This chapter is full of great multimedia tools to improve the educational experience. Students can upload and manipulate images with Flickr and Photoshop Elements. They can add audio to podcasts using Audacity or Midi software. Or they can make videos and upload them to YouTube. The best part of all these tools is that they are so engaging to learners. Using these tools, students can really take ownership in their learning.
The best part of this chapter, in my opinion, is the action items at the end of the chapter (pages 96-99). Not only does Warlick provide excellent suggestions on how to incorporate these multimedia tools, he lays out specific ways each part of the team can work toward the same goal. Many times teachers are frustrated that the burden lies solely on them. By Warlick specifying how directors of technology, principals, media specialists, school tech facilitators, teachers, students, and parents can contribute to the same goal, teachers will feel less burdened by the role of incorporating these multimedia tools.
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A question I've been wanting to ask someone: Do we have our students create accounts for all these free Web 2.0 applications? Do we need parent approval? I know I was a little apprehensive to sign up for all these accounts for Kristin's class...don't know why I was now...but parents might feel the same way I did without exploring it for themselves. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteGood point Melissa I think about a portion in the Digital Storytelling video where he addresses safety. There are items that can be done to help hide student identities, such as assigning random gibberish names. Also if you are going to be useing a lot of web tools then no matter the class you will want to discuss safety.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago we had a safety workshop for the kids and one of the sessions was an officer from DCI that demonstrated how easy it is to track an ID from a username and a few pieces of information on a blog or other site. I tried to find information on this program but the closest I came was the Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force at: http://www.dps.state.ia.us/commis/pib/Releases/2005/10-24-2005_ICAC_release.htm
We share the same feelings about he last part of this chapter! Without a doubt, the number one frustration teachers have in my building is that each year more and more gets piled to their work load and there isn't enough time to learn it all and get it all done. It's not that teachers are resilient to change, it is that they don't have enough time to learn how. Administrators, tech. instructors and librarians need to play a role in walking teachers through these 21st century skills and showing them how to apply them to the curriculum they teach.
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