Journal #3

"Video in the Age of Participation"
By Glenn Bull

This article discusses the wide world of video streaming online today. There are so many resources that are available to students and teachers that we don’t take advantage of. There are live digital videos, educational videos connected to teaching standards, and editing services to allow you to fit the video to your curriculum. We as teachers and future teachers need to start incorporating the large world of video on the internet into an effective teaching tool for our students.

What are some ways to incorporate online videos into the teaching curriculum?
The Discovery Education United Streaming Website provides videos that connect to different learning objectives and activities. Other sites to retrieve classroom-oriented videos are Annenberg Media (http://www.learner.org) and PBS (http://www.pbs.org/teachersource).

How can you use video editing services in order to fit your teaching standards?
Discovery Educator’s Network provides a way to edit and remix unitedstreaming content that is licensed for students and teachers. Only one-tenth of the unitedstreaming users participate in the remix program. It is a great way to edit the videos to fit your content and then republish them for other teachers to use. Next Vista is also an established site used to edit and share videos along with new Web 2.0 sites that are beginning to share videos. All these efforts are made for teachers to incorporate technology in the classroom, now it is up to us to use our resources.