For the second multimedia, I decided to focus on the Henry Jenkins video along with the Michele Jacobson article. I was really excited and eager to try out a different platform beside the mind map. I decided to try out the Piktochart in the beginning, I found a few things such as how to properly get images and pictures. It was something that I quickly grasped and began to find was fairly easy and straightforward. It remained me a lot of the PowerPoint platform on how you can add text and add pictures.
The reason I decided to choose the Henry Jenkins video and the Jacobson article because personally I am more drawn to visually seeing something being taught to me rather than having to read articles. I like to break up articles with the use of videos I find it helps me learn better and understand a topic. When first watching the Jenkins video I really noticed how teachers of today’s teaching are not like they were 5-10 years ago. Â When I was in elementary school the use of technology was very minimal and if it used it was never used very well. Technology is constantly changing into bigger and better things, the most important thing I think we as teachers need to malleable in the sense of being flexible and being subject to change in with the use of technology. This can be related back to our course that we were taught ways to be flexible and being able to use multiple platforms to allow students to succeed in the classroom.
During my first practicum, I noticed many new things that a classroom has to offer now since I’ve been out of high school. Many of these things are beneficial now to student learning, I’ve seen teachers use technology to help students with their English, such as having this new program called Alexa that allows students to work on English homework to better them as students. Along with Alexa, my associate was heavily into using YouTube videos in his lessons which gave students another viewpoint for them to learn that lesson. All these technological applications used in our digital media class can be applied to our second practicum in many ways, one being using a twitter hashtag that we did last week to spark students interest in a topic. We can also use the Mentimeter application to better understand our students and see what areas they need help in. This all can be tied back into the readings for this assignment by teachers and students working together to better the use of technology and helping each other out.
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