PowToon supports my learning once again. (photo credit to Pixabay user aitoff).
For this assignment, I once again made a foray into the world of PowToon. I am a novice at creating animated videos but PowToon feels intuitive for me. The only glitch here was the quality of the video and the time required to develop the video. I created the video only to realize that certain ‘Pro’ elements were still embedded when I thought I had removed them all. Alas, unwilling to spend $90/mth on the Pro version, I dove back in to edit some graphics back in (and selected the lower resolution video)! This experience was a perfect example of the technology hijacking the instruction, as time spent on visual presentation took away from the content.
Educational technology lesson learned!
Here is the video of my Timeline of Big Edtech Ideas in Higher Education.
Christy
September 16, 2018
Hi Christy
First off well done! It was engaging and interesting. I just wanted to make a comment on your part on youtube and khan academy. To me, that was a huge jump forward in education. The introduction of bite-sized instructional videos that were accessible at any time and anyplace was a game changer. Now when you google any topic you can find khan type videos on most topics. Now the issue becomes how to sort out the good and accurate from the false information. I’ve been making khan type videos myself the past 4 years for my students. They find a lot of value in them and they are fun to make (and really not that hard to do). Keep up the good work!
September 16, 2018
Thanks Chad! I’m glad that you enjoyed the video. I definitely feel the same about educational videos that became available online around 2005. I’m a highly intrinsically motivated learner and it was like my heaven to have free learning at my fingertips!!! Some of the most motivating and inspirational videos I have ever seen can be found on youTube. But you are right…how do we sift through all this information with a critical lens if we are not already taught to do so? There was a global cafe held at RRU when we were there for the MALAT residency and some incredible discourse occurred as a result of us considering how we would like to see change in education. At one of my tables, we had conversations around teaching basic critical thinking skills to allow youth to spot the false or non-supported information they would come across online. I think that would be an incredible start.
Thanks again,
christy
September 16, 2018
Very Informative video Christy, Great job!
I am very interested to see the future developments in MOOCs as we progress. Having had the opportunity to listen to Daves presentation in the MALAT virtual symposium was very fundamental in getting to understand how they function and the different principles governing them. I have such an appreciation for the different resources available at our fingertips, which aids in knowledge building through shared experiences and the use of various resources.
Cheers,
Phyz
September 23, 2018
Thanks Phyz! I’m glad you enjoyed it. When I watched the video about MOOCs in our virtual symposium, I had no idea what the term MOOC was! Yet, I had already utilized Udemy, Lynda.com and edX for training/educational courses at that time. Now that I can reflect on the content of the courses I had enrolled in, they were all presented in ‘Sage on the stage’ model, with the instructor/subject matter expert lecturing in video format…endlessly!!! Two of the courses were quite extensive and needless to say, I did not finish either as they could not hold my attention for 20+ hrs each.