<h1 id="toc0" style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.4em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Next Vista and quality of videos</h1><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Join Rushton Hurley and Corinne Takara of </span><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nextvista.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">Next Vista</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> in this discussion of math video projects, video quality and the recent video contest.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All events in the Math Future weekly series: </span><a class="wiki_link" href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The recording will be at </span><a class="wiki_link" href="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/NextVista" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/NextVista</a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <h2 id="toc1" style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.3em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <a name="Next Vista and quality of videos-How to join"></a><strong>How to join</strong></h2><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0.5em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <li>Follow this link at the time of the event: <strong><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.FCAF787B38E30D58F943EB7232EE27" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:initial;padding-right:10px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">http://tinyurl.com/math20event</a></strong></li> <li>Thursday, February 9th we will meet online at 6:00pm Pacific, 9:00pm Eastern time. <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=9&year=2012&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=207" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:initial;padding-right:10px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">WorldClock for your time zone.</a></li> <li>Click "OK" and "Accept" several times as your browser installs the software. When you see Session Log-In, enter your name and click the "Login" button</li><li>If this is your first time, come a few minutes earlier to check out the technology. The room opens half an hour before the event.</li> </ul><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><h3 id="toc6" style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.1em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Rubrics for a good video: First draft</h3><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please comment!</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Maybe we can group rubrics by themes?</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Should we stop separating positive qualities and problems, but instead formulate everything in positive terms?</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">It would be nice if reviewers could add "like" or something to videos they liked then and there, and leave comments by videos, as well.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Positive qualities</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0.5em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <li>Fun, engaging (Linda)</li><li>Handwriting - easy to relate to, engaging (Linda)</li><li>Sum up the topic at the end (Linda, Marie B.)</li><li>Quality is good enough for mobile devices (Linda)</li><li>Clear speaking, well-modulated, enthusiastic, friendly, confident voice, good pace of speech (Linda, Marie B.)</li> <li>Beautiful animations, computer graphics, special effects (Linda, Marie B., Maria D.)</li><li>Use of underlining, color, arrows and other visual elements for structure (Linda, Marie B.)</li><li>Captioning (Linda, Marie B.)</li> <li>Multiple representations of math (Murray, Maria D.)</li><li>Show and explain why the content is needed (Marie B., Julia, Murray, Maria D.)</li><li>Creative use of familiar, everyday analogies, especially beautiful, funny or cute ones (Marie B., Mike, Maria D.)</li> <li>Repetition, with different visuals or examples (Linda, Marie B.)</li><li>Clear diagrams (Marie B.)</li><li>Good pace (Linda, Marie B.)</li><li>Makes people laugh (Marie B., Maria D.)</li><li>Historical references, background of the topic (Marie B.)</li> <li>Clear focus on helping the target audience, and good understanding of who they are (Julia, Rushton, Murray)</li><li>Demonstrated love, joy, and care about the topic and math in general (Julia)</li><li>One (short) video, one concept (Murray)</li> <li>Separate information clearly into component parts and structure the sequence of parts well (Murray, Maria D.)</li><li>Use open licensed (for example, Creative Commons) media or cite copyrighted media under Fair Use guidelines (Murray)</li> <li>Easy prompts such as whiteboard, showing that anyone can easily make a video (Linda, Maria D.)</li><li>Use physical actions by actors to show/personify mathematical actions; for example, moving like terms physically through the room (Mike)</li> <li>Straightforward examples (Mike)</li><li>Prompts and jump points that can easily start discussions or hands-on activities (Mike)</li><li>Involving family and friends (Marie B., Maria D.)</li><li>Visuals (even briefly "flashed") bringing attention to key words in a spoken sentence (Maria D.)</li> <li>Using a coherent theme for analogies in the video (Maria D.)</li><li>Collection of all tricky, border case examples to warn of pitfalls (Maria D.)</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Problems, detractors, issues</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0.5em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <li>Just showing symbols, without/before the meaning (Linda, Murray)</li><li>Symbols or text beyond reading levels of the target audience (Linda)</li><li>Too long (Linda)</li><li>Examples too easy for the concept (Linda)</li> <li>Additional concepts implicitly required to understand (Linda)</li><li>Math mistakes: watch out for incorrect definitions, broken analogies, or too-broad claims (Linda, Marie B., Murray)</li><li>Distracting music making it hard to concentrate (Marie B.)</li> </ul><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><h2 id="toc7" style="padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.3em;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <a name="Next Vista and quality of videos-Event Hosts"></a>Event Hosts</h2><strong style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/RushtonHurley.png/298837350/RushtonHurley.png" alt="RushtonHurley.png" title="RushtonHurley.png" align="left" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; "><img src="http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/file/view/CorinneOkada.jpg/298839724/159x240/CorinneOkada.jpg" alt="CorinneOkada.jpg" title="CorinneOkada.jpg" align="right" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; height: 240px; width: 159px; ">Rushton Hurley</strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is the executive director of </span><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nextvista.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-image:url('http://www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif');background-color:rgb(255,255,255);padding-right:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">Next Vista</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. He has taught at the high school and college level, been a school principal, worked with charter and traditional schools, and organized and run an online school. His graduate school background at Stanford includes exploring technology-enhanced learning through multi-media and speech recognition. Starting with his professional experiences and training, and adding having built connections to interested educators around the world, he is in a strong position to advance this project. Even better, the idea of helping students become more engaged in and confident with their learning is one that drives his passion and resources to make this project succeed. Give him a few minutes, and he'll convince you, too.</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Corinne Takara</strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> is the executive director of Next Vista and the owner of Okada design. She is a m</span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif">ixed media artist and arts educator, creating large installation pieces for hospitals and private collections. Corinne teaches craft workshops at various museums in the San Francisco Bay Area.</span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Cheers,<br>Maria Droujkova<br>919-388-1721<br><br>Make math your own, to make your own math<br><br> <br>