| An increasingly important part of Sandwatch
workshops and training is not only showing educators how to use the
Sandwatch goals and methodology, but also how to network and expand your
project using inexpensive or free technologies. Using Google Earth
to show people where your country/community/school/beach is located, or
using it to teach your students geography is very popular with teachers,
especially the first time they use it. Using
the free video editing program, MS-Movie Maker to create and edit simple
videos that you and your students can create even using a cell phone
camera, is also a very popular and valuable skill with numerous uses,
even over and above Sandwatch...though 2 dozen schools worldwide
did use Movie Maker for The Sandwatch Climate Change video contest of
last year.
Also part of the workshop training is showing
educators how to use such popular and useful utilities and programs,
such as photo editing software, Face Book, You-Tube and even free online
language translation sites such as Yahoo translate or Babel Fish.
Below are several photos of participants at the
Cape Verde workshop using Google Earth, Movie Maker, photo editing
software and several other useful online programs.
Click on the screen to the right to see the 15
minute video we made as part of the Movie Maker training session
during the workshop. Using these new skills we hope to see many
more short videos produced by the West African Sandwatchers in the
coming weeks and months! |
Click on the screen to see the video we made at the
workshop |
