Technology Annotations
Title Salient Point/Finding Implications
This presentation is design to explain how new
technologies can enhance the arena of visual organizers. A visual organizer is a way to visually
represent knowledge, concepts or ideas.
They help to: “ Relieve
learner boredom, enhance recall, provide motivation, create interest, clarify
information, assist in organizing thought and promote understanding.”
They can take many forms, including Venn
diagrams, T-charts for compare and contrast, relational organizers, story and
word webs and so on. Which kind of
organizer to use will be determined by what kind of relationship or concept
you want to illustrate.
The presentation then outlines a history of
visual organizers and then outlines why visual organizers seem to work. This seems to be because they help learners
connect the known and the unknown symbolically and intellectually.
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The presentation closes with an in depth look at a variety of websites or application which appear to be extremely useful for constructing visual organizers of all types, including concept maps, wire frames, site maps, network charts, and so on.
I think this is a very valuable presentation because of
the variety of resources outlined in the second half. I will definitely be hanging on to this one
in order to refer back to it when I am creating graphic organizers for use in
the classroom.
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Appears to have been designed by Microsoft at some point in
the last few years to promote use of their software to tell digital
stories. Has a good breakdown of how
to create digital storytelling projects on a wide array of topics and at
varying degrees of difficulty. I like
the way each project is presented with a variety of levels you can take it
to, I think this would help teachers plan differentiated instruction for
students in their class with varying levels of technology proficiency.
It describes different types of digital story including
personal narratives, oral histories, and instructional photo essays.
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Has some great activities and lessons. A good alternative to give to students who
don’t have access to Apple hardware or software at home or at their public
library but who would like to use the digital storytelling format to do work
outside of class hours.
This
document also links to a great number of other resources on digital
storytelling and therefore it could be used a jumping off point for further
investigation by a teacher interested in incorporating digital stories into
the their curriculum
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This article describes the popularity of digital
storytelling as a classroom tool to promote meaning making and knowledge
retention across disciplines at the University of Houston.
The article then outlines how this technology has been
utilized in education classes as diverse as Art Education, Early Childhood
Education, Social Science education, and so on.
Because digital storytelling can be applied to personal
narratives, historical retellings, science-based narratives, and so many more
avenues of learning, it quickly became very popular at this University.
The researchers conclude that Digital Storytelling is a
multifaceted technology tool and that it has diverse applications in teaching
and learning which are being newly discovered.
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One point
made in the article which I will take with me is that digital storytelling
can be used to take something amorphous and impersonal (like the civil war)
and make it very personal and immediately engaging. The person making the digital story choses
who it will be told, what the words and sounds and images and video will be,
and how it all goes together. This makes digital stories unique and
personalized, which increases out engagement.
Humans are interested in other humans. It is strange, but the designer’s mind
shines through this technology based format and makes the content more
humanly accessible.
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