Strengthen the Link with Blended Videos

Gabe Mydland, EdD LPC Dakota State University

What is a Blended Video?

Why? Too many students today

Using PS3 helps to shift

Important Opportunity

• To teach about copyright, fair use, attribution, and proper citation. • Encourage Media Literacy or nudge, urge, and/or cajole consumers to become creators of information.

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CONCEPT MAPS: SHOWING RELATIONSHIPS

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Concept Maps: Showing Relationships

Link concepts (nodes) with lines to represent relationships (propositions )

Concept Maps: Window into Student Minds

Replicate how information is organized and represented in memory

Concept Maps

Concept Map

• Transform a student into an active learner • Encourages students to become self-directed learners • Greater confidence in the comprehension of new material, and • Shrink the gap between theory and practice

Concept Maps

• Develop skills in the areas of – Critical thinking, – Organization of information, – Understanding of complex relationship, and – Integration of theoretical knowledge

Concept Maps

• Encourage students to – Extract and focus on important ideas, – Think about how these concepts are related, and – Organize such information into an “integrated structure.”

Concept Map Sites/Software

FREE!

• Bubbl.us

– www.bubbl.us

• C-map – http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html

• Mind 42 – http://www.mind42.com/ 4/27/2020 13

WEB VIDEO CONTENT: WHERE TO FIND STUDENTS

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Zamzar

• Zamzar is a free on-line utility that allows you to capture video content or convert it into a format your prefer Videos can later be edited in Windows Movie Maker

Step 1: Find Your Web Video

• Enter the URL address – (Or find the file on your computer if you have already downloaded it!)

Step 2: Decide which format you prefer

• Several from which choose!

Step 3: Recommended formats

• ‘wmv’ is used in Windows Media Player • ‘avi’ if you are planning to make a DVD • ‘mp4’ and ‘mov’ for Apple computers

Step 3: Enter e-mail address to where download link will be sent

• Zamzar converts the files on its site and send you a link to download the converted file to your e-mail address

Step 4: Select ‘Convert’ Tab

Check progress bar

Zamzar e-mail arrives when conversion completed

Select download link to save to your computer

STUDENT VIDEO CONTENT: LET’S GET DIGITAL

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Student Created Content

Students encouraged to create and/or find their own examples

BLENDED VIDEO: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER WITH WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

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What is WMM?

• Installed on Windows XP and Vista computers • WMM can edit video content from the web • Still pictures, movie clips, sounds, music and narration can be added to WMM • Create movies that can be viewed on other computers, uploaded to Internet or create a DVD

Find WMM

• Select (>) Start > Run and enter “moviemk” to open program

Select ‘Tasks’

This opens the ‘Movie Tasks’ menu-a sequential guide for how to use WMM.

‘Movie Tasks’ Menu

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Collections View – Items to be imported listed here Preview Screen Timeline/ Storyboard imported items dragged here in the order they are to be shown

Other areas in WMM

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WMM ‘How to’ Guides

• Russell, W. (2010).

How to use Windows Movie Maker: Beginner’s guide to Windows Movie Maker.

Retrieved April 3, 2010, from : http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/moviemaker/a /mov_mak_beg.htm

• Jonjonbass (Producer). (2006, November)

Movie maker video editing tutorial.

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