Event Title
Lessons Learned in Student Generated You Tubes: Feedback from Digital Natives to Digital Immigrants
Location
Regnier Center 155
Start Date
3-8-2012 8:30 AM
Description
The Web has revolutionized how we work, learn and play. It has empowered adult learners with a range of tools to independently learn and has opened up endless opportunities for instructors in formal programs. It has redefined what it means to be literate. The Web has become a culturally transformative medium. (Brown, 2002). YouTube has become a medium that supports a participatory culture of the digital native, from edutainment, to educational sites. (Cllinton, Purushotma, Robison, and Weigel. 2006) A review of research yields abundant literature on instructor generated videos on YouTube, and student generated digital video story telling projects. Little research is currently available on student generated YouTubes created as part of the learning process. This presentation will show examples of the range of student created YouTube videos to satisfy a major requirement of an online business communication course at Fort Hays State University. Lessons learned will be shared as a result of student course input. What problems did students encounter as their team attempted to create the video report out on their research project? What did they want us to stop doing? Continue doing? Start doing? What did they learn as a result of this project? While this activity is at a university level, the lessons learned also apply to K-12.
Lessons Learned in Student Generated You Tubes: Feedback from Digital Natives to Digital Immigrants
Regnier Center 155
The Web has revolutionized how we work, learn and play. It has empowered adult learners with a range of tools to independently learn and has opened up endless opportunities for instructors in formal programs. It has redefined what it means to be literate. The Web has become a culturally transformative medium. (Brown, 2002). YouTube has become a medium that supports a participatory culture of the digital native, from edutainment, to educational sites. (Cllinton, Purushotma, Robison, and Weigel. 2006) A review of research yields abundant literature on instructor generated videos on YouTube, and student generated digital video story telling projects. Little research is currently available on student generated YouTubes created as part of the learning process. This presentation will show examples of the range of student created YouTube videos to satisfy a major requirement of an online business communication course at Fort Hays State University. Lessons learned will be shared as a result of student course input. What problems did students encounter as their team attempted to create the video report out on their research project? What did they want us to stop doing? Continue doing? Start doing? What did they learn as a result of this project? While this activity is at a university level, the lessons learned also apply to K-12.