Friday, May 16, 2008

ClickView Home Digital Videos for Review 2

GEOGRAPHY (28)

A Child's Day: East Timor
An Introduction to France
Applying Environmental Science
Australia - An Ecological Profile
Changing Cities: Geography Junction
Changing Communities
China: Fun and Firecrackers - Eureka!
Earthquake Tsunami - Wave of Destruction
Global Connections
Global Tectonics: Competing Theories
Global Warming: You Can Make a Difference
Growing Up in Brazil
Latitude and Longitude - Where are we?
Location - Why things are where they are
Managing a Coastal Ecosystem
Mapping Australia: Introducing Mapping Concepts
Population and World Resources
Preparing for and Living with Natural Disasters
Refugees: Far from home (Junior Version)
Resource Systems in a Brazilian City
River Health - Caring for Our Waterways
River Health - Think Globally - Act Locally
Rural Urban Migration - Push and pull factors
Simply Living: Towards a Sustainable Future
Transport: Getting About
Urban Development
Urban Dynamics
Weather Forecasting

ECONOMICS (4)

Impacts of Globalisation
Market Research
The Global Economy: Globalisation
The Operation of an Economy

LANGUAGE (3)

Identity and Change: VEA ESL Guide 3
Identity and Feelings: VEA ESL Guide 1
Identity and Values: VEA ESL Guide 2

MEDIA (6)

Animation in Multimedia
Hot off the Press - Inside a Daily Newspaper
Making a Video
Making Photographs
Reporting The News - The Journalistic Process
The Language of Film & TV

ICT (14)

Birth of a Web-Site
Email Etiquette
Greengrocer.com.au: E-commerce in Action
Info Tech at Work: Big W
Inside Story: E-commerce in Business
Inside Story: Social & Ethical Issues in IT
Inside Story: Spam
Lifting the Lid: How Computers Work
Network Security
Networks
Roles & Responsibilities in IT
Securing the Web
The History of Computers
Website Design
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Embracing eLearning @ Strathallan AGG New Zeland


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On-line homework instantly accessible? Digital media available at the touch of a button? Lesson notes stored in .pdf files for instant access? Educational software to encapsulate all learning styles? Wireless access to over eight billion sources of information? Science fiction? No, that is the reality of the modern Strathallan learning environment. Strathallan has built a technological infrastructure that would be appreciated by many educational institutions throughout New Zealand. “Integrating technology into the curriculum is part of the mandate at Strathallan. Most educational technology experts agree that technology should be integrated, not as a separate subject or as a once-in-a-while project, but as a tool to promote and extend student learning on a daily basis. Strathallan’s approach using software like Clickview has made that integration a reality,” stated Matt Humber. Matt is the ICT Co-ordinator at Strathallan.

Part of the vision for Strathallan has been to include wireless Tablet PCs into the learning environment. The Tablet PC is equipped with a sensitive screen designed to interact with a stylus. Tablet PCs are fully-functional laptop PCs and more. Staff can use the stylus directly on the screen to generate notes and annotation. This is complimented with instant access to web information and multimedia. As the class notes are digital they can be placed directly into the schools on-line Blackboard Learning Management System for the students to download. This supports the revision process and helps those students who missed the work through absence. Clickview (referred to above), is a software package which has been in use at Strathallan for the last two years. Clickview combines two products; an innovative digital video delivery software package and a digital video library containing videos and teaching resources from leading content providers. These two aspects combine into a network centred video delivery platform which can be scaled to deliver video to hundreds o users at the same time across the network.

Clickview enables the students to complet self-paced learning in the Computer Lab and generates discussion and educational power in a classroom environment. Student can find themselves at one moment in the trenches in World War One, the next a par of a blood cell making its way around the circulation system, then ordering Tapas from a Spanish waiter, or even making use of satellite technology to discover an geographical location in the world. For all those learners who embrace ICT and the support available, the world as never before, really is their oyster.

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Monday, May 12, 2008

eLearning a Foundation for Future Learning


Scotch OakBurn College, Australia : eLearning a Foundation for Future Learning (pdf)


Part of the Article (page 14-16)

Chris Laycock introduced the terminology ‘e-learning’ to Scotch Oakburn College. But what does the word actually mean in the education system?

“E-learning is a generic term that simply indicates the application of computer technology in the education sphere,” said Chris.“A web forum is a good example. Web forum boards are used on the Internet by interest groups. I was reading one the other day about free-to-air digital television, where people talk about their set-top boxes, reception and the like. 

In an education sense, a teacher can use educational forums to discuss, for example, texts they are reading - literature circles. Junior School teacher, Ben Green, is presently investigating a communication, or a web forum, with a group of students in Malaysia. He will take a traditional Internet application and manage it in an educational context. 

Chris said that ‘communication and collaboration’ are probably the two most important features that the Internet offers at the moment. The product generated is content.
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“Ten years ago digital content would have been a CD because then CDs were the best way to store information. How many of us still have an encyclopedia on CD, collecting dust on a shelf?  Digital content is not on CDs, it is now on the web. DVDs came along and people moved towards this new medium. But now, you can store more information on a USB thumb drive, than you can on a DVD. We have invested in a lot of digital content, or licensing is probably a better word. ClickView is a good example,” said Chris. ClickView is a video delivery platform that combines innovative digital video delivery software and a digital video library containing videos and teaching resources from Australian content providers.

 “ClickView is delivered in pure broadcast quality video. For example, a recent episode of ‘Catalyst’ to do with the effects of nicotine on human health was broadcast, a teacher saw it, and asked for it to be uploaded. Our copyright licences covers the distribution and the viewing of that piece of video at anytime,” said Chris. The e-learning benefit of that is that you’re dealing with a contemporary information source. You have to realise that students of today are a media generation, we tend to glean most of our day to day information from broadcast content: radio, television or via web casting.” Chris Laycock said that technologies such as ClickView, combined with other earning technologies, provide students with a superior learning environment. 

The Internet is undoubtedly going to have the greatest impact on education over the next two decades. Young people today are ‘digital natives’. Most students since 1993, when the worldwide web started, have known nothing else. We cannot often forget the significance of that,” said Chris.  There has been lots of media coverage about Wikipedia, about the way it has evolved and the way it is edited.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

ClickView Home Digital Videos for Review

MATHEMATICS (26)



ENGLISH (33)


SCIENCE (42)

Biology (21)

Chemistry (19)

Physics (8)

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