Web 2.0 Resources

    ED 505 Educational Technology

Web 2.0 Resources

 

Globster, Animoto, and Voice Thread

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http://voicethread.com/share/4730226/

 

 

 

http://www.glogster.com/mladyturner/a-little-known-history/g-6kvneuiuv8ur4nhe6h2cha0

 

 

 

The Globster, Animoto, and Voice Thread to me are all considered wonderful educational tools.  As I reflect on all three Web tools I came to understand that they are resourceful tools for educators and students.  As a teacher’s tools the Globster and Animoto can contain whole teaching units, including text, linked video, and audio. They can link to resources or assignments stored on the internet. For students both Globster and Animoto will capture student’s excitement, and engage their learning by stimulating student’s creative self-expression and provide a rich multi-sensory outlet for expression. Also both the Globster and Aminoto are fun and imaginative and stimulate integrated learning experience. The Voice Thread also provides some of the functions as Globster and Animoto but with a few differences.  The Voice Thread is an interactive tool that allows for collaborating, sharing, and commenting, it is a free program that can be operated by students and easily monitored by teachers. I like it because it benefits the classroom where as teachers and students can use Voice Thread as a storytelling tool, a deep thinking tool, a research tool, a communication tool, and even an assessment tool.    

 

In chapter 6 the authors Roblyer & Doering (2012),writers of  Integrating educational technology into teaching 6th edition discusses how today’s 21^st students are growing up in a digital world  and learning new and different ways therefore, education need new and creative ways to make learning real and significant. They define multimedia (means more than one media) and hypermedia (means linked media) of the mid 1945 to the 60’s were separated but joined over time. They both impact education through developed hypermedia interactive such as presentation software, video-based products, hypermedia programming software, audio, graphic images, text, and virtual environments.  According to Roblyer & Doering (2012), "The current widespread educational use of hypermedia systems appears to be fulfilling predictions that classrooms of the future will be increasingly multimedia environments. Educators recognize and use these systems when they see the powerful capabilities they offer to enhance classroom learning." (p.176) As a high school special education teacher I along with the general education teachers whom I work with and students whom I educate  using some of the above hypermedia programs in the classrooms and throughout the school to enhance education. For example, I help students with learning disabilities review their created presentations and help provide knowledge on creating research project. Today in this 21st century  classroom educational technology has made it possible for teachers and students to explore, communicate, and collaborate with the touch of a finger.  

In Chapter 7 & 8 the authors Roblyer & Doering discusses the history and current perspectives of education how the Internet has become more broad and evolved over time providing opportunity for education to be more intimate and personalized and more individualized through distance education. According to Roblyer & Doering (2012, "Most of us cannot remember a time when cell phones and text messaging were not the norm; when we couldn't "google" something we did not understand; or a time when emailing was not a daily activity. Technology is changing every aspect of society as we know it. The technological norms are no longer the typewriter and the telephone, but the laptop, tablet, and smart phone. Even in the rapid environment of technological evolution,   remarkable changes in communications, in particular, have come about with incredible speed." (p.204) Instructional activities have been developed using social networking and collaborative tools. This allows freedom to access information needed to empower them without having to travel. With some many advanced technology tools  such as the smart phone, iPhone, digital tables  there are applications (apps) that runs on mobile devices which has also added  to people making the choice to learn in a classroom or take the road to distance education all because of the more advanced Internet.

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— Mary Ann Turner (@LadyturMary) July 10, 2013

Reference

 

 

Roblyer, M.D. & Doering, A.H. (2012), Intergrating educational technology into teaching 6th

         edition. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill Prentice Hall.