Week 4

Engagement Task 1: Resizing and uploading digital photos

Uploaded images are a great tool for teaching. Uploaded images of students work and achievements would provide the students with a great sense of pride and accomplishment, digital images also make it easier for family members to show and record their childs' progress. Published digital images could also be used for classwork e.g. teach students how to download an image or published images could be used as an assignment resource.


Engagement Task 4: Digital Audio recordings
Please see my wiki to listen to a digital audio recording sample I have created. 

Here is a link to my Voki.


Engagement Task 5: Using web-based Podcasting

Podcast are a great resource for modern classrooms- through this course I am realising the importance of variety in the classroom and that there are many tool and technology stat can provide this. I have discovered that there are a plethora of podcasts freely available and that video podcasts are also possible making this technology appealing to all types of learners (audio, visual, kinaesthetic). 

The following, are podcasts that I thought could be used in the classroom:

*Images are screen shots from iTunes.


Storynory: Each podcast is an audio book and could be used for the younger students- either played out loud to the whole class when completing art activities etc. or could be listened to individually and comprehension activities completed afterwards.

Music Workshop: This podcast could be used as an introduction to music and rhythm for the younger students and would be a great way to break up more rigorous sessions of work. 

History of WWII: This podcast could be used when studying WWII. The podcast could be uploaded to a WWII resource wiki/blog/site. Students could listen to it individually and afterwards could do comprehension activities/ use the resource site for assignments etc. 

Engagement Task 7: Digital Video

I found this task quite enjoyable (not just because I got to look at pictures of my dog), I also enjoyed the creative factor. I used the iMovie application and found that it was quite simple navigate through. I have completed a multimedia degree so inserting audio, images, text and exporting was fairly straight forward for me.

There are be many uses for digital video and audio in the classroom. It allows you and the students to merge learning fields and exposes them to a connective way of learning. The digital nature of such tools also allows students to communicate with other learning sites around the country/word with a click of mouse. Digital video and audio is also an excellent presentation tool and it appeals to all learning styles, is great for improving visual and audio literacy and is excellent for hooking the students into a new unit of work.