At the Digital Citizenship Summit held at the University of Saint Joseph October 4, 2015, Sarah Thomas, a teacher from the Washington DC area, did a session on tips for protecting oneself in age of online fraud and hacks. Several people have asked about her session, and I had the opportunity, with her permission, to video the presentation with the Periscope app. The video was uploaded to YouTube. Given the presentation was recorded as a livestream to keep the original intact, the video uploaded was not edited and is a record of the livestream done with an iPhone 6+.
Happy to share with others. The video is of nearly the whole session, so it is long, but you can fast forward and rewind as you like.
Note this post also appears on my blog, Integrating Technology and Literacy.
Any comments about Sarah's presentation are welcomed.
Showing posts with label "social media". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "social media". Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2016
Sunday, August 16, 2015
School Media in Schools
Presentation on Social Media in Schools
Many people have asked for information following the "Social Media in Schools" session that Marialice Curran and I lead for an educational event, EdCampCT.
Given, I used the Periscope app to livestream the session and archived the stream, I'm able to share out the video and texted in comments.
Beside face-to-face attendees, about 125 people watched and interacted virtually. We projected the live broadcast (using Apple TV) for in-person attendees who didn't have a chance to download the Periscope app.
Session Questions
Prior to the session, we tweeted discussion questions:
Replay of Periscope "Social Media in Schools"
To find the replay of the Periscope on Katch.em, click on image.
To find the replay of the Periscope on Katch.em, click on image.
Here are two screen captures from the broadcast showing a few text comments.
Additional Resources About Periscope
For the session, I shared in Google Document prior blog posts I wrote abut the app.
1) “Around the World in 24 Hours with Periscope” on Integrating Technology and Literacy Blog :http://buff.ly/1EqoF2F
2) “New Spin on Mystery Location Game with Periscope” on Integrating Technology & Literacy Blog http://buff.ly/1Poj0R6
“New Spin on Mystery Location Game with Periscope” on Technology & Learning Blog http://buff.ly/1UGoj1r
3) “Blabbing About Periscope: Community Building and More” on Integrating Technology & Literacy Blog http://buff.ly/1J7xyDI
4) “Move Over Twitter: Periscope Chats Have Arrived” on Integrating & Technology Blog http://buff.ly/1Pb8UCr
“How Periscope is Adding a New Twist to Twitter Chats” on Technology for Learning Blog http://buff.ly/1L9YaU9
For more information, contact me on Twitter at @JudyArzt, and try the Twitter hashtags #PeriscopeEDU and #PeriscopeTeachers.
Follow-up Discussion
We had a lively discussion of educational applications of the Periscope app and came up with these ideas.
- Virtual field trips
- Mystery Locations (comparable to Mystery Skypes or Mystery Google Hangouts)
- Bringing experts into the classroom such as National Park Rangers, NASA astronauts, weather reporters, and authors
- Immediate access to breaking news stories
- Cultural tours from places around the world
- Class cultural and geography exchanges
- Access to hearing world languages and reading comments texted in the languages
- Watching an artist or scientist at work
- Attending professional events (as we modeled by Periscoping our session)
- Doing Periscope Chats instead of Twitter chats (as some educators have already done)
With app being new (released in late March 2015 with updates since), educators will continue to seek ways to use it. For use in K-12 classrooms, we suggested broadcasters set the stream so only specified viewers can join.
Other Thoughts
What are your views on the use of social media in schools?
What social media do you find effective for school use?
Would you use an app like Periscope in school, and if so, how?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Student's Rant Questions Instructional Practice and Goes Viral
By now, you have heard about Jeff Bliss video that has gone viral. If not, here's the video.
I was wondering about posting the video on this blog that focuses on computers in the classroom but on second thought, it's relevant. The video speaks to the fact any student can pull out a cell phone and videotape what happens in the classroom or school building. The fact that the video has had well over one million views and has been discussed in all sorts of social media forums points to how classrooms quickly become public spaces. As one educator posted recently on Twitter:
Since the video went viral, it has had remixes, another phenomenon of living in a digital age, where anything online can be remixed to change the message. Here's one remix.
Now that you've seen both videos, what's your take on teaching in an age where what we do in the classroom can instantly become public knowledge?
Much of the discussion about the original video has focused on the teacher's teaching style and Bliss's reaction to it. What is your impression of the classroom scenario that we see in the original video?
To give you a sense of the discussions online about the original video, this past week, one of the one-hour chats on Twitter addressed the Bliss video. A moderator for the chat afterwards archived the tweets using a tool called Storify. Here's a link to the Storify, which starts with people introducing themselves, but if you scroll down and use the Click to See More options, you can follow the chat as it unfolded. Storify: #IAedchat--Jeff Bliss Video: What Have We Learned
And for more on the Bliss video see this article and the comments from Edutopia: "The Digital Live of Teens: Revolutionary "Bliss"?
I was wondering about posting the video on this blog that focuses on computers in the classroom but on second thought, it's relevant. The video speaks to the fact any student can pull out a cell phone and videotape what happens in the classroom or school building. The fact that the video has had well over one million views and has been discussed in all sorts of social media forums points to how classrooms quickly become public spaces. As one educator posted recently on Twitter:
Since the video went viral, it has had remixes, another phenomenon of living in a digital age, where anything online can be remixed to change the message. Here's one remix.
Now that you've seen both videos, what's your take on teaching in an age where what we do in the classroom can instantly become public knowledge?
Much of the discussion about the original video has focused on the teacher's teaching style and Bliss's reaction to it. What is your impression of the classroom scenario that we see in the original video?
To give you a sense of the discussions online about the original video, this past week, one of the one-hour chats on Twitter addressed the Bliss video. A moderator for the chat afterwards archived the tweets using a tool called Storify. Here's a link to the Storify, which starts with people introducing themselves, but if you scroll down and use the Click to See More options, you can follow the chat as it unfolded. Storify: #IAedchat--Jeff Bliss Video: What Have We Learned
And for more on the Bliss video see this article and the comments from Edutopia: "The Digital Live of Teens: Revolutionary "Bliss"?
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Teenagers Online Behavior: Get Over It
Danah Boyd, a 34 year-old, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, sees no point in limiting young people's access to what's online. She claims that teachers, parents, P.T.A.s, and school administrators need to defer to the social changes happening offline. Teens' online lives merely mirror what they do offline and their developmental stage.
Boyd states, in a Jan. 22, 2012 New York Times article, "Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes of Behavior": Children's ability to roam has basically been destroyed. Letting our children out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today."
Basically, Boyd argues we need to let kids explore online. She claims that online they find information that helps them cope with issues like bullying, depression, and suicide.
As for online sexual predators, Boyd reminds us that kids are more at risk offline. For in fact, most predators are ones the children know: "The vast majority of sex crimes against kids involve someone that the kid trusts, and it's overwhelming a family member." Perhaps, our energies need to be redirected there, and we need to allow children to find advice online from professional counselors--a point that Boyd makes in support of Internet access.
Boyd is a long-time scholar and researcher in the field of youth culture. She holds a degree in computer science from Brown, earned a master's from the Media Lab at M.I.T., and earned at Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, from the School of Information. Boyd can be followed on Twitter. @Zephoria. She also has host of scholarly papers available, where else, but online.
Check the New York Times article. Do you agree with Boyd that we should give teens full access to the Internet? Do you agree it is time to stop blocking sites, some of which may be helpful to teens today? What points in the article ring true? With which do you disagree?
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| Danah Boyd Image credit: Erik Jacobs for New York Times, 1-22-12 |
Basically, Boyd argues we need to let kids explore online. She claims that online they find information that helps them cope with issues like bullying, depression, and suicide.
As for online sexual predators, Boyd reminds us that kids are more at risk offline. For in fact, most predators are ones the children know: "The vast majority of sex crimes against kids involve someone that the kid trusts, and it's overwhelming a family member." Perhaps, our energies need to be redirected there, and we need to allow children to find advice online from professional counselors--a point that Boyd makes in support of Internet access.
Boyd is a long-time scholar and researcher in the field of youth culture. She holds a degree in computer science from Brown, earned a master's from the Media Lab at M.I.T., and earned at Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, from the School of Information. Boyd can be followed on Twitter. @Zephoria. She also has host of scholarly papers available, where else, but online.
Check the New York Times article. Do you agree with Boyd that we should give teens full access to the Internet? Do you agree it is time to stop blocking sites, some of which may be helpful to teens today? What points in the article ring true? With which do you disagree?
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