Comments on: Jump Cut http://terence.mybgsuonline.com/2007/03/15/jump-cut/ Experienced e-Learning Specialist, Entrepreneur, Futurist Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:51:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Patrick Higgins http://terence.mybgsuonline.com/2007/03/15/jump-cut/#comment-30 Patrick Higgins Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:22:00 +0000 http://terence.mybgsuonline.com/2007/03/15/jump-cut/#comment-30 Here is my issue with jumpcut, in a nutshell: I am piecing together a wiki for a team of 8th grade teachers and they would like their students to be able to create digital stories as a part of their wikispace. In going through the various online video editing apps to make up for those students who do not have access to MovieMaker, Photostory, iMovie or any other software package, I came across jumpcut. I did the research and it looked like the best out there at the moment for editing. I was just about to link it to the resource page on the wiki, when I see on their page a video with a guy wearing nothing but a helmet. <br/><br/>I am all for open access and limited firewalls, but no teacher in their right mind could ethically link to jumpcut with that on their front page. Why doesn't jumpcut allow for some filtering in that regard? <br/><br/>This is a tough situation. Asking my teachers to explain that to parents is a little too much for them to handle. If that type of material appears on the screen in the classroom, that is a teachable moment and you move on with how to react appropriately. When a parent sees that, yes they should treat it as a teachable moment, but their first reaction is going to be "your teacher gave you that link?" Here is my issue with jumpcut, in a nutshell: I am piecing together a wiki for a team of 8th grade teachers and they would like their students to be able to create digital stories as a part of their wikispace. In going through the various online video editing apps to make up for those students who do not have access to MovieMaker, Photostory, iMovie or any other software package, I came across jumpcut. I did the research and it looked like the best out there at the moment for editing. I was just about to link it to the resource page on the wiki, when I see on their page a video with a guy wearing nothing but a helmet.

I am all for open access and limited firewalls, but no teacher in their right mind could ethically link to jumpcut with that on their front page. Why doesn’t jumpcut allow for some filtering in that regard?

This is a tough situation. Asking my teachers to explain that to parents is a little too much for them to handle. If that type of material appears on the screen in the classroom, that is a teachable moment and you move on with how to react appropriately. When a parent sees that, yes they should treat it as a teachable moment, but their first reaction is going to be “your teacher gave you that link?”

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