Digital Badge: Chapter 9
After
reading chapter nine of Transforming Learning with New Technologies. The most
important concepts I found interesting were
Power Point and Next-Generation
Presentation Tools
Today's students are all about
technology. You will find there more students involve in class activities when
their teacher involve technology in the class lesson. Teacher use technology
such as PowerPoint. What is PowerPoint? PowerPoint is a multimedia
presentation software package that features in many of today's computers.
PowerPoint computerize presentations that were previously done with
chance tendencies of an overhead projector or slice in a slice projector. In a
PowerPoint, you will find images, text and data. Teachers take advantage of
this PowerPoint features which helps their students' have a visual view of the
information that is being displays in the projector. Teachers use different
types of colorful graphics, pop-ups and words to keep the student attention in
the PowerPoint slice their presenting. PowerPoint is a useful tool for
all teachers and students at every grade level that I would recommend to
included in a class lesson activity. The video above shows a tutorial of how a PowerPoint is done.
Videos In The Classroom
Like PowerPoint presentations showing educational videos is another way to keep the students attention and a great way to included technology in the class lesson. By showing educational videos it offer ways to present information while redirecting the method of instruction from the teacher to screen for part of the class time. There are teachers who read books with their class. Once, they finished reading the book, he or she shows the movie that goes along with the book so his or her student have a visual idea of what they read. In these days, students are been raised in a culture where televisions and computers screens are constantly present. Why not show an educational movie that would educate the student and keep them entertain instead of watching shows that are not appropriate for their ages!
Photo taking and Movie making with students
Students can have a fun time
making a PowerPoint and watching a movie in class. Yet, they can have more fun
by taking photos, editing them and presenting them to their classmates. In
these digital era, students can include multiple mediums for photo taken and
can be taken in every subject area at every grade level. Nowadays, students are
more involved with technology to the point that teachers are asking them to
video tape themselves doing a class project, introducing themselves or simply interviewing
someone. When the students take photos they express who they are and by videotaping
they build confidence, learn how to communicate and express themselves. I
strongly recommend that teachers should take advantage this all this tools!
Resources:
Maloy, Robert,
Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park
(2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition.
Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Creating
a Presentation - PowerPoint 2010. (2010, September 2). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUwFwooMrY
Great ideas on using photos and videos in the classroom. There's nothing like students taking the lead and showing what they know through media! Sometimes teachers need to step out of the way to see creative learning at its best. :) And, realistically, students often have the technical equipment to do so right in their pockets - seems a shame not to put it to use. In addition, some great digital citizenship lessons can come out of such an activity.
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