E-Portfolio and Autoethnography

The past few weeks I have been working on developing an e-portfolio as well as an autoethnography project.  Here is a link to my e-portfolio and here is a link to my autoethnography project.  Both of these endevours have afforded me the opportunity to take some time for introspection.  I have reflected about what I have learned this year and how my ideas about education have changed.  

I feel as though have developed a writing voice.  That feels good.  It was frightening at first but now I am comfortable posting my thoughts and ideas on the world wide web.  I have much gratitude for my professors and colleagues at University of New Haven's Instructional Technology and Digital Media Literacy program who held my hand along the journey this year.  I look forward to continuing to reflect in this blog and improving my writing abilities.

Experimenting With Moovly for Content Creation

As it often goes when learning how to use new technology tools, it takes a lot of time. UNH colleague Beth Hick and I used Moovly for the first time in making our video. And although it took a few hours of playing, practicing, and revising we had fun making it. Our intent was to keep is simple yet use some of the bells and whistles offered in Moovly to make it more entertaining. 

           

Intro to the New Google Drive July 2014

A Quick Tutorial On iMovie Trailer

This week I was given the task of creating a short tutorial on an app which students and/or adults might find useful.  The first lesson I learned is that I give too much detail when describing a process. Although I know in my head that less is often more, I don't always practice that phrase. My video is 10 minutes long.  I used a Nikon Coolpix digital camera, set on a tripod, to film the iPad screen.  I have yet to figure out how to do a screencast video on the ipad, so I resorted to what I knew about the equipment I had.  I also remembered that uploading and downloading video to Youtube takes some time.  You may view my tutorial on the iMovie trailer here.

At another time I will need to trim the video down. All I can say is that editing takes more time than I often think it will take.  The purpose of this video was to teach the technical aspects of iMovie trailer.  There is the whole aesthetic side of making video content.  This is a demonstration of the technical steps involved with iMovie trailer. Here is another video which I spent more time on the creative content.  NHPS Math Online .

The research was supported by a grant from BrainPOP.

Today I am thinking in pictures...

Images from: Understanding Multimedia Learning: Integrating multimedia in the K-12 classroom

Multimedia offers exciting possibilities for meeting the needs of 21st century learners. The use of multimedia instruction can significantly enhance student learning if properly designed and implemented. This paper describes the way in which the brain processes multimedia information and the principles behind effective multimedia instruction.

This research was conducted by SEG Research. The research was supported by a grant from BrainPOP.

September 2008

Digital Portfolio Map Draft # 2 With Reflections

After reviewing and reflecting on the maps of my colleagues and my own initial map I have reorganized the picture of what I would like to include in my digital portfolio.  As is often the case when I have more time to ponder about a task the steps to accomplish the task become clearer.

After looking at both of my maps I realized an interesting difference between the two.  On the first map I was primarily responding to the ED7730 course description in the syllabus.  I was trying to create "what the teacher wanted".  In the map above I was thinking about what I wanted to create to represent myself while keeping in mind the goals and objectives of the course.  This realization is critical as a learner.  We often state that students must own their learning.  The fact that I have been given choice in what to include in the portfolio has enabled me to understand the task at a deeper level.

What Most Schools Don't Teach

Are you sure you don't want ot go into engineering?