Blog Post #H

Just a brief update to where we are in this semester there is 9 days till Halloween, 32 days until Thanksgiving, 50 days till our final, 64 sleeps till Christmas, and 74 days until the New Year. And in case you were wondering I did not count these days from the top of my head I used the great device of TECHNOLOGY…

Okay so with the opener out of the way here is my feedback from this week's chapter.

For the most part any teacher can say that their students are diverse and learn in different ways. Technology is just as diverse and can teach in many different ways as well. And that is why Technology, Teaching, Students, and Learning go hand and hand so well! The technologies listed in the book are just a small part of what students can take advantage of:

• ·         Handcrafted videos
•       Video sharing and hosting websites
• ·         Webcasts
• ·         Digital storytelling and digital art making
• ·         Digital cameras
• ·         Digital video recorders
• ·         Digital video editing software
• ·         IPods
• ·         Podcasts and vodcasts

Multimedia is combining multiple media such as: text, data, voice, picture, and video- in a single application or technology. This allows teachers to take a lesson and distribute it into every type of learners way of learning whether they be visual, auditory, read-write, or kinesthetic. This to me is GOLD. And when I reference Gold I don’t mean that plain ole Gold. 

"Plain Ole Gold"
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I mean the beautiful Gold. Because when a teacher can teach one lesson that speaks to all of their students that is just beautiful to me.

"The Beautiful Gold"
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As said in the book there are Advantages and Disadvantages of PowerPoint and just like power point I think these points can apply to many other media presentations so I figured I would add to them.

Advantages:

• gives short key points 
• gives a visual for class presentations 
• easy and available to most computers
• many media points can be combined like pictures, text, charts, and graphs
• if allowed students can learn to present themselves
• students get to learn from other students

Disadvantages:

• points may not be useful when less in depth
• students may tune out during presentations by students or teachers
• teachers must spend time learning the material before presenting it
• Presentation may be so busy that students have a hard time understanding
• if students present themselves they may not grasp the whole concept that was meant to be learned
• students may come off hard to understand when presenting

All in all I believe that the Advantages of being able to use technology for teaching out ways the disadvantages because of technology being so versatile.

References: 

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.