Journal #3

"Video in the Age of Participation" by Glen Bull

Technology is improving everyday. In this article, Bull states that “digital video is the next frontier in the technology world”. Many teachers have used films as part of their curriculum in class to help educate their students. With technology progressing, digital videos and companies such as The Discovery Education unitedstreaming Web site, teachers can now have short video clips that are aimed toward a certain part of their curriculum, grade level, and state standards. Bull also mentions that one company, Discovery Educator’s Network (DEN), is conducting an experiment where students and teachers can edit and remix licensed unitedstreaming content and repost it on the DEN site. This provides more knowledge to teachers on how to unite certain topics to their curriculum. With schools teaching mainly through text books and students going home to digital videos, there is a large potential for these two worlds to come together to further combine education and technology.

Questions...

1. How could I integrate digital video into a Physical Education class?
I think that it would be really be fun to use digital video to record activities that can be emailed to their parents or other family and friends. Also, video can be used to record progress throughout the year.

2. What would be the benefits of teaching with video, versus text books?
Movement concepts can be explained, however, I feel that students would benefit more if they could actually see the movement pattern. Video can also be beneficial when students are making corrections to their own movement patterns.