MEDEAnet workshop‘Multimedia Applications in School

Education'3-4 April 2013 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

ITPIO in association with the Regional Inspectorate of Education in Blagoevgrad

ATiT

• Belgian company set up in 1999

• Primary interest in the best use of technology to support learning

• Particular media interest in media

• Over 500 different activities, projects or jobs of varying size

Training Consultancy

Production Management

ATiT

www.atit.be

Training

Use of technology to support learning

Kenya: Producing and publishing media for online learning

Iraq: Social media - journalists & public relations staff

Educational video production courses

Week long courses in 2011, 2012 and 2013

Courses in 2013

• Creating your own apps for teaching and learning

• Use of social media for Lifelong Learning Project managers

www.atit.be

Production

Portal services to support network development and maintenance

Voices against CorruptionSchool Leadership portal

Interactive devices for cultural and educational events

Sportimonium

Pigeon

Video relay services in the medical field

www.atit.be

Consultancy

World Bank

Global Distance Learning Network

National governments and agencies

Philippines

Indonesia

European Commission

Framework R&D

Lifelong Learning Programme

www.atit.be

Management

Event management

Special events – e.g. kaleidoscope dissemination event

Large conferences – Online Educa Berlin and eLearning Africa

Media & Learning Conference

European projects in the role of supporting: Dissemination, Pilot and/or Evaluation

REC:all

VISCED and ReViCa

Web2LLP

SAILS

www.atit.be

Moving images in EDucation European

Awards

• Annual awards since 2008

• With animations, weblectures, documentaries, videoclips, games, ...

• Free to enter – any production made in past 3 years

• French, German, English, Italian, Spanish or Polish

• Over 700 entries since 2008

• Visit website and media gallery

MEDEA Awards related activities

Media & Learning monthly Newsletter

Media & Learning

Community of Practice

Media & Learning annual conference

in Brussels

Media & Learning Resources database

MEDEA2020 2011-2012

project

MEDEA:EU 2008-2011

project

2 day workshops

Week long training courses

MEDEAnet 2012-2014

projectWebinarseries

MEDEA Association

• International not-for-profit association to enhance innovation and creativity in teaching and learning across all levels of education and training in Europe

• Board of 6 founding partners

• CSP (President Eleonora Pantó)

• ATiT (Secretary Mathy Vanbuel)

• Aunege Association of French Universities (Treasurer Gerard Casanova)

• IADT – Bernard Mullarkey

• EITF – Ene Koitla

• KU Leuven – Wim Van Petegem

MEDEA Association

• Membership recruitment drive for organisationalmembers starting Spring 2013

• Membership benefits:

• Facilitation service – finding appropriate partners , and provision of advice on project set-up and management

• Training and workshop service

• Access to database of MEDEA entries

• Annual conference benefits

• Dissemination services, newsletter, webinar service, online community support

The MEDEAnet project and the MEDEA Awards

The MEDEAnet project

3-year (Jan 2012 – Dec 2014)network project funded under

KA3 of the Lifelong Learning Programme

Aiming to:

• Exploit best practices of the MEDEA Awards

• Extend its existing informal network

• Support the MEDEA Association

MEDEAnet activities

MEDEAnetpromoting

media-based learning

to organisations

and practitioners

a 12-part series of public

webinars

knowledge building

and sharingamongst

practitioners

workshopsin 7 partner

countries

a large-scale

disseminationand exploitation

strategy

Annual reportCharting Media and Learning in

Europe

Moving images in EDucation European

Awardswww.medea-awards.com

• Awards’ background

• Previous awards winners

• Judging Criteria

• Activities related to the awards

• MEDEAnet project

Only when video and audio are routine components of education and online learning, that we will have an educational environment that reflects the media-rich world in which our

learners now live.

Organisation and vision

• Partners in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, ...

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“

Who can participate & How?

• Students, teachers, audiovisual departments, schools, training centres, professional producers,... from all educational levels

• Animations, weblectures, documentaries, videoclips, games, ...

• Free to enter

• French, German, Polish, English, Italian or Spanish

Special PrizeSpecial PrizeSpecial PrizeMEDEA AwardMEDEA Award

Finalists

• Finalists take part in Media & Learning Conference and awards ceremony in Brussels

• Prizes include awards, software or hardware

• Interviews and published extracts of finalists in theonline media gallery

User-Generated

Educational

Media

Professionally

Produced

Educational

Media

European

Collaboration

in the creation of

Educational

Media

Educational Media

Encouraging EU

Citizenship

MEDEA Jury

Special Prize

Judging Criteria

• Pedagogical quality

• Media use and integration

• Aesthetic quality

• Usability

• Technical quality

• New jury members are always welcome!

First 2 years

• 2008: 121 online entries from 25 countries

• 2009: 254 online entries from 38 countries

“Anti-Anti”Sint-Lievenscollege Ghent

(Belgium)

MEDEA Special Jury Award 2008

“Know IT All for Primary Schools”Childnet International

(United Kingdom)

Overall Award 2009

2010 & 2011

• 2010: 140 online entries from 31 countries

• 2011: 115 online entries from 28 countries

“BBC News School Report”BBC

(United Kingdom)

Overall Award 2010

“INgeBEELD Media Wisdom Platform”CANON Cultural Unit

(Belgium)

Finalist 2011

2012

213 online entries from 32 countries

Quand la colère fait tomber les masquesUniversité Paris 1 (France)

Overall Award for professionally produced entry

And the Oscar goes to……5th Primary School of Alexandroupolis

(Greece)

Overall Award for user-generated entry

Showcases and examples

European Chain reaction – special award 2011

Weapons of Mass Destruction – finalist 2011

Planet SciCast – finalist 2009

Daisy and Drago – winner 2009

The Classroom – finalist 2010

Five Little Ducks – Highly Commended 2008

Changing lives – special awards 2011

Monkey Labs Games – winner 2011

Green schools War on Waste Highly Commended 2010

http://www.medea-awards.com/media-gallery/showcases

Participate in theMEDEA Awards

2013!

Deadline 30 September 2013

More information on www.medea-awards.com

or contact secretariat@medea-awards.com

Links

• MEDEA Awards: http://www.medea-awards.com

• Media & Learning Conference: http://www.media-and-learning.eu

• Media & Learning Community & Resources database: http://www.media-and-learning.eu/community

• Media & Learning News: http://news.media-and-learning.eu

• MEDEAnet project:

http://www.medeanet.eu

Why Video for Education?

• Video surpasses the written word

• Seeing and hearing is better than reading or hearing and reading

• Video stimulates emotionally

• Information is conveyed more successfully by demonstrating

• Video is a compact, concise media

• Video is attractive (for GenerationX, Y, Z…)

Video ProductionLet’s make a complex process simple

1. A familiar, engaging and learnful subject

2. Prepare an outline or “script”

3. Carry out research, collect the essential information

4. Record the material (images, screens, sound, graphics…)

5. Edit the video

6. Publish the video

What do you need?

• Subject

• Time

• to prepare

• to record

• Location

Subject

Two main types

• An event organised by others or somewhat out of your control over time and location

• football game, theatre play, live lesson

• a touristic video

• a vox populi

• An event under your control

• demonstration, fiction, presentation, animation, interviews

Good preparation

• Scenario (storyboard) or planning

• Location scouting

• Find/meet actors or experts, accessories ...

• Rehearse and practise

Scenario/storyboard

• See the film in your mind (role of video and of audio)

• Put the film on paper

• script, scenario, storyboard...

• Why is it important?

• Foresee: (4C)

• control during the recording (and editing!)

• content

• continuity

• cost

• Execute the recording (but don’t forget to prepare it!)

What do you need?

• Camera:

• DV (or best affordable) www.whatcamera.com / Video magazine

• web cam?

• Screen cam

• Photocamera…

• Tripod for video recording: safety first

Possibly also

• Additional microphone, headphones

• Additional batteries

• Lights

Good images

• Enough light and good light

• no dark, grainy images

• Use tripod

• jerky images make seasick and cost bandwidth

• Choose camera position and angle carefully

Free Screen Recording Software

• http://www.techsmith.com/jing.htmlcapture your screen for videos, add text boxes, arrows or rectangles to highlight spots, record audio together with the video

• http://camstudio.org/open source screen recorder software records all screen and audio activity on computer, creates AVI or SWF

• http://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.htmlFirefox add-on records screen frame by frame with voice and provides AVI output

• http://www.utipu.com/screen recording with audio and video, AVI and FLV output, audio can be re-recorded, trim beginning and end, zoom video to mouse cursor with smart zooming and ability to draw free-style during recording

• http://www.debugmode.com/wink/tutorial and presentation creation software, capture screenshots, add explanation boxes, buttons and title, records voice, creates highly compressed Flash movies

Video Editing Tips 1

• Always shoot with the editing in mind:

• take different shots, close shots, wide shots, hold the camera steady, film enough footage, you can always cut out later what you don’t need.

• Work organized:

• if you are making a longer movie, prepare a storyboard up first. Name your clips in your video editing software. Use the same names as you use in your storyboard. If you don’t name your clips you will end up with a heap of files and you will lose a lot of time trying to find the footage that you are looking for.

• First assemble:

• Once you have your footage loaded into the editing software, start with creating a “rough cut”: put the main footage you want to use in chronological order in the time line.

Video Editing Tips 2

• Cut out the crap:

• trim the beginning and endings of each clip and cut out all the unusable shots

• Tell your story:

• where can you add close ups? What shots can you add to enhance the effect? Try out different things and notice the impact, effect or feeling, the emotion that the video brings across

• Take it easy:

• Your shots last at least between 2 and 10 seconds. Vary shot lengths, some longer shots and then some shorter ones. Don’t go for the stroboscope effect, MTV or boredom. In about 5 seconds, the human brain has seen most details of a picture

Video Editing Tips 3

• Add some effects:

• bring your audience into the movie, prettify your movie. Careful: try to “feel” what different effects do to your movie, don’t go crazy with flipping and twirling stuff, read the language of movies

• Create intro, opening and closing titles:

• have a proper beginning and ending, black at the end of a movie creates a dramatic effect. When a title follows black, the audience can relax.

• Add music and sound effects:

• test different kind of music tracks for your video and “feel” the difference. A good choice of music will enhance your video

First steps of a « story »

• What do you want to tell? What is its purpose?

• Define the learning outcome/objective

• Start research and documentation

• Get a lot of ideas & inspiration!

• Start distilling the information

• Make a first outline

• Evaluate

• Produce detailled script

• The place of video for learning in the learning context, integrating video in the learning process

• Not all learning can always be done entirely in every video…

Remembering

Actions:

• recognizing,

• listing,

• describing,

• identifying,

• retrieving,

• naming,

• locating,

• finding

Understanding

Actions:

• interpreting,

• summarizing,

• inferring,

• paraphrasing,

• classifying,

• comparing,

• explaining,

• exemplifying

Applying

Actions:

• implementing,

• carrying out,

• using,

• executing

Analyzing

Actions:

• comparing,

• organizing,

• deconstructing,

• attributing,

• outlining,

• finding,

• structuring,

• integrating

Evaluating

Actions:

• checking,

• hypothesizing,

• critiquing,

• experimenting,

• judging,

• testing,

• detecting,

• monitoring

Creating

Actions:

• designing,

• constructing,

• planning,

• producing,

• inventing,

• devising,

• making

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Ideas…

• Biographical and Autobiographical videos e.g. Animoto

• Common craft video (hand drawn, cut out)

• Stop-motion videos (Jellycam)

• Documentary

• Flipped classroom (Khan style)

Flipping The Classroom

• Flipped learning: students watch instructional videos for homework and use class time to practice what they’ve learned.

• Presentation software (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote, Smart Notebook)

• You can make high-quality educational videos for your students. Here are a few Video Rules.

1. Keep it short

• YouTube generation

• Bite-sized pieces: just the quadratic formula, not anything else. One topic equals one video.

• 3 minute rule?

2. Animate your voice

• Engage your students, use your voice to make videos exciting

3. Create the video with another teacher

• Powerful conversation instead of watching a talking head

• Dialogue is helpful in comprehension of the material

• Like radio show

4. Add humor

• Put a running joke in (but only for the first minute or so)

• Humor brings interest to the video, which keeps the students interested

5. Don’t waste your students’ time

• Students are watching this in their own time. Keep to your topic.

6. Add annotations

• Think of your screen as a whiteboard: use annotation to add pen markups or similar

7. Add callouts

• A callout is a text box, a shape, or some other object that will appear for a while in the video and then disappear.

• Bring attention to the key elements in a video

• Show steps in a problem

8. Guide the eye of the viewer

• Zoom in to different portions of the screen: zoom in to the portion of the picture that is most important for comprehension, help the students focus

9. Keep it copyright friendly

• Video will likely be posted online, make sure that you follow appropriate copyright laws

Elaboration

• Who, (protagonist, antagonist)

• What, (plot)

• When,

• Where, (setting)

• Why,

• How

Simple Guidelines to Instruction

1. Gain attention

Stimuli activate receptors

Simple Guidelines to Instruction

2. Inform learners of objectives

Create level of expectation for learning

Simple Guidelines to Instruction

3. Stimulate recall of prior learning

Retrieval and activation of short-term memory situation

Simple Guidelines to Instruction

4. Present the new content

Selective perception of content

Simple Guidelines to Instruction

5. Provide "learning guidance"

Induce storage in long-term memory

6. Practice

Perform acquired knowledge

7. Provide feedback & Assess performance

Retrieval and reinforcement of content as final evaluation

8. Enhance retention and transfer to next level

Retrieval and generalisation of learned skill to new situation

Action!

Assessing the video project: post-production.

• Did video demonstrate what you said it would in outline and script?

• Did the audience (classmates) learn something from the final product? Did they learn what you wanted them to learn?

• Was the final product engaging?

• How does the audience evaluate the product?

• Was it worth the trouble?