Our focus last night was on using technology to provide more visual learning experiences for students. Ultimately, our new abilities to relate to visual learners could lead to schools and educators providing high quality visual learning experiences for students and to creating school environments that are successful with more students. Thus, the emphasis on visual digital affordances in this class.
Adam Wade kept up the tradition of high quality resource reviews with an interesting and informative review of digital textbook capabilities. I look forward to a lively discussion of this topic this week.
Diana provided a useful definition of digital stories and a useful way to think about creating a story line. Students then completed a quick introduction to the basic skills needed for creating a digital story in either IMovie or MovieMaker. I noted that most students already were quite comfortable with techniques in either IMovie or MovieMaker as evidenced by the quick and creative sample videos now on our class Facebook site.
I am hoping that students will be well started on their own digital stories by class time next week and that we can spend some time discussing these projects and providing suggestions to each other.
After next week, we will move online for several weeks and I am feeling confidant that we have the procedures set up for an interesting and successful online learning experience.
I think this weeks class was very informative. The discussion about iBooks and interactive textbooks engaged me and made me want to find more books for when I am a future teacher. Also I have worked with iMovie before but forgot how to operate it since it had been a couple of years. I am excited to start the Digital Stories and share mine and hear about everyone else's. I think this class went very well and am excited to start on my Digital story.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the presentation a lot. I haven't seen any of the recent interactive sorts of texts, and I was impressed with how far they've come since I last saw them.
ReplyDeleteI also really like the digital storytelling activities - I haven't done much in the way of video editing, so I always like a good reason to get my feet wet there. I was encouraged by the classroom/Facebook exercise; it was very fast and the results felt pretty professional for the small amount of time put in.
--Bryon Dudley
I enjoyed hearing about interactive textbooks. My husband had mentioned something about it a while ago, but I had forgotten. I'm not sure what I think about them, and how it will truly work (as I mentioned in the discussion). It will be interesting to see--as with all technology--how it will truly play out in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited about getting more experience creating a digital story. I have taught how to do it, but actually doing it will be different. Now if only I can decide what subject to focus on....