Challenges of Video and Audio K-12 eLearning

Discuss the challenges with the implementation of audio and video resources in k-12 eLearning.
Some of the challenges with the implementation of audio and video resources in K-12 eLearning are some classroom produced audio presentations are a little bit of amateur quality, but students enjoy hearing their own work.
Sometimes special equipment is needed to listen to audio and video files such as CD and DVD players. The price of equipment has come down considerably since this book was written. You can find DVD and CD players at garage sales. Now the technology is going to the I-cloud and iTunes which require more sophisticated equipment which schools might lack.
Streaming video also depends on bandwidth and computer availability. So a internet provider is a must. Video is good at providing visual and oral information. However the interpretation of the video has to be clarified to the students. Some students might misinterpret the meaning of the video. Some abstract concepts are not suited for video although lately I've seen some abstract concepts on video such as string theory, black holes, multi-dimension, and other higher mathematical and physics concepts that were amazing!
I have listed some videos I thought would explain where my former students were coming from. Native Americans have had a difficult relationship with the forcible removal of their children into boarding schools in the twentieth century. Students were not allowed to speak their language, and were forcibly removed from their families. Many Native Americans view formal school with much deserved suspicion. Some of the videos I found explain this well deserved attitude towards any federal government program.
Sometimes the homemade produced videos have more of a ring of truth to them than sophisticated documentaries made by outsiders.



I found a student produced video of life on the Apache REZ and thought it was excellent even when done by eighth graders.

REZ Life White Mountain Apache. Student made video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_L6FdOaOS8

Some videos are capture fleeting moment in time. Traditional foods and traditional ways of teaching are caught on this video.

Traditional methods of teaching: How to make fry bread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj3kwsmZZsA

Native American students win Gates Scholarships.

http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2015-05-07/Front_Page/Rez_Students_Win_Gates_Scholarships.html

Edgar Perry (My amazing fellow teacher and neighbor) discusses Apache History. He was one of the people involved in translating, inventing an alphabet and transcribing the Apache Language into a written language. Apache had in recent times been an oral only language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSWSTb0siVo

Sunrise dance White Mountain Apache. This is a traditional coming of age ceremony for girls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_L6FdOaOS8

Running on the REZ. A Navajo Nation track team competes in the state finals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0Wl3K-kac

Video produced by White Mountain Apache Tribe students

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-rbAWnFcc

http://www.edweek.org/ew/projects/2013/native-american-education/running-in-place.html

The history of Indian Boarding Schools, education in the 20^th century and the Federal Government control of educating Native Americans by removing children from families  by putting them in boarding schools far away from their homes. A reminder of the past is the street where I live, 82^nd and Indian School road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOe-x1aUP2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8ZgKho-s4