"Multimedia Technologies in Schools Today"
I am reflecting on this topic because I think that having multimedia technologies in schools today is very beneficial for students in today's society. Multi means more then one, so multimedia is bringing more then one type of media together as one. Power points are great examples of multimedia technology. In powerpoint presentation there are different things all being shown on one slide. Pictures, text, diagrams, you can even add sounds to a powerpoint along with animation as well. Single mode teaching is not as good as multimedia teaching in schools. I am looking forward to being able to create power points in my classroom as a teacher and creating fun things to make learning more fun!
"Strategies for using powerpoint with students"
I am interested in reflecting on this topic because it has much relation to the topic i reflected on above this one. I am looking forward to creating power points for my students, but before doing all of that, I need to learn exactly how powerpoint works. There are different strategies that have to be done to draw attention to the correct information. For instance, a powerpoint slide with many small words on it in a very dull color will not attract a students eye. I am looking forwards to reading about these strategies in the text and actually be able to use them for mine and my students' benefit.
"Digital Storytelling"
Digital storytelling is awesome to be able to have in the classrooms. Reading a book is not always something that is going to be on a students priority list of interests. With that being said, there are so many things with today's technology that have been created to help solve this problem. There are things called iMovie, moviemaker, etc, that have visual affects while telling a story. These things make it so much more appealing to a student trying to read.
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Resources:
Woolf, B. (2014). Expressing creativity with multimedia technologies. InTransforming Learning with new technologies (Second ed., p. 98). Upper Saddle River.
Nice job on embedding that Flip Quiz at the end of your post - you can now go ahead and delete the other code that is right before your resources (BTW - that is the same code but you put it in the default editor instead of the HTML editor!).
ReplyDeleteThough PowerPoint has been around for awhile, there are so many different tools to provide the same kinds of presentation - both as a teacher and as a student! Any tool you decide to use definitely needs to follow the basic rules of design and the more you know about that, the better!