Chapter 4 and Chapter 5
Designing and Communicating with Technologies
Learning Through Design
What is a design?
-An ubiquitous activity that infiltrates all aspects of our lives,
How do people engage in forms of design?
-writing software programs
-designing buildings
-designing a new car (and its 10,000 components)
-composing music, plays, articles, poems, etc.
-decorating a cake or home interiors (exteriors)
Computer-Aided Design Programs (CAD)
-invented in the early 1960s
- aid designers in visualization by enabling them to virtually build and then examine their ideas, and make changes in their design structural features, color, or surface texture
- i.e. Google's SketchUp
Google SketchUp
-help designers visualize the buildings or rooms they created "from the ground up"
-from 2-D shapes to 3-D objects
Other Design Programs and Software
Trebuchet Simulator Program
-enables students to run a virtual design of a device throwing a projectile before they ever touch a saw, select a counterweight, or design a trigger for an actual prototype
- i.e. Gravity-driven Catapult
Scratch
-a software that empowers users to create object-based programs that manipulate digitized video and audio
- i.e. Photoshop
iStopMotion
- software enables designers as young as elementary students to create their own animated movies and time-lapse recordings
-using Mac computer, digital camera, or webcam students can capture and then compose animations
Agent Sheets
-program designed to foster K-12 student participation in STEM fields through design of application using its technology
Designing Music with Composition Software
Composition Software
-a pedagogically powerful, elegant, and free piece of software for design music
Tune blocks
-area is the place where music chunks or motifs can be found and stored-can assign tune blocks a color or abstract pattern to help them identify one from another
Playroom
-area of the programs main window
Chunks
-groups of musical sound
Graphics
-are where the relative relationship of individual notes according to pitch, rhythm or both can be seen
Related Programs and Technologies
Music Sketch Pad
-is an online music composition environment that is designed for use by primary school children
Design Compass
-another software technology that supports students' design work and thinking
-using this software student create a log of the strategies they utilize when designing
How Can You Communicate with Technology?
-there are many ways that technology devices and Internet resources can assist in the information and collaborative work of communities
-i.e. different types of discussion boards
Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Threading- the ability to respond to messages and have those responses clustered in sequence under the original posting
- i.e. computer conferencing systems
Other Discussion Boards
-ePALs-teachers can utilize discussion through website to extend and support a variety of curriculum requirements
-voice thread-a Web-based application that allow people to hold an asynchronous conversation around media files, including photos, slide presentations, documents, and video
Exchanging Ideas Synchronously
How do you Share Information with Presentation Technologies?
Software
-PowerPoint, Goggle Presentations, Slide share, and Prezi
Hardware
-Interactive White Boards
Podcasting
-is an audio recording that is saved as an MP3 file and made available on the Internet through RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
-enables anyone to become an independent producer and distributor of audio or video content that can be offered worldwide through the Internet
- i.e. sports channels like ESPN