The first one spoken off in the book is PowerPoint. This is a tool I've used since middle school and continue to use in college. It is probably the most well known tool to create a presentation, where you can have music, video, pictures, interactive activities and written word. With PowerPoint however, you can still create a very boring presentation (just words and A LOT of them on one slide), so it's important for all teachers to remember.....you guessed it! Multimedia. Adding a slide with just a picture or just a video and then having the notes memorized or written down separately for you refer too is the most efficient way in my mind to use PowerPoint to it's full potential and keep your students entertained. PowerPoint, however, has been around a long time and is definitely the older generation of presentations.
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| For this slide you would have all the words you'd like to say to the student written down separately or memorized |
The next one is one I haven't really used much but would be really useful in an elementary school classroom. Digital storytelling is the ways that written text, audio, and video imagery can be combined to make unique story presentations. This tool would come in handy for almost every school subject; history, science and language arts specifically. History because the teacher is "telling the story of history" so it would make perfect sense to use digital story telling to explain your lesson plan here. Language arts is an important one too, as you can use it to teach different styles of writing to the students. It also allows students to become more and more creative with their presentations. It let's them have artistic control over it and have fun with the editing, which is extremely important for kids who are constantly developing and growing their creative minds.
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| A quick digital story-telling poem of a mantra I tell myself |
The last one might be my favorite, podcasts and vodcasts. I absolutely love podcasts and video podcasts. I am constantly listening to them in my daily life. Driving, at work, doing the dishes, ect. So naturally, I would be excited about the idea of creating my own for my classroom. I think it would serve as a great tool to post a little extra information regarding the lesson that day, daily updates, and upcoming deadlines. I can imagine it would serve very helpful for parents and students. The category of podcasts is in this chapter as a multimedia tool, but when I think of it I think of just an information platform, which I don't believe is how this chapter intended me to think about it. To put it in terms of a multimedia platform, I think it'd be a great idea (granted this might only work on higher grade level students) to have them create a weekly podcast. I imagine it this way: having students pair up or be in groups, go over the lesson and "reteach" it onto a podcast. Then maybe they can all be uploaded to an online classroom and used as a study tool throughout the week. That would be a great way to use this to engage learning. I still love it as a tool to communicate with parents and students though. Here is a link to some TedTalks uploaded into podcasts about education, so you can get a feel for how podcasts work and sound.
Ellis, J. (2016, October 23). Powerpoint example 1 & 2.
TEDTalks Education by TEDTalks on iTunes. (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2016, from https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tedtalks-education/id470623037?mt=2
Ditchthattextbook. (2013, July 1). Why Podcast in Class? Reasons for Educational Classroom ... Retrieved October 23, 2016, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDdJJluOqLU
Ellis, J. (2016, October 23). Retrieved October 23, 2016, from https://storybird.com/poetry/poetrymaker/?artwork_id=a62b9705-0cd5-4627-a212-58517fd6a982&shop_slug=dwell-deep
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.
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