Journal #3

Journal #3
Video in the Age of Participation

Summary: The article starts out talking about YouTube, which is a site that shows digital homemade videos, and how it’s clear that digital video is the next frontier in the technology world. It talks about how teachers have used videos and movies to effectively teach in the classroom and how they can access different sites online which show videos. One of these sites is about the National Geographic and it has a camera on an African site. The article talks about how digital video is connected to standards as well. Teachers are to connect these videos directly to what they’re learning. The article also talks about how people are uploading their video clips daily. DEN (Discovery Educator’s Network) is an experiment that allows teachers and students to download and edit these videos. Once they have done this they can upload the revised video to the DEN site! The site ends by talking about new technologies that will help the education of our children. Most things are based on text book materials and in the future this may be different.
Questions: 1- Why do we want so much technology in schools? Technology is something that is changing so quickly and we want our children and teachers to be kept up to date. It will be a huge problem for our students if they go onto their next school not knowing how to use any type of technology. We want our children to be experienced to the max in every type of technology we have to offer.
2 – What’s so great about digital videos? So you know how you have all of those old Videos lying around the house of your child’s first baseball game. You have to fast forward and rewind to the good parts. Well not anymore. With digital videos you can edit your movies by putting in what you want and leaving out the not so important parts. It’s fun and easy to do and it keeps you more organized!