Day 3 Media

Day 3

Media 

Creativity 

The power of 'Create' to engage, empower and encourage critical thinking and collaboration is such a natural process. I found myself reflecting on learning I had witnessed this week with my learners.  This was in no way planned but resulted in my own child dropping his Ipod through the gaps in the decking outside my classroom while I was at a meeting.  I happened to mention this the next day to my learners, which created a flurry of discussion on how we could get it back.  A team of learners then spent their breaks coming up with a plan and trialing their ideas.  Learning from the failed attempts lead them to collaboratively create a tool, and working together they extracted the Ipod.  They were so engaged and invested in solving this problem and creating a solution.   Taking the natural curiosity and creativity I witnessed, and adding the limitlessness of creating in the digital space is an exciting prospect.   

While I have a foundational understanding of the Learn Create Share pedagogy, and am working on embedding this in my practice, I must prioritise my own learning in this area, to ensure I am not a barrier to the opportunities for success it affords our learners.

YouTube

I have already been using YouTube to share learning content with learners in the classroom, having completed a Digital Toolkit at the beginning of the year, today's content was a timely reminder of why we use YouTube - to create learning content for our learners. It was also helpful to pick up a few tips like being able to make changes to other peoples playlists by making a copy to allow changes, being able to embed directly to Blogger and removing recommended videos with a URL edit (?rel=0).

Media - SISOMO

Sight, sound and motion - a fantastic way to engage and communicate!  The Moviemaker packs are an idea I will investigate further, having previously felt the expense put this type of equipment out of reach.  Use landscape!

I am looking forward to exploring tools, such as Wevideo alongside my learners, I feel this is an area in which we will embrace ako!  I will be looking at the Wevideo Academy tutorials over the next few weeks as this is a tool I have yet to explore.

Drawing

How have I never discovered the mask image crop tool?  This session provided some great time savers as well:

PNG files - rather than search for 'transparent'

Polyline tool - double click to disengage

I attempted a Google Draw polyline self portrait (still a work in progress) and am looking forward to introducing this method to my learners next week as it fits in brilliantly with the visual arts learning we are currently undertaking. 

Slides 

Pick a Path Slides

Considering how creating in this manner links with A/O's in the Digital Curriculum was really beneficial to me. Testing/debugging/computational thinking - has reminded me to use digital language across all areas of the curriculum.

Control + D to duplicate - why have I been Control + C, Control + V all these years?!