Reflection

My view on using multimedia has changed quite a bit throughout my 8 weeks in edu 642. It all started when we simply learned what multimedia actually is.  I always had this idea that multimedia had to do with only technology but really its multiple way of interacting with things.

I really liked learning about using multimedia for an assessment too.   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. That is one of my goals for 2016, to have more multimedia projects.

One of my least favorite things to learn about in the class was the copyright, although I did like using padlet, I hate learning about copyright. I know copyright is important, and it's important for me to understand so that I can teach my students about it, I still think it's boring.

Two things that I really liked was learning how to make Gif's and using PIXLR. These are both thing that I have used regularly since we did them for this class. I didn't care much for making the info gram though.

Then we ended with Storify. I think storify is best app that I have learned about in the last 2 years. I would rank storify as almost as good as kahoot, and that's saying a lot because I really like kahoot. It was so simple to use and you can add some many different types of information very easily.

Teaching my students has changed throughout this course because over %50 of what I have learned in the class I was able to implement right away. I was also able to design lessons that I could use in my classroom and count for a grade in this class as well. I think that was the best part, learning about things that I could actually put to use.