Our Grade 9’s are participating in the Flat Classroom Project and they need your help!
Part of their final, individual video assignment includes having part of their video outsourced.
This is an amazing project, and our students have learned a lot… but this has come with some rather large challenges, most of which arise from one big issue: We are in China, behind the Great Filter Wall. This is challenging enough, but with certain global ‘social uprisings’ recently, the wall has been fortified… and since we are a school that struggles with bandwidth issues, we have felt really disconnected. For example, today my email would not come to my desktop mail client, and I could not get my mail online, even in the basic (HTML) mode it took too long to load.
Also, it’s hard to be global collaborators when one of the key social spaces to connect is blocked.
Now, back to our request for help!
Please create an outsourced video and share it with us.
Below are the requests, in our students’ own words, (all under 30 seconds of video).
If you can fulfill one of these requests, please comment here stating:
A) Which request can you help out with?
B) What is your name, and what country are you from? (If you get a student to do this, let us know their age too!)
Once the video is ready, contact me with your email address and I’ll invite you to a shared Dropbox, since downloading other ways causes issues for us, (Youtube, Blip, Vimeo and other video sites are all blocked, and after turning on my VPN to get around the GFW, my download speed is usually around 6-14kbs).
Flat Classroom Project:
Help a student by creating & sharing one of these outsourced videos:
GROUP 1 (Video requests not met)
1) Requester Name: IanC
Team: 2A – “How the World Wide Web has Changed the World”
Request: 20~25 seconds of a video that includes someone
1. playing starcraft, 2. watching TV shows, 3. twittering, 4. home
shopping, 5. reading news articles on the Internet. (online) The
camera should be focused on the computer screen and make sure you are
doing all the things I requested in right order please. (It should be
one whole video, not separated ones.)
2) Requester Name: Andy L
Team: 11F Wireless Connectivity
Request: I need 5 second each video clips which are someone chatting
with his/her friends, shopping, reading news, and checking Email on a
cell phone.
I also need 5 second each video clips which a person sitting in front
of a desktop chatting, looking painful, a person sitting on a sofa
putting a laptop on his/her lap chatting looking less painful, but
still painful, and a person lying on a bed chatting with a cell phone
looking happy! (All done by one person!)
3) Requester Name: MohammadN
Team: 7F- Google Environment
Request: A: 15-20 sec video of 10 people talking , in groups of 3,3,4
and at the end they turn to the camera and say “Can It?” ill edit
voice into it.
AND
B: Going into Starbucks/Pizza Hut/McDonalds/ (insert location for
gobbling down) and Google your meal/drink to make sure its good before
you order it
4) Requester Name: OliviaK
Team:8A-SNS and PLE
Request:
-5 seconds each
-student searching for their project information on wikispaces,
edublogs or any other learning websites
-people holding their laptops, mobile phones accessing facebook,
twitter, msn or any other social networking services
-I want at least 5 different people’s 5 different clips for each section
GROUP 2 (more video requests needed)
5) Requester Name: EllieS
Team:6A:Globalization and outsourcing
Request:
-show that you are going in to Starbucks
-order things that you want to drink
-get things
-sit down in the Starbucks
-drink your coffee
-interview people around you ,ask “what do you think about
globalization and out sourcing?how it changed? is it good?”
I need many videos from different countries.
6) Requester Name: SallyK
Team:10E- Virtual Communication
Request:
1) 5 ~ 10 second Video of people using twitter/ face book/ skype
2) Interview of 1 teenager/ 1 college student from anywhere
(What kind of virtual communication are they using? How do they
feel/think about it?)
7) Requester Name: EunahJ
Team: 5A: Web 2.0
Request: 3 different people from different countries watching any
video that they are interested in from YouTube
(I need 3 separate videos)
If you can help us it would be greatly appreciated… Thank You!
~Dave.