Week5

· Photo Story/Movie Maker · Audacity · Survey Monkey · Screencast-o-Matic
 * SUMMARY OF WEEK 5 TOOLS:**

There was much more activity this week so this is quite a long summary. And it includes comments made in our Moodle forum, and on the Wallwisher site at [] Here it is embedded below (Note we couldn't work out how to embed the wall in Moodle)

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My Photo Story: [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMZ4cM0uI8]about Shenyang in China. The software is pretty easy to use - so am quite happy about its functionality!!! Planning to use it mainly for motivation and promotional purposes - taking photos of our trainees along their learningj ourney from the first session until the certificate ceremony. It will also serve as a "photostory" testimonial to attract new clients. “a very impressive first attempt” //(Michael)// Your voice was nice and clear and let me say I think you have a good 'radio' voice. Also the images where good quality images.” Making short movies would be entertaining & gain the students attention when required. Also we do public & Class presentations highlighting the trade to prospective apprentices, this format would greatly benefit these deliveries ( a picture tells a thousand words ). //Stephan// said: “The only thing I'd like to suggest is make sure you choose creative commons images (unless there are your own) and reference each image where you got it from. This can save you a lot of copyright hassles.” BTW – Michael loved this. Andrew – as Stephan said – put it on YT so we have a permanent record! I have been using Photostory in our literacy programs..Students love it - gives them an opportunity to work on a number of computing and literacy skills. We have a starboard in the classroom and the students get a buzz when viewing their film on the 'big screen'. Have not used it has a teaching tool however after reading some of the posts in the forum and viewing the sample videos created am encouraged to create some simple step by step tasks for beginner students in IT. Sue added on Wallwisher: Photostory - use it in Literacy classes great for all levels and students can personalise their story telling with own photos. Easier to use than Movie maker I have been using photostory and moviemaker to assesss tudents with poor literacy. I also use the ipod to record assessment and tidy the interviews up in audacity. it has proven to be a success as it takes away the fear of assessment and retains the students in courses. This week I chose Photo Story to explore. I found it very easy to use and good for putting short tutorials together, especially when delivering practical skills such as computing. The only disadvantage I found was that the graphics were not too goodwhen showing your video in full screen. ...Although it took a bit of time I am sure I could do it in half the time next time. The hard part is the planning and getting your steps to be short, clear and simple.
 * Photo Story/Movie Maker**
 * //Denitza://**
 * //John//** shared a Photo Story on Advanced ForkliftTraining. //Stephan// offered this feedback: “..... a few more different shots of the forklift in different positions and some text (text that supports the slide and points out thekey importance of that image) might be some good additional pointers I would like to add. By the end of the Photostory the forklift should have completed a figure eight as you were explaining on the video.
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 * //Sue://**
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 * //Karen://**

Audacity
John kick started this week’s discussion with a sample of a ppt that includes audio recorded in Audcacity, but there was almost no reference to this tool after that!

//Janine://
I am surprised how easy it was to create a survey and how many options there were, once I started it was so easy I had to keep going andI couldn’t think of a survey so I did one on the course. [] Please have a look at my very basic and very pretend survey [] I found survey monkey so easy to get started on and I willbe using this tool to capture info from the students in the future. I am quiteexcited that I have actually had a go and made a survey. For your last question I would have liked to have made this comment in your survey so perhaps a final box for 'Any further comments or questions" could be useful.”
 * //Michael//** wrote:“Will be interested to read the results. Hope you get lots of responses that you can share with us.” (Still waiting J ....)
 * //Cheryl://**
 * //Jenny’s//** first effort is at []
 * //Vivian//** suggested a few tips to improve surveys: “I would recommend asking a colleague to test out your survey or you try it yourself before you distribute. That way you can iron out the glitches.....Add an option for your movies.. Haven't seen it, and/or to include a response that allows for 'other' and a comment (hmm the latter wouldn't be possible in the multiple choice)

**Kathyrn:** I like the idea of having my students complete quiz's etc online to engage them, thus decided to create a 'surveymonkey' quiz on Microsoft Word. I've still got to learn the finer points, but had fun doing it. []


 * //Michael//** thought“Interesting idea to use a survey tool to create an assessment task. Begs thequestion: - what are the advantages of using a survey tool to create a quizagainst using Moodle quiz tool for example?”

I use Survey Monkey to get feedback from students each semester.
 * //Karen://**

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What a great tool, so easy to use and much more efficient than creating my video in Photostory. Loved this. //**Deborah** in Wallwisher:// The English language Centre uses Survey Monkey for orientation, midcourse and end of course evaluation - captures data for AQTF compliance. Love wall wisher too! Vivian: "Has anyone tried Screenr already and if so is there any advantage over YouTube? I've just tried it - recorded a mini tuturial for my trainees on how to use DropBox - however, it's linked toTwitter and goes straight into your Twitter account (= public access)." I haven't yet tried Screenr but the demo by Stephan in our live chat and the demo on Screenr's home page shows that you can also embed the code from your Screenr creation and put into Youtube. So Youtube is a place you can store and share your video. Screenr is a way to capture video.
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**Other**
Early in the week John wrote about how he uses a 93 slide PPT for a day’s training in the workplace. This generated quite a bit of discussion about whether or not this was an effective way to conduct training...... //John// also had a few problems getting some Flickr images to appear after he had posted them. Vivian found the relevant info that explained why this was happening. From Flickr:” If your account is new, first you need to upload at least 5 public photos. After that minimum has been reached, then it shouldn't take more than a few days until your photos appear in searches, groups, etc. To make sure your photos show in searches, remember to add accurate tags and descriptions.”
 * Flickr**

Finally, Stephan challenged everyone to consider the implications of using web 2.0 and other web spaces to store course work: In the last 4 1/2 weeks we have been looking at different free tools. We were looking from the angle, how we can use those 23 tools in Education in addition to a learning management system (LMS) such as Moodle and we all saw one or another use(s) for it. Let me put the following to you. Have you ever thought about using those tools such as wikis, blogs, YouTube, Slideshare,dropbox, Flickr and so on and having your own work and students work on these sites and then the unexpected happens. Sorry to be the devil's advocate here and/or throwing a spanner into the works, but I think we should spend a minute or two to think about this real possibility and come up with some possible solutions. You had work on the site that was assessing the student(s), proof that a student was competent or evidence for an RPL process you just based your decision on etc. Few years down the track the auditor is coming along and wants to see students x,y and z's work. Some of the work the auditor wants to see is work that has been created on those sites mentioned above. So, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
 * company went down, website doesn't exist anymore
 * information lost, technical hiccup, gone
 * What now?
 * Are there any backups available?
 * Are there any solutions to this?
 * What could those solutions look like?
 * Should we use those tools then?
 * Should we just stay in our LMS and don't explore or use tools beyond the LMS's borders?