ICT Tools -Group 2: Images, Podcasts & Digital Video

ICT Tools-Group 2: Images, Podcasts & Digital Video.

Images

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be captured by optical devices–such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as thehuman eye or water surfaces. The word image is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, or an abstract painting. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphicstechnology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph. A volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper ortextile by photography or digital processes.

Source: Wikipedia

Tools for working with images:

Resizing photos: go to: Moba photo

Digital images online: Flickr: I have created an account and added a photo here.

I have also trialed and tested be funky creative website and have uploaded a photo and changed its appearance: like this:

Picture retrieved from here.


Extended entry on the images:

Affordances:

Teachers:

• Could be used as the hook for the class- powerful image, let the students brainstorm and begin associating the words with the picture.
• Can aid the written material and link the powerful images with it.
• Can aid visual learners.
• Can illustrate the events more effectively with images.
• Can illustrate the information and processes visually with diagrams and graphs.
• Can create powerpoints with images and zoom in the powerpoints by using Prezi.

Students:

•  Can create and share visual material through blogs and wikis.
• Can express themselves better with images that relate to what is being asked in some assignments by using graphs, mindmaps, photographs and so on.
• Can add personal, family photos to share information about themselves.

Positives-

• Provides variety, breaks up the written text and makes it more interesting and meaningful.
• Images can say many words, let students describe the image in descriptive words in English classes.
• Can make the Blogs, wikis more personal by adding own photos or the things that the students like.

Negatives-

• It is risky and dangerous to upload personal pictures and information, there are many cyber bullies and others that are willing to abuse the internet and do the wrong thing.
• It is important to  know what you can and can't share with the world and be aware that attribution applies and that some pictures need permission for the usage and the distribution.

Applications:

• Can be used at home and in the classroom. Powerful power point presentations with images.
• In German classes, the countries profile and states can be presented visually, foods, culture and other German-related images supplied to the class. In English, persuasive text can have images to go with it, advertisment, students describing a topic in anything, will be able to add images to it. Images can also be used to make a movie with a movie maker.

Digital audio recordings: see Experience with Voki  here.

What is a digital audio and a podcast?

A podcast:

A podcast is simply a sound file. But it is a sound file that is shared with others, usually by subscription. Clearly, podcasts can be accessed online, created by others across the web. They can be accessed online as files that you create for your students. But importantly, they are also files that your students create and share by uploading online.

In its simplest form, it is a recording of student performance or speech that is saved on a computer. This recording can be done direct to computer, or using a device such as a portable voice recorder or MP3 player. These recordings can be used in their own right, or can be used to provide a sound track on a movie, or embedded in PowerPoint.

In the next step up, audio recordings can be uploaded online. They can be uploaded to wikispaces, but unfortunately not into your blog. However, you can link from your blog to your wiki. The wiki will embed your voice recording into a player so it streams from your wiki page. Recordings can either be downloaded or streamed.

Digital audio can be embedded into the wiki space but not the blog, however the students can link the wiki site to their blog.

This is an example of the podcast.


http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/

The podomatic website could be used for recording German and then using it in the classroom.

I have accessed the Podomatic and have had a look at Classic poetry aloud , since I am studying to be an English teacher, this poetry podcast is brilliant and there are many poems by many different poets which are currently being studied at high schools.

The only downfall is that if the podcast is quite popular and highly used, the donations will have to be made for the podcast to be accessed for example on the i Tunes, if the podcast is accessed online, there is no problem. I have embedded the 'Anthem for doomed youth' by Alfred Owen, which i remember i had to do on my practical as one of the war poems.

Digital videos:

According to a research study by Kearney & Shuck (2006), digital video has a range of common usages in schools, in particular for communication, observation and analysis, and reflection. As a communication tool, digital video facilitates students' communication of messages, ideas or information. Digital video is also used as an observation and analysis tool, enhancing students' observations of phenomena, experiments or performances. Finally, it is used as a reflection tool to support student reflections on their own learning.
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Outcomes of student video production include affective, meta cognitive, higher order thinking, communication and presentation, literacy, organisational and teamwork and movie making skill development.

Whilst digital video is a sound support of student capacity, and outcomes described (taken from Kearney and Shuck), caution is urged in ensuring that conceptual development related to curriculum outcomes is maintained as a core focus.

Digital video can be created using digital video cameras, however can also be made using still photographs, audio overlay, and/or the inclusion of video.


Common tools for the simple creation of digital video include Windows MovieMaker (on all Windows PCs) and iMovie (on all Apples), both included with the operating systems commonly installed on computers. Making movies is accessible to all, and even early childhood students are capable of combining their voice recordings and images into a movie.