Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Flash play/Animoto frustrations
I wanted to review the Lodge Does the Canopy Animoto video, but cannot. The video requires the download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. I had a similar frustration several months ago at a local high school. I had what I thought was a great lesson plan and webquest for the students, but most of them couldn't get to the pages that were so easy for me to get to from home or my office. Even the teacher's desk computer could go the right pages. All the student laptops and computer labs needed the to download the program. But the schools have the computers so locked down that they are very difficult to use. Anyhow, I write this as a warning. Animoto may be awesome, but if your students can't use it, it is useless. So frustrating.
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I read this post earlier and missed the opportunity to express my opinion that teachers need to be proactive with the people who control school information technology departments. Find out who is in control and build a case for less restrictive filtering. Use Animoto as an example of good things that are being excluded. Do a demo, get an exception for one class if necessary.
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