Week 4- Learning Activities

Multimedia

Images- I believe the use of digital images encourages critical and creative thinking. Throughout my learning experience at uni, I have used digital images in over half of my assignments- for evidence of work of a study and to display my work.

JISC Digital Media published an article “Practical Ways to Use Digital Images in Teaching and Learning”

- this article was very interesting to read. It has many suggestions in which digital images could be used to enhance learning:

·         To inspire discussion of a topic, looking at multiple aspects and contexts (e.g. general history, social history, industrial history)

·         To stimulate students writing a story/poem about that image - enhancing creative and language skills

·         To encourage critical thinking skills (e.g. describing a photograph from many different viewpoints)

·         To document an event and analyse practice (e.g. taking images via a digital camera of a student show to provide documentation and analysis, field work)

Podcasting- I am going to be completely honest with you. What is a podcast? …Well now I know after doing some research, It’s just a recording of your voice that is published on the internet.

Using podcasts in the classroom would be enjoyable and interesting for the students when they have the chance to create their own and share them. But- parental permission would be needed. We could just save them to the computer and listen to them without publishing them.

Digital Video- My first experience with movie maker was in the subject, ‘the arts’- here I created a movie about ‘my arts’ journey- I have uploaded it for your enjoyment.

Since I learnt how to use movie maker- I created a movie for my partner, he travels and surfs a lot. I used a collection of still digital images, text overlay, and video to create a movie for him. I have also uploaded that for your enjoyment.

My third attempt at creating a digital video was for the course, Ensuring Student Success. I am in the process of this movie and will add it for your enjoyment once I have completed it… I will keep you posted.

As Kearney and Shuck (2006) suggests digital video is a tool for communication, observation, reflection that enhance met cognitive, higher-order thinking and presentation skills.

This was a great article that encourages video as a powerful tool for learning- http://aaalab.stanford.edu/papers/Designed_Video_for_Learning.pdf