Wow, I see myself technologically developing very quickly
since this course started, I can predict and guess how developed I will be in
the end of this course!
At first I got acquainted with blogs and RSS feeds. Then I
discovered the efficiency of podcasts and made one by myself. Then, I explored the wikis and soon created mine. Tried Google docs and discovered twitter…. Finally,
I learnt about digital story telling and video production and tried them out by myself!!!
The idea of digital story telling is that students generate
a story by using a camera and shooting pictures. It is really very fun!!! If
that was fun for me I am sure it will be more fun for the kids and the students!!!
It will be very motivating for the students as they will see that they are
doing something meaningful, not only for the instructor but for a bigger
audience. The most interesting and fun part is that nowadays computers provide
variety of opportunities of creating and designing them the way you want.
Video production is
again a kind of a story telling, but here the students generate a video, they
should create a footage then they have to work on it, edit it, cut unnecessary
parts, add music etc.
This cool tools can be used for teaching purposes for sure.
For example, in a class the teacher may give the students a topic and ask them
to create a story but the most important part is that they have to use the target language… either in the written or spoken forms. The video that my group members
and I have created was a tutorial. I strongly agree with my instructor that creating
tutorials may be considered as the best way of using video production for
teaching and learning purposes. This requires a lot of speaking, the speech
should be clear in order to be understandable and very detailed.
I believe, this kind of assignments are more appropriate for
the students with Intermediate and higher levels and, to my mind, for students
who are 10 years old and more.
Looking forward to learning new interesting things and
sharing!!!:)J
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