[senit] Switch access to music and video

Do any of the applications you have set up at school

If im being terribly honest we may be missing the point of "pop" which
is rarely likely to provide useful educational material outside of
itself as videos can give cultural reference points and a sense of the
fashions and norms of any time but one can over extend 

Useful things to look for is a sense of time and place in a video, even
if constructed, or to look at the relationship between the words and the
image - what has suggested a particular image to the director etc

Have fun 

David Banes
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-----Original Message-----
From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of david fettes
Sent: 10 May 2008 14:20
To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senit] Switch access to music and video

thanks Sally, your powerpoint pop video guide has
inspired me to have another go at this in training
sessions with staff. Students do love pop videos,any
ideas how to make them more "educational"?! in
content. eg instead of only watching britney or
whoever, on a pop video she could be holding a
symbolled sign saying don't do drugs. that is not a
serious suggestion but how could switch pop videos be
more incorporated into lessons-
literacy/maths/pse/humanities etc more ? I suppose the
content of the song is important.anyone done a
cross-ref of popular songs with key themes/concepts?!
David
--- Sally Paveley <sallyp at advisory-unit.org.uk> wrote:

> Do any of the applications you have set up at school
> to play music/video 
> files have players; PowerPoint and SwitchIt Maker 2
> have downloadable 
> players and can be used to play music and video
> clips.  If so you can send 
> activities you have made home along with a player
> and the switches.
> 
> There are some pop videos on The Whiteboard Room
> website and of course there 
> are the pop videos on the Priory Woods website which
> are ready to use.
> 
> I have created a blank pop video PowerPoint that I
> use on courses for people 
> to have a go at creating their own.  I have now put
> this, along with the 
> instructions, into the Information/Program Guides
> section of The Whiteboard 
> Room. www.whiteboardroom.org.uk
> 
> Sally
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "barry andrews" <barryandy1966 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "SENIT" <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:11 AM
> Subject: [senit] Switch access to music and video
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> >  I work with a student switch user who enjoys
> listening to music. Is there 
> > an easy way for her to access music and/or video
> files on her home 
> > computer. In school we have various applications
> that will allow this but 
> > her home computer doesn't have any AT resources
> set up. She could borrow a 
> > switch interface and switches to try out if we can
> come up with a simple 
> > way to do it.
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
> >  Barry
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
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> 
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