Journal # 3

Bree Colwell
Journal # 3
This article was published by L&L and written by Glenn Bull entitled “Video in the age of participation”. I had no idea how many different resources there are available to teachers on the internet. Through various websites, the weather and climate are just a click away. For example, National Geographic’s web cam you can see Pete’s Pond, a wild Africa site. It is amazing how you can “see” what is going on in other countries. Over nine thousand workshops have been given to over two hundred thousand teachers about DEN (Discovery Educators Network). DEN provides teachers and students with capability to edit and remix licensed unitedstreaming content. About seventy percent of schools in U.S. subscribe to unitedstreaming services. It is up to the teachers to link resources to learning outcomes.

1) How could I use the National Geographic web cam in my classroom?
I would have my students log on to the web came once a day at the same time to see what the animals/people in other countries are doing. I would have them track what they see and have them write a summary of any patterns or non patterns that they observed.

2) How could students incorporate web cams into their everyday life?
For those students who are surfers, they can check out the waves before heading out to the beach. They could also communicate with distant relatives on a regular basis.