Assess Learning Through Video or Animations



This animation was cited at the Brave New World blog, the actual blog where it resides is Box of Tricks. Both authors share excellent resources in utilizing Web 2.0 tools to promote learning. Please offer these authors your feedback!
How can tools such as this assist teachers in evaluating student learning?

Barcelona the Playground

Here is a brief summary of this great destination and it's people and culture. This is created with the online Web 2.0 Tool Animoto. I am not endorsing this product, rather, it is used here to demonstrate the ease with which one can upload images, and create a short video. There are other tools out there to explore.

If you had 30 seconds to define a place you visited recently, what images would you include? 

Let me know if you think about my video.

It has been awhile, but we are back!
It is time to continue the discussions about visual learning through Web 2.0 tools.

Splashr: Flickr SlideShows
Please view the Presentation Sample here. I would use these presentation tools to spark a discussion around communicating through photographs. Concepts such as  special relationships, emotions, expressions, or cultural awareness could be discussed.

How it is done
These photos were collected through a concept of tag searching. I first searched in the Slpashr Tool, "Sad Eyes." This yielded an amazing set of  photographs in quality and expressiveness. Splashr allows one to search Flickr shared photos, using specific tags to pull together a collection of pictures as a slide show. Each photo slide has the artist's link beside the slide to click back to within his/her Flickr photo collection as an attribute of their works. A Splashr slide show can then be embedded in blogs or Web Pages such as this. Is this a useful Visual Learning tool? (This is not an endorsement but rather an example of one of many free Web 2.0 tools to support learning).
My Presentation (Right Click-Opens in a New Window)

Motivational Message Towards Creative Thinking: The Human Side from Steve Jobs
Here is a motivational message from Steve Jobs, given at a college commencement. It provides a very interesting perspective on how we see life, and how that can impact our accomplishments. It offers a personal side of learning, and being creative, which is, from my perspective, at the crux of any type of literacy, including visual literacy. The Creative Thinking Skills for Life and Education , Creative Thinking in Education, by Craig Rusbult,
This Web Site is an excellent start in learning more about using creative thinking in our classrooms.
Available resources, such as this YouTube video, can also help spark our colleagues and students in thinking about their own lives. The very fact that this video and many others, (that are appropriate for teaching and learning), are available at anytime through YouTube to share truly supports what we want to teach our students. What an opportunity in learning! Job's message is well worth viewing.