Why use multi-media in the classroom?
(Facilitator: Michelle Morley)
Why Use Multi-Media
- Teachers or Students can create a video
- Illustrate a concept
- Retell events in History (History Rocks)
- Create a Book Trailer
- Using Youtube to make quick lab videos
- Turning Math Problems in Math Video Problems
- Try Glogster – Show What you Know
- Creating Virtual posters – examples
Visual & Audio Tools – Web Resources
- Magisto – Create a video in minutes
- Animoto – Video slide showmaker (Free vers. 30 sec videos)
- FlixTime – Video Slideshows
- Dvolver – moviemaker – explain to another character how you can figure out the area of a circle
- FileLab- online version of Moviemaker (works on Windows only)
- Viddix - video and text
- VuVox – Create a Math Collage to show your understanding of a concept
- GoAnimate – animated videos
- Voki - Speaking Avatars
- Edu Glogster – give students an opportunity to show what they know by creating a Glogster
Audio
- Voisse – record & share your voice with a photo
- Vocaroo – Record you voice & post to your blog
- Audioboo – Record your voice
- Vocaroo – Simple to use & easy to add to your blog
- Stripping the Audio from Youtube Videos
Visual
- Wordle- Tell what you know with words
- 4 other tools similar to Wordle
- Use Superstickies to act as a math journal – create & share to computer – add to blog
- Project Draw – virtual drawing space
- Yodio – Math Example
- Online Chart Tool – display data
- Gliffy – compare and contrast attributes
- Picnik - label photos
- Bubblesnaps – add speech bubbles to images
- Speaking Image – label Photos
- Gickr – photos in motion
- BigHugeLabs – let students choose how they express their math thinking in a Poster
- Redkid - sign generator
- Art Pad create a drawing and use snipping tool to save pictures and post on your blog
Comic & Book Creators
- Comix - Create cartoon math strips
- Comic Creator – give students a creative outlet to share how they feel about mathematics
School-based Software
- Photostory
- Audacity (Audio) Can save as mp3 and upload to web-based applications
- SMART Recorder – Capture screen casts and share with students through School Connect
Useful Equipment: (not required but useful) Digital Camera, Pocket Video Recorder, IPVO Doc Camera, microphones
Assessment
Think outside the box on how you assess student learning ….
Show What you Know – through multi-media
- Think, Communicate, Justify – Examples