Topic 10 (Audio and Video Technologies in Teaching & Learning. Traditional and Digital Audio and Video Media.)

This topic is related with my field Multimedia. Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally. In this field, student will learn how to produce logo, graphics, video, audio and animation. Each element of this multimedia required different software.

Element of Multimedia (Software that student used)

Text/logo/drawing/Graphic: Student using Paint, adobe photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Synfig and etc.

Video: Creative cloud software, Sony vegas, Final Cut pro and etc.

Audio: Sound Forge, Adobe Audition and etc.

Animation: Adobe Flash, Animate, Lightwave and etc.

Student Art work:

Drawing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnEFwly3sQ (Video-Student Final year project)

Audio and Video Technologies in Teaching & Learning

The importance of audio visual (AV) technology in education should not be underestimated. There are two reasons for this; one, learning via AV creates a stimulating and interactive environment which is more conducive to learning; two, we live in an audio-visual age which means that having the skills to use AV equipment is integral to future employment prospects. Therefore exposure to AV technology in education is imperative.

AV Technolog

The AV technology used in education currently is mainly the interactive whiteboard. More than two million interactive whiteboards are now installed worldwide, and this product continues to show strong growth. It is predicted that one out of every five classrooms worldwide will have an interactive whiteboard by the end of 2013.

AV technology in schools

AV technology has been used in schools for decades, but only in the form of a TV and video player to show short educational films. Now it is the computer that shows these educational films and homework is also being done increasingly on PCs.

Children learn differently and audio visual equipment gives teachers the chance to stimulate each child’s learning process with a combination of pictures, sounds and attention grabbing media. We are surrounded by audio visual equipment and children are keen to understand technology and keep up to date with applied science. Having this opportunity in the classroom helps to facilitate learning.

More and more schools are taking advantage of AV technology to teach their students. This equipment can be used to present information to students but also the fact that they are interacting with AV technology on a daily basis also makes them proficient in using technology.

Not exposing children to different forms of technology is depriving them of vital learning opportunities that could benefit them in later life for example through increased career opportunities. AV lessons should not just consist of children working in pairs on a PowerPoint presentation or rewriting a piece of work using Word, ICT should be challenging, exciting and fun.

The future of AV technology in schools

Audio-visual technologies will play a huge role in the future of schools thanks to the development of technology and the increasing body of evidence which proves its ability to improve learning and future employment prospects. The National Curriculum describes AV as something that:

“Prepares pupils to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to a varied and developing technology.”

A wide selection of AV tools make teaching and learning a rich and enjoyable experience, inspire learners with creative and innovative multimedia activities and will also save time in lesson preparation. The ability to share this information will eventually create a ‘global curriculum’

Cite:

https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/Multimedia/node10.html

http://fittingimage.ie/importance-audio-visual-technology-education-underestimated/

Topic 9 (Internet-Based Communications. Using Internet & Web and in Teaching & Learning.)

In this topic i can relate it my everyday routine task which is communicating surround me using internet through application. Through internet, i can easily communicate with my family, friend and students. I can know most of activities that their doing. For example, for my student i easily can monitor their attendances through application such as Whats App, Wechat, Facebook and Instagram. They also can easily refer to me if their got problem about assignment or personal matter. I can feel that these technologies give us more space to communicate without any boundaries and student can’t give more excuses if the can go to my class.

Using Internet and Web In Teaching and Learning

Nowadays, students are more advanced. Mostly they prefer to do something that their think fun and enjoyable. As an educator, we need to know our characteristic of students which is each student have their own specialty. As an Example 2D animation subject. This subject is based on exam but at the same time student have to create a simple final project. Mean that they’re have a theory and practical class. The students are good in practical and their using internet to do a tutorial such as Youtube and join to Forum. From that, i know my student is more on hands on. They easily can catch up the whole practical that i teach in the class. In theory classes, to get the student focus i do a quizzes online using quizizz.com. The student will be excited and willing to buy phone data to join this quiz. When using Internet i realize that my skills in teaching can variety due to student characteristic or demand. This is one of our student final year project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnEFwly3sQ

How can technology help you?

• Online collaboration tools, such as those in Google Apps, allows students and instructors to share documents online, edit them in real time and project them on a screen. This gives students a collaborative platform in which to brainstorm ideas and document their work using text and images.

• Presentation software (such as PowerPoint) enables instructors to embed high-resolution photographs, diagrams, videos and sound files to augment text and verbal lecture content.

• Tablets can be linked to computers, projectors and the cloud so that students and instructors can communicate through text, drawings and diagrams.

• Course management tools such as Canvas allow instructors to organize all the resources students need for a class (e.g. syllabi, assignments, readings, online quizzes), provide valuable grading tools, and create spaces for discussion, document sharing, and video and audio commentary. All courses are automatically given a Canvas site!

• Clickers and smartphones are a quick and easy way to survey students during class. This is great for instant polling, which can quickly assess students’ understanding and help instructors adjust pace and content.

• Lecture-capture tools, such as Panopto, allow instructors to record lectures directly from their computer, without elaborate or additional classroom equipment. Consider recording your lectures as you give them and then uploading them for students to re-watch. Studies show that posting recorded lectures does not diminish attendance and students really appreciate the opportunity to review lectures at their own pace.

So the conclusion is the Internet is an exciting resource for teachers. Using the Internet can make teachers' lives simpler and can provide more information and resources than ever available before. The Internet is a way for students and teachers to learn and to connect with others. Last but not least, the Internet can be just plain fun for students and teachers alike.

Cite:
http://www.washington.edu/teaching/teaching-resources/engaging-students-in-learning/teaching-with-technology-2/

http://www.education.pitt.edu/EducationalResources/Teachers/LEADERS/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsFAQ/UsingComputersandtheInternetforTeaching.aspx

Topic 8 (Academic Software: Graphic Software. Tutorial Software. Educational Games.)

 

As a Multimedia lecturer, most of software that we are used in teaching and learning are Adobe creative cloud. This software allow student to create logo, editing picture, create a 2D and 3D animation, create a website, editing audio, create and editing video. For my student, mostly of them prefer to do watch Youtube or join forum to do their tutorial. When i read this topic, i realize that a lot of software we can used it to variety skills and can polish student creativity more. 

Infographic

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends.

Example Of Infographic:

Visual.ly

One of the more popular ways to discover infographics, Visual.ly actually just launched a design overhaul of their website. It’s much more social and easier to share infographics. But since most of us don’t make infographics (yet), let’s focus on the killer tool that Visual.ly does offer: infographic creation.

Dipity

Want to get a beautifully simply visualization of data over time? It’s easy to use Dipity to create certain types of web content in a highly visual format. Consider using Dipity as a tool to map out the history of just about anything by creating multimedia timelines.

Infogr.am

One of the most simple tools, Infogr.am lets you actually import data right into the site and then translate it all into useful visualizations. What could be better than that? I could see this being useful for making large posters showing off attendance, performance on certain metrics, and other classroom-based data streams.

Gliffy

Want to spice up your next faculty or staff meeting? Gliffy (love the name, btw) lets you whip up flowcharts, floor plans, and pretty technical renderings with ease. It reminds me of Prezi but generates static images. Useful for presentations by both teachers and students.

Cite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic

http://www.edudemic.com/diy-infographics/

Educational Games

Good game-based learning applications can draw us into virtual environments that look and feel familiar and relevant. According to Dr. Susan Ambrose, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, this is motivational because we can quickly see and understand the connection between the learning experience and our real-life work.

Within an effective game-based learning environment, we work toward a goal, choosing actions and experiencing the consequences of those actions along the way. We make mistakes in a risk-free setting, and through experimentation, we actively learn and practice the right way to do things. This keeps us highly engaged in practicing behaviors and thought processes that we can easily transfer from the simulated environment to real life. Research supports the effectiveness of game-based learning in virtual environments—for example, according to a meta-analysis of flight simulator training effectiveness, simulators combined with aircraft training consistently produced training improvements compared to aircraft-only training .

Example:

Ports of Call. This old classic has a 3D face lift. Play this game to build your shipping fleet wisely and learn plenty about economics while you play.

Betwixt Folly and Fate. This 3D role-playing game provides students an opportunity to experience life as an enslaved house servant, a freed slave, a white woman, and a white man in 1774 Williamsburg. Culture and history combine in this game aimed at middle-school students.

HumanSim. This game allows health care professionals to practice rare, complex, or high-risk procedures virtually, rather than on actual people so they can become skilled and ready when a human really needs help.

3rd World Farmer. Run a farm in Africa against the backdrop of poverty and conflict. Developed by IT students in Copenhagen in 2005, the game continues to undergo development to keep it current. A Spanish language version was released late last year.

McDonald’s Video Game. Choose your language, then dive into this game that teaches about the harmful effects of fast food with a heavy dose of irony.

Cite:

http://www.newmedia.org/game-based-learning--what-it-is-why-it-works-and-where-its-going.html

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/50-great-sites-for-serious-educational-games/

Topic 7 (Administrative Software: Presentation Software. Portfolio Assessment Software.)

Presentation Software

It’s been almost seven years since i do and wrote on using PowerPoint in the classroom. All my slides are changing every semester which is i changing it based on total of my student in class. I choose power point because it easy to arrange the things that we want to used  in one place.

According Karen L. Smith, Slide presentation software such as PowerPoint has become an ingrained part of many instructional settings, particularly in large classes and in courses more geared toward information exchange than skill development. PowerPoint can be a highly effective tool to aid learning, but if not used carefully, may instead disengage students and actually hinder learning.

Challenges

• Teacher-centered. 
• Lack of feedback. 
• Student inactivity. 
• Potentially reductive. 
• Presentation graphics should be about learning, not about presentation.
• PowerPoint presentations should help students organize their notes, not just “be” the notes. 

But nowadays as technology rapid changing, there are a lot presentation software we can used in our class. Example:

Prezi (Personal)

Summary – The mothership of powerpoint alternatives, they’ve been around for many years. Leveraging the concept of ZOOM and transitions to new spaces on a slide, they give the effect that the presentation has not moved to a new slide.  Prezi provides people with creating better style and effect in their presentations.  Prezi uses the concept of Pathway Points instead of slides to give the visual cinematic appeal of their presentations.

Slideshark

Summary – Taken directly from the horse’s mouth, SlideShark is an app used by sales professionals and other presenters worldwide to present and share PowerPoints via their chosen devices.  It’s features include cloud storage integration, sharing and tracking views, broadcasting or presenting over the web, creating annotations on the slides, and of course presenter mode.

Powtoon – Animation Presentation Software

Summary – Probably one of the leaders in the DIY presentation animation space, Powtoon allows consumers to create presentations and videos that are animated, interesting, and engaging.  It is not difficult to learn how to use and the software is a breath of fresh air to those looking to create presentations that are different and engaging.

Keynote – Powerpoint Alternative

Summary – One of the standard bearers in the presentation software space, Keynote is meant to allow presenters to create customizable presentations.  it comes with 30 themes that you can start with and pre stock photos.

Slide Bureau

Summary – Slide Bureau is an interesting software device.  It is mainly used for iPads, but it does allow for people to create presentations that are more customized than your traditional powerpoint slide.  The interface is centered on pre-made templates but they are categorized to fit the profession and overall need of the slide. 

Cite:

http://fctl.ucf.edu/TeachingAndLearningResources/Technology/PowerPoint/index.php
https://www.customshow.com/best-powerpoint-alternatives-presentation-programs/

Portfolio Assessment Software

In my experience in teaching we are using offline and online assessment for th ae student which are conduct quizzes, midterm and final exam paper based. But in subject based on project we instruct student to submit their work through online such as create website and upload in free hosting, create video and upload in youtube. The assessments are divided by two categories, individual and grouping. The individual assessment will be evaluated based on answer scheme. But the grouping we will evaluate by rubric.

How can I assess group work?

All of the principles of assessment that apply to individual work apply to group work as well. Assessing group work has added challenges, however.

First, depending on the objectives of the assignment, the instructor might want to assess the team’s final product (e.g., design, report, presentation), their group processes (e.g., ability to meet deadlines, contribute fairly, communicate effectively), or both. Second, group performance must be translated into individual grades – which raise issues of fairness and equity. Complicating both these issues is the fact that neither group processes nor individual contribution are necessarily apparent in the final product.

Assess process as well as product

If developing teamwork skills is one of your learning objectives for the course, it’s important to assess students’ progress toward that goal. In other words, you should assess process (how students work) as well as product (the work they produce).

Process can be assessed according to a number of dimensions, such as the ability to generate a range of ideas, listen respectfully to disparate perspectives, distribute work fairly, resolve differences, and communicate effectively. Since instructors don’t always have a direct window into the dynamics of student groups, they often rely on teams to self-report via:

• team evaluations: each member of the team evaluates the dynamics of the team as a whole. 

• peer evaluations: each team member evaluates the contributions of his/her teammates. 

• self-evaluations: each team member documents and evaluates his own contributions to the team.

Assessment Methods

Traditional assessment methods such as examinations often discourage deep learning. With the changing attitude of the young generation and students with increasingly diverse background and experience entering higher education, it is important that appropriate assessment methods are used in order to meet the needs of the students.

There are many different assessment methods used in Higher Education. When deciding which assessment method to use, both the learning outcomes and the learning activities need to be considered so that appropriate assessment methods are aligned and used.

Example:

Cite:

https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/design/instructionalstrategies/groupprojects/assess.html

http://ar.cetl.hku.hk/assessment_method.htm

Topic 6 (Administrative Software: Electronic Spreadsheets and Data Management.)

In my daily task as a lecturer, i used electronic spreadsheets to record manually the attendance and marks student. It is very useful and easy to used. With  electronic spreadsheets, we just need to enter table values manually. We can record data by identifying the row and column. 

Current versions of Excel and other spreadsheet programs can store multiple spreadsheet pages in a single computer file. 

The saved computer file is often referred to as a workbook and each page in the workbook is a separate worksheet.

According to Ben Joan, The main difference between electronic spreadsheets and database management systems is their complexity. The latter is way more complex than the former but adds features that are very useful, especially when you have a lot of data.

In database management systems, you need to create the individual databases and then establish the relationships of one to the other in order to maximize its features. You will also need to know a query language, a sort-of high level programming language that is used only with databases. But the complexity is only limited to setting it up. Once you, or someone capable of doing so, has set-up the database management system, just about anyone who knows how to use a computer can use it proficiently.

Summary:

• Database Management System is way more complex than an electronic spreadsheet
• Database Management Systems can create associations that cannot be made with electronic spreadsheets
• Database Management Systems can create custom views while electronics spreadsheets can’t
• Database Management Systems are more difficult to set-up than electronic spreadsheet

According to Kelly Anthony on January 29, 2014, The spreadsheet of the future:

• is intuitive and simple to use
• is powerful and flexible
• doesn’t require any training
• is online, so you can share and access it from anywhere
• helps you manage work more productively than ever before

Cite

by Ted French, https://www.thoughtco.com (Updated February 06, 2016)

Ben Joan. "Difference Between Electronic Spreadsheet and Database Management System." DifferenceBetween.net. April 21, 2012 < http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/software-technology/difference-between-electronic-spreadsheet-and-database-management-system/ >.

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/best-online-spreadsheet