A Multimediated Teaching Experience
Tools with multiple dimensions for engagement
Let us not challenge our students to strive for greatness. Why not ourselves incur growth and increased technological savvy?
App smashing is a wonderful phenomenon that is imbuing education with new life, meaning, and avenues for exploration. I propose that we take full advantage of this for both the educators and the educated. It opens the doors for a multitude of teachable moments that will give us all major takeaways for this class and things we can tweak as we go along.
This will also provide brilliant carryover for our 4th grade students engaging in the newly implement BYOD variety of education. Let us all join efforts and knowledge to make this a success!
Potential Challenges and Requirements
I wanted to try something here that would give all of in the classroom the opportunity for growth. Textbooks, encyclopedias, and other normal resources are reliable aids. But let's embark on something fresh and create something new. The proposed method I recommend satisfies many of the requirements for classes of this nature. Trackable progress from the students and we can edit and make suggestions. Let's explore further the nuances of my suggestion
Component parts of the process
PowToon
The program I found for our classroom exploration of our coming lessons is called PowToon, which I will give a brief blurb about. It is interactive and can be of use for multiple subjects. It gives the students the ability to create education comic strips, with multiple scenarios and templates to choose from.
Voice Recording
PowToon is an extraordinarily useful app, however, a dimension of it that I enjoy is that it leaves enough to the imagination where groundwork is still necessary on the part of our students. For our upcoming lessons on photosynthesis we can require the students to record the various steps of the process in their own words, showing their understanding
Video Recording
This portion of the project requires close collaboration beyond the classroom. Students would need to pick plants together and describe each one's particular need for nutrients and sunlight.