Category: Module 2- Presentation Tools: Spaces, Places and Platforms for Learning

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ETEC 565- Learning Technologies Selection: Design and Application Module 2- Presentation Tools: Spaces, Places and Platforms for Learning

Diabetes DVD- determining the best process

Diabetes DVD- determining the best process…..
As a fellow educator I think Anju is a marvel. Working in a senior’s home and a community center makes it evident that she cares about the human condition. I am flattered that she has come to me for advice. I think her idea to create a take-away DVD resource is fantastic! Multi-media educational tools are excellent for the classroom so why not for ESOL adult education?
  • WHO: A local dietician wishes to reach a female, middle-aged Asian immigrant population who are experiencing a late onset diabetes epidemic.
  • WHAT: A resource that will educate this group about proper healthy eating habits as a preventative measure for this illness and as an information source for how to manage it.
  • WHERE: Community Center in Port Alberni
  • WHEN: No time like the present.
  • HOW: She will likely need 3 weeks assuming ~10 hours a week.
    • 1st- She can use her existing resources: laptop (assuming it has a DVD burner) which she will use to edit the DVD and burn it; and the new video recorder (to record segments of her workshop). She will also need to locate 2-3 DVD-Rs (she may bungle one or two up while she learns!) and a collection of digital images to use in the DVD. She should allot herself 3 hours to play with her video camera and learn how to use iDVD (if Mac) or Moviemaker. She will need to learn how to record, import, edit and save.
    • 2nd- She will need to script her DVD plan. She needs to consider what she wants to include in terms of video segments, images, audio, length of DVD and ways to keep it ‘ESOL’ friendly. This will take her ~10 hours.
    • 3rd- She needs to prepare the materials she requires for her video segment (flip chart, food samples/portion sizes, food pyramid poster, WOW demos- like how many teaspoons of sugar are in 2L of coke, people to interview-ie. Guest from Diabetes Association and anything else she may require. Also, she will likely need to enlist helpto film the segments of her workshop she would like to be in the DVD. This will take ~3 hours.
    • 4th- Putting it together will take ~12 hours. She needs to input everything into the DVD software program that she is using, add subtitles if she wishes, transitions/effects, title, digital images and video clips. She may also wish to add a ‘soundtrack’. Of utmost importance is the volume. Her voice needs to be LOUD and CLEAR. These ladies can understand MOST spoken English so she will need to remember to annunciate perfectly and speak loudly. She will then need to burn the DVD, check it and make copies.
    • 5th-Share it! ~2hours. Now she gets to reap the rewards of her hard work. She can send the DVD home with clients who fit the at-risk profile and seek feedback from them.
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ETEC 565- Learning Technologies Selection: Design and Application Module 2- Presentation Tools: Spaces, Places and Platforms for Learning

Pro-D re: Anti-Bullying

Problem: Lenora’s web access is dial-up only. It can take a really long time to upload and download files. Plus she’s never created a web site before and doesn’t know anything about where one puts a website. Just because the creator of the website has dial-up doesn’t mean the users will be on dial-up access, so a website is a viable option. That being said, Lenora has a few options which I will list….

Upon reflection… after reading the posts of my classmates and seeing such a variety of options I still think that this approach would be highly effective.

Options

  • F2F- F2F is a viable option for Lenora for a number of reasons: it will enable her to integrate technology at her level- thereby increasing her confidence; it eliminates the issue of dial-up; it caters to the oral traditions of the local cultures; it enables everyone to be in the same place at the same time-it’s inclusive (doesn’t isolate technophobes); and it could be followed up with one of the preceding options (she could even do a quick ‘how to’ tutorial for this follow up). Timeframe: 1 week- It would take her about a week to prepare a Powerpoint presentation, invite members and prepare venue.
  • Website A website is a good option as well because: it would build up Lenora’s skills; if she created a simple, text-based website anyone could access it and it is easy to use. Timeframe: 3 weeks- Assuming she uses a simple web-page authoring program like Word she would be looking at a week to incorporate all of her material/resources and perhaps another week or 2 to get it online looking neat and tidy.
  • Wiki/Blog This is an ideal method to encourage knowledge-building which would be easy for Lenora to learn how to implement. Lenora could begin by creating a simple Pro-D course which could be the basis of the discussion. It would also be a good place to share resources and links. Timeframe: 3 weeks- 1 week to learn about Wikis/Blogs and select which one to use, 1 week to prepare her resources and 1 week to get it up and running.
  • Piggyback on www.cradleboard.org Why reinvent the wheel? As so many of you have already indicated, Lenora and her colleagues are already using this as a means of communication so why not tap into that? She could begin a Discussion Thread all about anti-bullying within the existing interface. Timeframe: 1 week- Lenora would not need much more time than this to set up a Discussion board for the anti-bullying topic.
  • Yahoo Groups> An oldie but a goodie. Simple to use/implement and is a good option due to the dial-up only access since it does not use much bandwidth. Timeframe: 1 week- This gives her ample time to prepare the materials she wishes to present and post it into her group site.
  • DVD A great idea for Lenora! She can learn how to author a DVD and send it to all of her colleagues with an invitation to join her at one of the above…. Timeframe: 4 weeks- Lenora would need to do some research/seek help/training to help her create the DVD- this could take 1 or 2 weeks. Then she would need time to create the DVD- 1 week and then 1 week to communicate with the others.

Based on the above, I feel that ideally Lenora would have a F2F session and follow it up with an invitation to join her Discussion Board on the www.cradelboard.org site (she could model how to use this site for those who are new to it at the F2F session) which could then link to the wiki that she creates. Furthermore, Lenora is lucky because it sounds like District 83 is very pro-technology. She may be surprised to find out how many people around her –physically and electronically- can help her see her project to fruition.

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