Hello and welcome to my Blogfolio. Here you will find the projects I have created for ITD645. My blog posts also reflect on what I have learned throughout the course and how I will be utilizing what I have learned in the future.
After completing the podcast and video projects, reflect your working experiences of creating multimedia materials, the challenges you encountered during your creation. You also want to focus on how you will use these technologies into your own classroom? How can authoring software help you teach and your students learn? Make sure to use Chapter 7-8 as your reference. You need to upload your movie to youtube and embed youtube video to the end of your blog. You can embed vocaroo audio to your blog as well but the link will be expired soon. So I want you to download your audio as MP3 file and upload it to your blog. You will also post the interactive Edupuzzle video class and access code to the end of your blog so that your readers will be able to access it. This week we practiced authoring our own media for use in our classrooms. This has been the most enjoyable week of work for me so far! I began experimenting with online lectures last semester during a week that I was going to miss work. I was able to prepare my lectures ahead of time so my students would be able to stay on track. I had excellent feedback from them. They enjoyed being able to watch the video at their leisure, more than once, pause and rewind, and slow it down to take notes when necessary. Ever since then, I have been eager to learn more about how to improve my own multimedia use to engage my students. At my school we have access to Kaltura screen recorders. They allowed me to record and voice over a PowerPoint. I was also able to draw on the PowerPoint from my own computer, just as I would have used my Smart Board if we had been in class. One of my favorite things about lecturing this way was that I was able to get through all of the necessary material without interruptions from questions that can be distracting to students. By flipping the classroom and having the lectures before class, students can focus on the information better. They are able to think about and formulate questions for discussions in class the next day. This way, each student gets a full picture of the material before hearing other students questions. I believe this is a great way to teach because some students are able to grasp concepts quicker than others and their questions may cause the students who are still working through concepts only to become more confused without the full picture of the material. Last week we reviewed chapter 7 and learned about many of the most commonly available software that teachers can use in their classroom. The chapter also covered some of the most basic ways to use the software. Upon reviewing chapter 8 this week, we learned how that software can be useful to engage students in active learning. Active learning helps put the students in charge of learning the basic material for themselves. When students feel responsible for their own learning, they are more likely to become more engaged. They are able to learn the foundational material outside of the classroom and then engage with the instructor and their classmates in the classroom to gain a deeper understanding through activities and discussions. This is the basic set-up and purpose of the flipped classroom. Even with the plethora of learning tools and software available to instructors today, there may not always be a perfect fit for what we want to present to our students. When this happens, we can become authors of multimedia and create tools that are tailored to our students and classroom. Even better is that we can reuse this material and even share it with others. This week, we had three projects that helped us learn new ways to author our own media for our classrooms. Podcasts. Project 4 consisted of learning how to make our own audio files such as an mp3 or podcast. This was probably my least favorite media tool of the three, but it is possible that is only because I am not an auditory learner, and I also hate listening to my own voice! But I fully understand that some of my students may be auditory learners and this could be a great tool for them. I used GarageBand on my MacBook to make my podcast. It was much easier than I had anticipated. I was able to figure things out intuitively for the most part. What I did not like about it was that I could not figure out how to tell how long my recording was as I was making it. I used a script for my podcast which I felt came across very dry. It was hard for me to talk to my students without seeing them to feel I am engaging them. What I did like about it was that GarageBand was easy to use and edits were very easy to make as I stumbled through speaking. I found that if there was something I had forgotten to say, the soundbite was easy to splice and add a new piece to with the material I wanted to add. Though I left my voice unaltered for the purpose of this project, I did play with the voice sounds some and found that to be very fun. I can see how that could be a way to add in some interesting tid-bits throughout. I also had the option of adding music and sounds throughout if I had wanted, but did not feel that was necessarily appropriate for this particular project. Overall, I am glad to know how to use the software. I found that it works easily with iMovie if I wanted to add some visuals to my recordings. This could potentially give my students the options of watching and/or listening to the lecture. I could very easily see myself listening to the lecture a few times in my car to help myself review! Click here to listen to my podcast! Videos. Project 5 had us learn how to make videos. I was most intimidated by this project and definitely spent the most time on it. I was really hoping to just make a PowerPoint I could voiceover. I found that was not possible with iMovie (or at least I could not figure out how to do it) so I finally just sat down to learn the application. I found that it was much easier than I had anticipated and instantly regretted all the time I had taken to try to just make a simple PowerPoint. I actually ended up enjoying using this program and can very easily see myself using it for demonstration videos to prepare my students for their weekly labs. This could help them easily view the procedure over and over again, giving them the knowledge they need to be able to go straight to lab and work immediately. This would free up a ton of time because I typically have to break students into groups to demonstrate to small groups every week. By cutting that time, students have more time to work on their skills! I enjoyed the fact that I could easily add pictures and move them around as needed. I was able to break my “lecture” up and do short voiceover clips that I could align specifically with each picture. Click here to watch my video! (It’s a little long because I made it with the intention of actually using it for a class!) Interactive video. Project 6 was learning how to make an interactive video using EdPuzzle. This was my favorite project so far! I loved how you can utilize other videos from so many different sites and find ways to manipulate them and make them perfect for your own class. I will be using this site often with my classes in the future. It was much less time consuming than making my own video and yet accomplished the same thing and so much more. It would be easy to make my own video to use, as well. I loved that videos are easy to edit and trim so that we can pull only the most important points for the students. I also loved that we could use a video and voiceover it ourselves if we have specific points we want to make clear. I did not voiceover the entire video I chose, but rather, I inserted voice notes on important points. This is a great way to ensure the student is paying attention while they watch because they would have to stop and press play for the voice note. I also love the internal quiz feature! What a great way to make sure they are paying attention to the details of the videos. Being able to add students to your classroom is nice because you can review each student’s progress. You can also choose an option that keeps students from skipping around in a video. I wish there was a way to only make them watch without skipping the first time, and then they could rewatch and skip around to what they want to see later. That way they could focus on important points without being forced to watch the entire video each time. For that reason, I did not set up my video (and probably will not in the future) to be un-skippable. I will still be able to see what each student watched and how they did on the quiz. I have already got my coworkers learning how to use EdPuzzle now! We are pumped about this one! Click here for the link to my EdPuzzle video and learn how to perform an ABO typing! The class code is: waobhuz
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Courtney C OBrien
7/5/2019 08:43:32 pm
Katie, not Margaret,
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Jonathan Morris
7/28/2019 02:16:04 pm
This was my favorite week of work as well. Multimedia use is so effective and efficient. I agree that there is not always a perfect fit for each student, but that is why it is so good to present material in a variety of different formats. Your media tools were great. You are very creative with your use of images and clip art.
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AuthorMy name is Margaret Patrick. I am in my final semester of grad school at USM. I will graduate with a Master's in Medical Laboratory Science. |