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These guidance pages are quite text heavy and media light. They are not very engaging (although the detail has been welcomed in pilot activity).To help the collection to be engaging and to help your evidecne to be seen as authentic and relevant we need you to contribute something to show as well as something to read.
Pictures or movies are acceptable and indeed you must contribute something in this section for your action research to be published.
Below is some explanation of the formats that can be contributed, together with some examples:
Pictures, sound and movies:
ideas
Ask yourself, "what will colleagues want to see?".
still images: what images to choose? if your observations are suggesting better engagement a photo of the class may be worthwhile; if you are excited by particualr pieces of artwork, the artwork itself would be interesting, but perhaps the artwork on-screen, with the students in shot too, would show your context (and their faces) better. Still images could also include graphs, charts and scanned papers documents.
sound: is useful if there is something pertinent to hear (just a classroom buzz may be unhelpful but a student offering a comment may be enlightening).
movies: similarly a moving image may be useful where the movement helps inform collegues (if for example you are illustrating organisation and movement within a science / data capture lesson).
The bottom line is that we need a picture, movie or sound from you and it should add understanding to readers of your action research.
examples
Here are four examples: a student talking about his initial disappointment with ICT at seconday schools, a graph showing the wide range of ages (8K) encompassing children engaged on an ICT project (in this case Tesco SchoolNet 2000), a still image of mixed age students brought together (24K) by an ICT project and a stop frame animation (32K) by 7 and 8 year old children.
Of course asking for one image or sound or movie is unfair, but you will see that multiple contributions are possible.
geeky things
Still images: two file formats will work for certain, (others may, but try to stick to these if possible), they are:
.gif and .jpg files. Most image software will offer to save or export files in these formats and they are very common whether you use a Macintosh, Microsoft or Unix computer operating system.There is a simple test of whether your picture file will work: drag it into this (or any) browser window. If it appears there, it will work on the TforT.net site too.
Sounds and movies: we have adopted QuickTime™ as the standard for the site. Quicktime™ is an open standard and will play more than 30 file formats: a full index is available from here.
File size: this is very much your choice. Big files will take a long time to be seen/heard by someone connected by a simple phone line. You must trade file size against the extra detail of a larger file and make your own judgement. Err on the small side if in any doubt. The file sizes of our examples are above to help you and are appropriate sizes.
The bottom line is that you need to contribute a picture (please), sound or movie and it will need to be a sensible size to be viewed and enjoyed by many.
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