Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of image, text, speech. Discusses the use of screencasts and slidecasts as one solution and way of combining multiple media.
5. Speech Advantages Natural sounding Expressive Vary: pace, volume, pitch to emphasize points Physical cues: facial expression, gestures, posture Respond to audience Limitations Listener’s must remember Easy to overload on info Can’t pause it live
6. Text Advantages Reduces memory demands Revisit any time Distributed to mass audience Limitations Lacks expressiveness Must understand different formats: novel, newspaper, poems, reference Conventions can be tough to understand
7. Images Advantages Communicate everything at once Easily present emotion, feeling, mood, relationships, comparisons No decoding Limitations Not ideal for: philosophical, abstract Cannot communicate anything below the surface
8. No media is perfect for every student so we should always have several media options.
9. Flexible Digital Media “Digital media becomes flexible in the way the content is stored and transmitted.” “What was once permanent can be altered, removed at will, or restored-multiple times.”
10. Flexible Digital Media Digital Media is Versatile Transformable Can be marked Can be networked
11. The Power of Image + Audio/Speech Advantages of Images Communicate everything at once Easily present emotion, feeling, mood, relationships, comparisons No decoding Advantages Natural sounding Expressive Vary: pace, volume, pitch to emphasize points Physical cues: facial expression, gestures, posture Respond to audience
12. The Power of Image + Audio/Speech What are some examples of using Image + audio/Speech?
15. Podcast A series of digital media files that are released in episodes periodically via web syndication (slideshare.net/VCWebDesign)
16. Vodcast Video podcast, the online delivery of video content via syndication (slideshare.net/VCWebDesign)
17. Screencast Digital recording of computer screen output often with audio narration (slideshare.net/VCWebDesign) A recording of actions performed on a computer screen for the purposes of demonstrating a computer-based task or set of tasks to others. (slideshare.net/aldricham)
18. Slidecast a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file Slideshare + podcast (any mp3 URL)=slidecast
19. How will this technology help students learn? To introduce academic concepts To introduce technology tools To provide additional review to students Students can create presentations to demonstrate learning Students can teach each other
20. How will this technology help colleagues? To introduce technology tools To serve as a reference for tools modeled in their classroom To make tutorials easy to access
21. Steps to Creating a Screencast/Slidecast Screencasting storyboard Take Screenshots Create powerpoint Upload to www.slideshare.net Add narration www.audacity.com Download audacity Record narration www.archive.org Upload to archive.com to host Upload to slideshare.net Coordinate slides