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News Format Proliferation in Libraries By Norm Parry December 2002 EDO-IR-2002-08 - FYI from Jenny Fawbert Introduction: An Abundance of Choices Libraries are all about choice. That is why there is more than one book in a library, more than one point of view, genre, subject, age level, edition, and format. At the core of their work, librarians may have to choose among the tens of thousands of new works published every year. Making those kinds of choices under the constraint of limited finances is not new to librarians. What is unprecedented is the number and kinds of choices librarians must make in response to the greater number of formats demanded by their customers. A list of the available formats for a particular work might include hardcover, paperback, large print, foreign language edition, audiocassette tape, book on CD, eBook, videocassette, and DVD.
Webquest Suggestion This webquest was recently used very successfully with Yr 8 English here at St Pius X, King Tutankhamun Was it Murder? http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/wash/webquest/ NSW IT Integrators' Meeting I recently attended the NSW IT Integrators' Meeting at the Powerhouse Museum. My report from this meeting is reproduced here for your information. - Leonie NSW IT Integrators’ Meeting This meeting took place at the Powerhouse Museum looking at one component of the Riverview Yr 9 challenges, due to its strong computer focus using digital and audio editing.
Background Each year all of Yr 9 are taken off campus for a four weeks of activities. The form is split into 4 groups that undertake a different challenge each week. The four challenges are as follows: The Bush – bushwalking and outdoor adventure run by Southbound Adventure programs Life skills – Hospitality industry, surfing and Bronze Medallion Radio School - Learning about Radio broadcasting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School at Macquarie University City Experience – Lessons afloat, Rocks and Police and Justice Museum, and video and audio editing at the Powerhouse Museum.
It was last challenge that the Integrators Group was invited to observe. Students were sent into the city to conduct arranged interviews armed with digital cameras and digital videos. After they completed collecting their footage they brought it back to the Powerhouse Museum to download it onto computers, edit it and then incorporate their video mpegs, digital jpegs and audio mp3s that they had made into a Powerpoint presentation . They were instructed in the use of the relevant software by the Soundbyte studio in the Power Museum. This website also has a lot of resources and information for students in sound editing.
Digital Video and Audio Software The Soundbyte studio uses software from Sonic Foundry Acid Pro for audio and Vegas Video. Both these programs are very easy to use with a lot of drag and drop features but they also incorporate very powerful functions and are fully editable. Schools in the group are using various video editing software Adobe Premiere , Ulead Media Studio (because it is inexpensive) and Apple Imovie (because it comes free with Apple Mac) but most agreed that the Sonic software was the easiest to use. There is also an express version of Acid that is free to download.
The Soundbyte studio This studio can also be booked for school excursions at a cost of about $6 to $8 a head. The experience is enjoyable and informative for students at all levels. It fits into the curriculum not only in the obvious areas of art and design but also for English media studies by giving an awareness of how all the elements of a film come to together to form a message. This facility is so popular for school groups that it is often booked out for the whole year by the end of May. Contact details see me or Powerhouse Museum site. Shared Information Many schools are buying the entire collection of Classroom Video and loading it on a server with about 120 gigs storage. Teachers then call up the video on their laptops and display them by a Data projector or by a connection to the television. Seems that a lot of schools are going this way rather than to centralized Commander style systems.
This day was very inspiring, seeing students actively engaged in this student- centred learning. It was also interesting to compare notes with IT integrators from other schools and enlightening to realize that this group have very similar ideas to Teacher Librarians in their views about student-centred learning and learning in a real life situations.
Notes on Jamie McKenzie's recent visit by Gina Knox Jamie McKenzie *consider the issue of "powerpointlessness" *the technology needs to engage learners and challenge thinking *we need to know when to go "unplugged" *companies/businesses are now paying search engines for priority: need for close evaluation of internet sites *OUTLAW find out all you can about... *find the truth, the difficult truth: Leunig, move beyond trivial pursuit *see Sept 2000 FNO (Recent Issues) "Scoring Powerpoints" *ask "Essential Questions", important life questions, follow with subsidiary questions *"mentalsoftness" is a problem students suffer from: ie. impatience with analysis; a hunger for packaging and fascination for the show * "action learning" should be taking place, problem based learning *how do you convince management? see FNO First Thing First, Nov 2000
(Ch2-planning) what needs to be considered are issues of purpose (learning
rationale), opportunity costs (such as disruption, discomfort etc) and
evaluation (what works and what doesn't) *URL's for his Australian visit 2002 *Great idea-the creation of a Vertical File complete with digital pictures,
original clip art, scientific data etc all kept within a library controlled
server see FNO Oct 2000 *see FNO Jan 2002 this has a useful survey that aims to quantify the
issues associated with technology ie.Daill Practice Survey Jamie's Books Beyond Technology Planning Good Change with technology and Literacy (2001) Essential Questions |
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