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"Over the past decade, digital video editing software has developed from an expensive, rather clumsy tool, to a cheaper, user friendly tool with many capabilities that facilitate learner control. This development has given rise to a host of new applications in education, including the ability of students to capture, edit and generate their own video. As a result, student generated digital video projects (referred to subsequently in this paper as DV tasks or DV projects) are now being used in many classrooms to support, extend, or change pedagogy and curriculum outcomes. The project on which this paper is based studied the use of student generated digital video in five schools. Two foci of the project were the nature of student learning from DV tasks and the pedagogical approaches being used with this technology. One of the characteristics of the video tasks that was noted in the study was their authentic nature. This paper analyses current understandings of authentic learning, examines teacher and student beliefs about the perceived authentic nature of student generated digital video tasks, and provides evidence of the authentic learning noted in the DV tasks from the study." Related documents by the author: * "Using Digital Video to Enhance Authentic Technology - Mediated Learning in Science Classrooms" (http://www.ed-dev.uts.edu.au/personal/mkearney/homepage/acrobats/acec.pdf) * "Authentic Learning through the Use of Digital Video" (PDF) (http://www.ed-dev.uts.edu.au/teachered/research/dvproject/pdfs/ACEC2004.pdf), with Sandy Schuck

The ACTF is committed to providing Australian children with entertaining media made especially for them, which makes an enduring contribution to their cultural and educational experience.

Metro magazine is published by the Australian Teachers of Media, (ATOM). ATOM also publishes Screen Education magazine; study guides and education kits; The Moving Image series of monographs; and web sites for feature films, documentaries and television programs. ATOM also runs The Education Shop and The Speakers’ Bureau.

This is a segment of Keith Lightbody's continously updated web site (http://www.zardec.net.au/keith/index.html) of which he says "This site is about helping everyday people use technology to do a quality job - quicker, easier, smarter! The focus is on achieving good solutions cost-effectively, calmly and simply. I aim to help the 80% of people who just want learning technology to be easy to use and reliable."

Several links and papers concerning student-developed digital video. Schuck, S. & Kearney, M. (2004). Students in the director's seat: Teaching and learning across the school curriculum with student-generated video. (This study was funded by a UTS Industry Links Research Grant with Apple Computers Australia. ) Project Description This project investigated the value and use of student-generated digital video for enhancing pedagogy in K-12 schools. It aimed to identify, examine and analyse pedagogical practices in relation to use of this technology in five case schools. A further aim was to articulate the principles, contexts and approaches underlying these practices. An understanding of the practices and approaches which enhance or constrain pedagogy in these five cases will contribute to a future larger study. Principles of good practice developed in this study will be used to inform future research on models for enhancing pedagogy with digital video in education.

ACMI is the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Also visit the sub page http://www.acmi.net.au/learn.htm with special screenings, lectures and innovative hands-on workshops for primary and secondary school students, tertiary students and educators. From the wonders of more than a century of cinema, to television, computer games and the screen-based art of the future, ACMI is the place to find out everything about the moving image.

Screen It is Australia's national moving image competition for school students. Designed to encourage imagination and inventiveness in Australia's primary and secondary school students, Screen It fosters a new generation of young moving image makers. In 2008 entrants are asked to create works responding to the theme of 'Australian Identity'. What does it mean to be Australian today? How may this change in the future? What has it meant in the past?

This is a Master of Education thesis from 1999 by Carol Daunt. The study investigated the nature of interaction that can be achieved in educational videoconferencing and what adaptations (if any) to teaching and learning strategies are necessary. In particular it examines the following: 1. What impact does the technology have on the interactions? 2. Do lecturers have to make adaptations to teaching strategies? 3. Do students have to make adaptations to learning strategies? 4. Can a ‘dialogical’ approach be used effectively in videoconferencing?

This paper outlines the possibilities for using broadband videoconferencing within the larger context of changing the focus for teaching from the teacher to the learners. It also explores opportunities that might be created by this technology to facilitate learner-centred engagement in learning and to provide new opportunities for collaboration and support for students studying by the distance mode. As part of the wider discussion, it presents a decision-making framework for teachers to consider when integrating videoconferencing into their curriculum. The bandwidths possible from broadband Internet connection rather than the integrated services digital network transmission increase the richness of videoconferencing to a much closer approximation of natural communication, thus creating opportunities for more creative uses for the medium. The outcomes of trials undertaken at the University of New England during the last two years provide the basis for predicting the usefulness of the technology for learner-centered interactions when the majority of students are learning from locations quite remote from the main campus.