Digital Blog Post- #H Chapter 9

The use of PowerPoint has become more and more popular. It helps one organize their ideas and visually show their thoughts. With PowerPoint, one can add 3-D effects, narration, sound, pictures, diagrams and so much more. It is a wonderful software that facilitates the lesson for a teacher because once done it’s just a click away from changing the subject. PowerPoint it extremely beneficial to visual learning that have difficulty focusing on a topic because as mentioned before PowerPoint has more of a video effect rather than reading straight out of a book or using a regular whiteboard.

One great tool that I learned in this chapter was Digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is a tool that can be used in school from K-12, it’s a way to use written text and create a story presentation with audio, video, and realistic text. “Digital storytelling connects directly to the history/social studies and language arts curricula” (Transforming, 2013). For instance in a language arts class it can be used to allow students to use their imagination to created stories but in the end actually bring these characters to life with digital storytelling and, not only does it have to stay in text but students can actually narrate the story as well to and more excitement to the story.

Photo taking and Movie Making is something that I personally as a future educator would love to implement in the classroom. My last high school year one of my classes was a video tech class in which we would learn how to use cameras, microphones, windows movie maker and so much more. From first-hand experience, I can personally tell you it is a great way for students to work in groups and learn from one another. Using movie making allows students to express themselves and be creative when creating these videos. Once completed each group would then be able to show the final completion and this way learn about a different topic from each one.

 

 

Resources:

Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.