are skyping. Check out this site as a resource for mystery skypes.
Wevideo is a free online video creator and editor but one can also edit a video directly on youtube editor.
Ollie presents us Office Mix. It is a free plugin for powerpoint and it allows you to capture video on powerpoint, eg to capture yourself as the presenter. In this way you can prerecord your lecture and the students can watch it as a learning activity and the teacher can check then in the classroom the understanding level of the students, provided the students have watched the video.
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