The Role of Media in Learning
There is no doubt that media and technology are important and will continue to important into the future. We all use some sort of media in our daily lessons be it newspaper articles, television, internet news, etc. but with new technologies come even bigger opportunities for additions to our daily lessons. We have used blogs in this class and previous classes and have found that they can be very useful in spreading individual ideas to a larger number of people. Daily class blogs could be very useful in keeping students and parents "in the know" about what is going on in your classes during the year.
In looking at the variety of sources that were included in our techsercise for this week, I found that there were many web-based media tools that could help in my classroom. Odeo Studio would be very useful for me in the use of taping lectures and readings for students who were absent so they would be able to keep up when they were gone. It would be useful for recording daily messages for teachers by administrators, other teachers, and even parent questions if they had the resources to do this.
A second site that I found that could be useful in my classroom was Flickr. I could see me using this right now with our cross country team and its use of sharing pictures with the whole team. We could create a file that all parents, athletes, and coaches could import pictures into to share with the whole team. I could use this in my classroom also by importing good pictures that my students could use for presentations, research papers, etc. for the school. It provides a good way of putting everything useful in one place. This would cut down on the amount of time that students waste when trying to find information online and that could be used on organizing the information.
In conclusion, there were many other valuable resources that were available on the website that could be used and with more time, I could easily find ways to incorporate many other resources in my daily classroom activities. I was very happy with the amount of available resources that were quality sites that could be used in any classroom. In the future, there will be even more that could help improve the teaching methods of all teachers and that is never a bad thing.
In looking at the variety of sources that were included in our techsercise for this week, I found that there were many web-based media tools that could help in my classroom. Odeo Studio would be very useful for me in the use of taping lectures and readings for students who were absent so they would be able to keep up when they were gone. It would be useful for recording daily messages for teachers by administrators, other teachers, and even parent questions if they had the resources to do this.
A second site that I found that could be useful in my classroom was Flickr. I could see me using this right now with our cross country team and its use of sharing pictures with the whole team. We could create a file that all parents, athletes, and coaches could import pictures into to share with the whole team. I could use this in my classroom also by importing good pictures that my students could use for presentations, research papers, etc. for the school. It provides a good way of putting everything useful in one place. This would cut down on the amount of time that students waste when trying to find information online and that could be used on organizing the information.
In conclusion, there were many other valuable resources that were available on the website that could be used and with more time, I could easily find ways to incorporate many other resources in my daily classroom activities. I was very happy with the amount of available resources that were quality sites that could be used in any classroom. In the future, there will be even more that could help improve the teaching methods of all teachers and that is never a bad thing.
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