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"Who? Me?"Here is my picture, but it is also a link to a video clip. Click on the picture to activate the clip.
Who am I:? Roosevelt University Professor, former Dean of the College of Education, former Chair of Secondary Education, Cluster Coordinator of Roosevelt's Cluster of the Gear Up Project, and currently serving as Interim Associate Dean for the College of Education. Research interests are Tech Integration in the classroom, teacher quality, use of video as documentation, and assessment of STUDENT SUCCESS. Click following to see full Curriculum Vita: Vita Experimental Center "Experiment One: Video Clips." Here is a clip of Denise Everhart at Hyde Park High giving an overview of a new concept - the Gear Up Advisory Council - comprised of students from the Gear Up Divisions. Gear Up Advisory Council MIDI's: A former student included a sound file in his homepage and sent the following for those who might want to do the same. I am including below his email message to me. If any other students want to add MIDIs, a good place to get them is Midi Database. The page has about 25,000 MIDI files from all genres of music and about 90% are free to download. The user can either download them on to a computer and then upload them into the file repository or he/she can just copy the URL of the MIDI file and paste it in using the following tag: (left pointing carat) embed src="URL of MIDI file" loop="false" (right pointing carat) This embeds the MIDI file to play when people get to the page and make it so it will not loop. Are you a novice when it comes to HTML? Here are some simple HTML tags with instructions for how to use them. HTMLTags If you like those, here are a few more HTML tips. These are handy for they show you how to move clip within text, for example. More HTML TIPS Do you have XP at home? If you do - you have Movie Maker on your machine - and you may not even know it. This allows you to make movies, as you might expect, but it also allows you to intersperse still photos and video clips together to make a presentation. Why Movie Maker? For one thing, it has the same functionality as a presentation tool that Power Point has by enabling the presentation of stills and video. While Power Point is more geared to stills and text, Movie Maker is more geared to video. It is not so difficulty to learn if you are patient with your self. The help screens are decent and sources exist on the Internet if you would like more instruction. I suggest that you start with a small project in which you have a couple of short video clips and a couple of still photos that you can use to "tell a story". Once you sequence the photos and clips on the Movie Maker timeline, you can add a title and credits, a music track (Get it off you favorite CD) or voice over, you can add from a large variety transitions between clips and stills, and you have yourself a movie. Once you are ready to save your "project", here is one tip. You can save your project in the normal fashion as a Project on your computer. This allows you to bring it back up for easy editing, but b>only on your computer. When you are ready to save the final product, then go to Finish Movie on the Movie Maker side menu bar and save it as finished file. Remember, these are big files. There are options in Movie Maker to save them as smaller files which will make sending and transport easier, but you loose some quality in the lower memory format. Have fun with this, and if you get a Movie you would like to share, send it to me. I think you will enjoy this, but your students will really surprise you with their creativity. Ever save a video clip to your computer? If not, take a look at these instructions. They were developed for students in my Technology Class to produce a video clip to include in their Home Page, using Movie Maker. It takes you through the steps to make the video clip using a camcorder. It then provides instructions for capturing that video clip onto your computer using Movie Maker. From Your Camera to Your Computer Using Movie Maker What's New and Interesting? 1) Wireless: Are we going wireless? The answer is yes. Do you know the areas where there is wireless access at Roosevelt University? A tip-off is students with laptops hanging about in unexpected places like the halls outside Gary Langer's office. Are there downsides to wireless? One is security. But in reality, little is really secret these days. What will wireless mean for schools and classrooms? Does going wireless take us further towards "paperless"? Will it be cheaper, will it be faster? Could a school trade the costs of paper and duplication for the computers that are needed for a paperless environment? Where is this taking us? 2) Kids learn this technology so fast! What will students know in technology when they come to school in three years? What is just over the horizon? It used to be pagers, now it's cell phones, what will we be using in 2009? More cell phones? Or something else, like a PDA that does almost everything? Voice recognition software is taken huge leaps forward. Will students be producing their assignments by talking into their phone that is connected to their computer that automatically sends the assignment to their teacher? Are such things possible? Are they reasonable? 3) What else is new and interesting? Know about a new gadget that could have educational applications? My class came up with some - a pen that records what notes you take and downloads them into your computer later that night. Another pen that sits in your pocket with a very small lens and takes 55 minutes of video. A digital jukebox that can store up to 3000 MP3 songs, PDA's that are a fully loaded computer. Connect them to an LCD projector and you do not need a computer. IPOD's are coming into their own with huge storage potential. Have you looked at the capability of a Blackberry? Do you know what Bluetooth technology means? Good luck getting it through airline security with all these devices. Another device was a portable lie detector, hand held, letting you now if the person (students?) talking to you was being truthful. Digital cameras and digital camcorders are now capable of doing both stills and video. As indicated earlier, XP has bundled Movie Maker with their software, and it rivals I-Movie on the MACS. Flash drives, jump drives, or thumb drives - take your pick, they are the same handy device to store large amounts of information and take it with you. This adds a drive filled with your information to any computer with USB access slot, which is all modern computers. Hmmmmm. Know of others? Send them to me and I will post them. 4) Check out this Power point on Task Stream. Sample Power Point 5) LV Homepage: Here is a terrific home page done by one of my past students. Portfolio 6) Have you heard of Inspriration and Kidspiration? They are both on the RU computers in the AUD 374 and Shaumburg 515 labs. Check this program out, for it is fun and very useful to teachers. It allows you to make diagrams of all kinds, to teach outlining in a painless manner, and adds a highly useful tool to your Technology Tool Kit for Teachers. If you would like to find out more about this software, of course there is information on the Internet. You probably can find a free trial copy for 30 days. 7) GEAR UP: Do you know about the GEAR UP project? This is a partnership between universities and schools in Chicago to assist inner city youth in awareness and opportunities for college. Roosevelt's program is called the Roosevelt Cluster,and there are a lot of interesting activities described and portrayed on the GEAR UP web page. Check it out at GEAR UP GULV Users in Woodlawn Who is using the Learning Village in their classroom? Please send me interesting uses and I will post them here for others to view and possibly use. I have been experimenting with Team Projects in my Tech class, and it works nicely for managing individual and group work, in addition to providing a way for groups to interact outside of the classroom. In addition, we are also experimenting with the Group Pages options on Blackboard, which performs similar functions. Both are excellent resources for use by students who work in groups and must communicate outside of class. The Learning Village Homepage designer is a snap to learn and use for a variety of things, not the least is communication with parents. Send me your ideas via email, or put them my guestbook. A link to the BLAST (Building Leadership and Successful Transition) webpage is next. This describes a summer 2002 program for incoming 9th graders to Hyde Park Academy.It's a BLAST Technology Class EDUC 385/485, Spring 2005, Technology in the Classroom students have joined in the use of Learning Village to create home pages for communicating with paretns. Once completed, the pages will be approved so others can view their good work. Students are also developing electronic portfolios using the another web-based tool named Task Stream. We will also have been experimenting with the inclusion of short video clips as part of web pages and portfolios. Interested in looking at Task Stream? It does more than just faciliate the design of portfolios and is a nice partner to Learning Village. You can sign on as a guest or get a free Guest Account for about 10 days. Go To Task Stream If you would like to see an example of one student's use of Task Stream for his portfolio, take a look at Steve Tow's Portfolio. Portfolio for Elementary Education at Roosevelt What is next? You may have guessed: Creative uses of Video. One new assignment has been added: The Learning Video. Students choose a topic, perhaps something difficulty to teach or learn, and they produce with a partner a 1 to 2 minute learning video. If you check out Steve Tow's Portfolio, you will see his learning video. He collaborated with a colleague with good results, particularly since these were first time experiments. Some students have expressed interest in putting clip art or pictures within text. For example, if I want such a piece to appear here:  I can also put such an image in another position, like ............................here:  This can be done very easily by using some html code. If you would like a little explanation of how to use this code, Moving Clip Art If you click on the HTML tips above, your will see this code and a few other html codes that do more. Web QuestsDo you know what a web quest is? It is like a lesson plan for technology supported problem based learning for small or large groups. I am beginning to compile a bank of exemplary web quests for elementary and secondary classes. If you come across a really interesting, well designed, or exemplary webquests that you think should be part of our bank, email it to me or its source and I will include it. If you would like to see what a web quest is, you can go to an Internet Site devoted to web quests. Bernie DodgeThe number of people using Task Stream is increasing, and students in the EDUC 385-485 class this spring are beginning to experiment with the use of this Web Based Tool. Sarah Parker tried putting her Web Quest onto Task Stream and found Task Stream to be quite a good host for web quests. It is in Spanish, but even if you do know much Spanish, you get the idea. Take a look. you might want to try this as well. Web Quest on Task Stream: Galapagos My favorite sites |