Comments on: You Need Spyglasses – Are you Serious?

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:40:04 +0000

My role with using the Spyglasses or POV has been that I obtained them but they are being used by another section of my Campus. So as such I haven’t been involved with that aspect. But with all of these types of tools there should always be guidelines.

I suggest you contact Alex Hayes as he is heavily involved with their development — or would you rather I did asked him for you?

By: alexmiller

alexmiller — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:52:23 +0000

Hi Sue,
Just wondering, have you had any issues with privacy using spyglasses? Have you put any specific guidelines in place for students, or anything like that?

Was going to Twitter the network, for their thoughts, but it’s blocked at TAFE NSW so I thought contacting you might be my best option!

Cheers,
Alex

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:59:22 +0000

Hi JoNelle, another option to using Spyglasses (or point-of-view glasses) is to use two people where one does the task and the other uses a digital camera on video mode filming from behind the person. I use Canon cameras because they film in avi format which makes editing easier.

Then the idea for watching the videos is you let the students use their own mobile devices and then download onto them. That way you aren’t haven’t to purchase the devices that become outdated within a short period of time. The student can watch the task on their own devices, at school or home, at their own pace, over and over.

Glad the session made you think of other ways of doing things.

By: JoNelle Gardner

JoNelle Gardner — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:44:03 +0000

Sue, I told my principal about the webmeeting about mobile devices and spyglasses. She loves it all too.
While I was cooking, ideas began about practical uses of spy glasses for the the elementary level.
I wanted help with my cooking, and realized that anyone seeing the steps that I took could easily advise me as to where I was going wrong and offer suggestions.
What else would really be important to have eye-level view videos? What types of eye-level videos would benefit students &/or teachers?
Multi-step directions – all types
Nature walks
Science experiments
First aide skills
Point-of-view digital story-telling
Field trip sharing (esp with our tighter budgets this year)
…and cooking
The list can be endless if we just let it.
Sue, Thank you for pushing us all to think outside of the box, and for motivating us to take the next step!

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By: Renato

Renato — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:22:15 +0000

Sue your experience is very interesting and it’s opening a new elearning sorry mlearning world to me.

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By: dswaters

dswaters — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:14:43 +0000

Thanks Geoff for dropping past and letting everyone know where they can find out more information on spyglasses.

One of the lecturers from fashion used my spyglasses last week for creating instructional videos. Excellent quality. On problem for her is she is using a Mac and the file format is not supported on the Mac. Does the new version of the glasses record in a different file format?

BTW All the work on my sites is me – Dave my husband is the technology widower who nicely puts up with me working all the time. So I suppose that means he is the most important member of the team?

Sue

By: Geoff Lubich

Geoff Lubich — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:18:41 +0000

Hi All
it is gratifying to know that there are people within our education systems who are also interested in leading the way in developing the systems@methodologies to enable the use of emerging and future technologies. As the person who has put enormous effort into introducing and developing this hardware and isolating and overcoming the problems in the commercially available glasses i invite all interested parties to visit http://www.scubasuit.bigblog.com.au to garner more imformation about these technolgies.Please do not just go ahead and order the glasses available from internet suppliers as this may lead to dissapointment in the performance of the cameras.The cameras of the net are low light cameras that do not provide the performance that Sue is achieving with the gen 2 set that she is using.These cameras have been modified at production to make the camera element more reactive and responsive to normal light situations I must congratulate and thank Sue @ Dave for their efforts in making effective use of the system and disseminating the concept through their blog