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From DSC:
How will these types of technologies affect what we can do with K-12 education/higher education/workplace training and development? I’d say they will open up a world of new applications and opportunities for those who are ready to innovate; and these types of technologies will move the “Forthcoming Walmart of Education” along.
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Evidence of learning online: Assessment beyond the paper — from CampusTechnology.com by Judith Boettcher
…learning designer Judith Boettcher examines online assessment strategies beyond the traditional end-of-term paper.
Excerpts:
Professional Work Products
Interviews
The interview medium is a very flexible communication tool and can be used by both faculty and students for demonstrating understanding and eliciting the state of concept development. Here are some possible strategies that can require research, critical thinking, and writing.
Audio, Video, and Visual Projects
What about other media such as audio and video projects? Today’s learners live surrounded by audio and video and the tools that make it possible for everyone to create and produce audio and video products. Here are some of the possibilities with audio and video spaces.
Blogs
Blogs are a very underutilized writing space. Blogs share many characteristics with journals and thus can capture snapshots of what learners are thinking, and when; plus they often can also capture the sources of some of their thinking. Blogs help learners understand the growth cycle of learning new concepts and how and why they think the way they do. Here are some ideas on how blogs, both personal and class, might be used.
Wikis
Video abstracts at the New Journal of Physics
Video abstracts are a brand new content stream for New Journal of Physics, aimed at increasing yet further the visibility of our authors and their work. Through this video media authors can now go beyond the constraints of the written article to convey their research, and provide a new, enhanced user experience for the journal’s global audience.
NJP articles with a video abstract are flagged with the 
symbol. Full details about this new feature can be found in the video abstract guidelines. You can also read some of our author quotations.
Salvaging VHS tapes — from NspiredD2 by Chris Clark
From DSC:
Thanks Chris for this posting. Another piece of hardware that’s often used here is the ADVC 110 (that is, we hook this unit up to both a VHS player as well as to a Mac).
What’s the optimum length of an online video? — from Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
Embedplus.com — resource and quote below from Shola ‘Tay’ Omojokun, Co-founder, EmbedPlus.com
EmbedPlus can allow users to seamlessly and freely upgrade the videos they embed with attractive features that the standard YouTube player does not currently offer. It was recently mentioned to me that supported features like annotations and scene editing would be useful for teachers wanting to mark up lecture, demo, and videos posted on wikis, blogs, etc. Slow motion and zoom can have some useful applications for art, nature, and science videos.
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EmbedPlus as an educational tool for videos
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From DSC:
With the increase of digital video, digital storytelling, lecture capture, and other related educational technologies, this tool may be helpful to you. Thanks Tay for the resource.
Addendum on 2-18-11 — also see:
From TeachMoore blog by Renee Moore
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Addendum (2/12/11) — also see:
The following airs Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT:
Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century Digital Media: Chapter 1
Chapter 1 features experts in the field of digital media and its use in education.
Chapter one of Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century criss-crosses the nation to highlight real-life examples of how digital media is exploding in educational environments.
Originally seen at startl.org
MUSIC PAINTING – Glocal Sound – Matteo Negrin — from Technology in Art Education blog
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Perhaps you can enlist some talented students to create something like this, including:
Semantic technologies and learning — from Steve Wheeler
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The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Our guest editors have done a great job drawing together 5 excellent papers under the banner of ‘Semantic Technologies for Multimedia Enhanced Learning Environments’ and for Learning with ‘e’s readers, here is the editorial in full, with excellent summaries of all the papers by our special issue editors Marco Bertini, Vladan Devedzic, Dragan Gasevic and Carlo Torniai…
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This special issue solicited papers focused on the use of semantic technologies in multimedia-enhanced learning environments. In this call, we were especially interested in publishing research reports and lessons learned in the following research tasks:
- Ontologies and semantic annotations for multimedia learning objects.
- Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects.
- Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments.
- Semantic technologies for enabling pedagogical theories in multimedia-enhanced learning environments.
- Semantic-enhanced learning designs in multimedia-enhanced learning.
- Semantic technologies for personalization and adaptation of multimedia-enhanced learning.
- Semantic-rich service-oriented architectures for multimedia learning environments.
- Semantic multimedia content for (collaborative) mobile learning.
Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Dan Perkel, and Christo Sims — with contributions from Anne Balsamo, Maura Klosterman, and Susana Smith Bautista
© 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The MIT Press | Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England
Excerpt:
This report synthesizes research and examples of the diverse ways in which organizations approach and integrate digital media and technology into their youth programs, practices, and philosophies. We aim to clarify a framework for understanding organizational efforts related to digital media and technology and to establish a foundation for future research in this area. Our guiding questions for this report are:
