Video+-+Dr.+Spires+and+Dr.+Young

= = =New Literacies, Student-Driven Inquiry, and the YouTube Aesthetic=

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait til the first dawning opens gradually, little by little, into a full and clear light." Isaac Newton

I. Getting started: Visualize, video, view! (20 minutes)

 * Engaging the YouTube generation: Flipping Out!
 * Making connections to literary and expository content.

II. Cinema Veriteen: Student-content and the YouTube aesthetic (30 minutes)

 * Inquiry: Making it challenging, creative, and personal.
 * The YouTube aesthetic:
 * Low budget, low-fi, do-it-yourself.
 * 57% of online teens say that they watch videos on video sharing sites such as YouTube (www.pewinternet.org).
 * Creative synthesis--A 21st century skill.
 * Assessing student-generated videos.
 * Complexities related to student generated videos.
 * Are complex thinking and the YouTube aesthetic mutually exclusive?

Free Resources for Creating Multimedia
> Vocaroo - @http://vocaroo.com/- For Audio Creation > Voice Thread - @http://voicethread.com/- For photo and voice mashups > Animoto for a Quick/Easy Video - [] > Voki for Animation - [|http://www.voki.com/ >] > [|Xtranormal]: Free animation tool.

III. Digital Video Sound Bite and Commercial Narrative Remix: Leveraging DV for Narrative Multimodal Composition (50 minutes)
Emerging technologies, like digital video (DV), provide students and educators with an opportunity to use media to create, produce, manipulate, and share evolving conceptions of text and multimedia products. As such, DV is a particularly dynamic technology with compelling implications for today's classroom. While older forms of video have been used to varying degrees in education, DV can play an important role in the 1:1 classroom as a new media form and a new tool for multimedia composition.

In addition, integrating visual images with written text, as done in most digital stories and multimodal compositions, enhances and accelerates comprehension. Meaning here is not necessarily additive, but more layered, interactive, and complex. As such, text and pictures, when paired together, often convey more meaning when juxtaposed. This effect is further intensified with digital video, where motion, design, and interactivity can easily be manipulated by the user and added to the mix.


 * Content connection: //Narrative.//**

Judith Wells Lindfors writes, //“I believe that **inquiry** is universal, a part of what it is to be human. Over the past decade a similar suggestion has been proposed for **narrative**. The presence of narrative across cultures suggests that to be human is to create and respond to story. Barbara Hardy (1977) calls narrative ‘a primary act of mind’ (p. 12), a fundamental way we understand and construct our experience in the world. However, within this universal presence of narrative, there is wonderful cultural **variation in the sorts of stories told and in the manner and contexts of their telling.** And within these cultural norms, the individual creates and tells and responds to story. And so the suggestion is that narrative is at once a universal and cultural and an individual phenomenon.”//

DV maximizes this potential for variation in the stories we tell and the manner and contexts of their telling.

Framework for Using DV in the Classroom: //Watch, Analyze,// and //Create.//

Two examples of **Creating DV** (DIY / Flip cam aesthetic):


 * ==DV Sound Bite==

Twain refers to a sound bite as "a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense." The digital video sound bite, then, provides us with a dynamic way to explore and portray theme and thematic content. It allows us to leverage DV for multimodal composition in simple but compelling ways.

1) Choose theme & complete initial freewrite; 2) Collaborate in small group to craft group definition; 3) Based on initial group definition, draft sound bite, storyboard, and film!; 4) Read variety of texts related to theme and engage in some inquiry; 5) Revise definition and sound bite based on informed reading and research; 6) Create new soundbite DV!; 7) Share DV’s and reflect on theme, process, and product! 8) Compare DV versions and reflect on the evolution of their understanding of the theme.
 * Process:**


 * Examples:**

[] || **Initial Thoughts on 21st Century Literacies**
 * [[image:leadinginnovation09/wisdom3.jpg link="http://wisdombook.org"]] || media type="custom" key="24668540" || media type="custom" key="24668588" ||
 * **Andrew Zuckerman's //Wisdom//** (book trailer)
 * DV Sound Bite** (Collected) || **21st Century Literacies DV Sound Bite**
 * Follow up** (Single Group) ||


 * ==Commercial Narrative Remix==

Punya Mishra speaks of the importance of "repurposing" media and technology as a part of the new literacies focus. The commercial narrative remix provides a dynamic way to explore, generate, and manipulate narrative.

- Content connections: //media literacy, online reading comprehension,// and //storytelling.//

//**Option 1:** Critical response, reaction, transformation of commercial message://


 * media type="youtube" key="e50YBu14j3U" height="364" width="445" || media type="youtube" key="_uozG9td6AE" height="364" width="445" ||
 * **Kaplan U. Original** || **Kaplan U. Remix** ||

//**Option 2:** Creating a new narrative out of the existing audiovisual components of the commercial message://


 * media type="custom" key="24668470" || media type="custom" key="24668476" ||
 * **Worldwide Coverage Original** || **Worldwide Coverage Remix** ||


 * Remix Practice:** If you would like to practice remixing the "Worldwide Coverage" clip, choose the appropriate option to download a copy of the video clip:

- Click [|here] for Windows version.

- Click [|here] for Mac version.

Please let me know (share it:) if you create your own remix! Thanks -- carl_young@ncsu.edu.

=Additional Resources=


 * ====//**Copyright and Fair Use Resources**//====

- [|Copyright and Fair Use SlideShare] - Spiro Bolos, New Trier High School
- [|A Fair(y) Use Tale:] A Short Film on Copyright and Fair Use (an example of a mashup)

- [|CC Mixter] (free use music)
-- WBGH http://www.wgbh.org/learn/index.cfm


 * //**Video Editing Resources:**//


 * ====**//Related Websites//**====


 * ====**//Hiller's Presentation//**====

Cinema Veriteen Power Point [[file:NC1to1.09.ppt]]
[|NC Standard Course of Study]

====Bull, G., & Bell, L. (Eds.). (In press). //Teaching with digital video.// Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Teacher Education (ISTE). [Note: Book will feature chapters focusing on each of the content areas and more.]==== ====Spires, H., Hervey, L., & Watson, T. (2009, April). //.// Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.====
 * ====**//Related Texts//**====