Week 1 Blog
Right now I use a lot of
multimedia in the classroom. I use PowerPoint and Prezi Daily for typical
notes. We also watch a lot of YouTube and school tube videos. That are
integrated into all of my presentations. I draw models and diagrams on the
board and explain them as we go. Students will take pictures of what I have
written on the board, which I think is helpful. I also use music in my
classroom that connects to the content for example. When we are learning about
weather, specifically air pressure and density, I play the song "under pressure"
while the students are coming in, they will not get the connection until we
start talking about our content that day.
I also share raps and other songs that teachers have made about things
like the water cycle to help them remember. I have built several web quests
that include models for the kids to look at as they go through their work. I try
to do 1 demonstration related to our content each day and if I cannot find one
I will try to find one just for fun.
I feel like I aligned well with
the theories for teaching while using multimedia because of all of the
multimedia that I discussed in the previous paragraph, I did learn some helpful
tips about how to get more out of your presentations though.
I feel like I depart from the
theories and principals in the reading when it comes to using multimedia
projects. I have little to know projects that involve the students using
multimedia to exemplify mastery learning. I feel like building these projects
is something that I am not very good at and could improve upon. I would love to
have more classroom participation when it comes to completing group projects and
incorporating more multimedia may be a good way to do that.
As soon as I read the first
article about the air pump and diagrams it reminded me that I want to try and
find an interactive module that could demonstrate gas properties and let the
students manipulate it. I was able to find one right away to use in class the
following day. We were in the computer lab and I actually had to tell some students
to stop messing with the interactive model and get back to work, they were very
engaged. I also liked the fact that Multimedia projects give students a reason
to do their work. Often I feel like the kids are not motivated to do the work
and having some more multimedia projects may help.
