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First attempt at CamStudio and YouTube

First attempt at CamStudio and YouTube

This is my first attempt at CamStudio and YouTube. I will have a go at putting voice to them soon. I would like to do some videos for our new learners that come in....so instead of having lots of reading to do they could watch the videos instead....i find we sometime loose newies because there is too much reading at the start and not enough computer stuff. Alot of our students haven't been in a learning environment for a long time, so reading a lot of stuff can become very frustrating for them. Having short videos on... How to access our files....How to save files.....etc would be great to have on the desktop of our computers for the students to access when they need to see them. These would be great for the visual learners instead of having to read the information they could see whenever they want.

Playing with CamStudio and YouTube

Flexible Teaching to Students from Vanuatu

For the last 7 weeks i have had to opportunity to teach 5 men from Vanuatu. Henry, Tony, Andrew, Josiah, and Jonathan. Teaching these students has been very different for me as i have had to teach them in a classroom situation rather than the way we do here at the Community Learning Centre by self paced learning with books. These students were great to teach, being giant sponges soaking up all the technology that I could throw at them and more. 4 of them had never sat infront of a computer so it was a huge learning curve for them. Week by week i could see their confidence grow and their welliness to learn was so exciting to see and be apart of. Having only a limited time to teach them new skills, i focused on teaching them how to email and use the internet so that when they are away from the families they can keep intouch. It was great to show them how to txt chat with MSN and talk to each other, the skills that i now take for granted and do everyday to keep in contact with the other supervisors within Central Otago. These men will be back to work here in October so i'm looking forward to teaching them lots more about technology.

Comment to Emma's Blog

Hi Emma
By reading your blog i can't help thinking that the three of us (Jaquie, you and me) feel that same way about this course. Maybe this is because we all work at the Community Learning Centres and we use a lot of different technology thoughout the day within our courses that we deliver. It also sounds like we all learn very similar and are aware of the different learning styles that we encounter every day. I feel we need to have more visual projects for some students as they do struggle with firstly reading though the books and trying to make sense of this new technology that they have never even tried before. I think it would be easier for these students to have a video to watch first.

Comments to Jacquie

Ditto Jacquie……I feel exactly the same as you and i too learn by hands on. I too felt like a fish out of water and now will have a renewed respect for our new students that come to our classes. I hope to use Camstudio for our new students to show them how to open documents from our files and save their documents to the right folders etc. These could be used instead of the students just reading how to do this out of our Back 2 Basics books or they could be used a well as the book for students that like to visually see what they should be doing. These videos could be saved on the desktop so students could access them anytime to reasure or remind them what steps to take. We often find that students come in and find it hard to sit down and go though the steps of the book, this can be frustrating to them if they don’t like reading instructions so to have videos that they can watch will be great.
Once i have done these i will post to my blog so you can have a look.