5/28/2013

Wikis and collaborative learning (Google Docs)


Descriptive Reflection:

 Wikis  and Google Docs help us to find the content we care about, Drive files will now be displayed in a clean, simple card-style. We can swipe between files to see large previews that let us quickly review and discover the information we’re looking for. And if we want to keep some Drive files on our smart phones, we’ll now be able to “download a copy” from the actions menu inside settings.

More often than not, we need to work with others to get things done. Today, working together in Drive is getting even easier with new profile pictures and one-click group chat in google Docs.


 
Students like creating a website to show and share what they are doing. The parents like seeing it too. So, wikispaces will be avery useful tool for the studes which will help them in learning.

Google Docs  is a very helpful and useful tool we can use Google Docs to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Also it is ideal for students working together on presentations and assignments so, they can work together on one document, at the same time! In addition, It automatically records who does what, so an excellent way to assess and monitor who does what.


Critical   Reflection:

Its my first time to use Google docs. I creat my account and started to explore it. I think it is avery useful application. One example of its features is safing the information and enabling people to get ther docs anywhere at any time.If my computer or hard drive were to fail, I’d be able to carry on with a Google Doc writing job at another computer or on my iPad.In an extreme case I could even get at the work from my phone.




I uploaded my important files on my account. 





Me and my group created a PowerPoint presentation and we discussed together using the Google docs comments.



   After I learned about Google docs I started to think seriously in using Google docs to save my documents and upload my important files.







Supporting teaching by creating presentations

Descriptive Reflection:
Presentation is a type of digital media for sharing information. Creating presentations by using new technologies such as PowerPoint, Prezi; podcasts; vodcasts  will make the dilevery  of the information to the students effective. Use these technologies will support the teaching and learning processes.

The challenges facing education systems and teachers continue to intensify.


Critical   Reflection: 
 I think no one these day doesn't know about PowerPoint presentations and many teacher use it to deliver the content of the curriculum for the student. But what really important (and that what I learnd in this course) is the way the teacher use the tools to make the presentation effective. Bad presentations are painful—for both the presenter dying a slow death in front of a crowd and the bored audience members who have to sit through it. I learned when and wher I should use the pictuers and which type of them I have to use. In addition to that I learned how to chose colors and when I should make headlines. I learned how to choose videos and sound and what is the best way to Embed it.

Prezi! What a wonderful program! I really like it. It was the first time I hear about it. I tried it. it was a very easy and powerful program. I told my friends about this program. I think it  is a very interactive way to present topics. I create many presentations using it. ISLAM was one of the presentations I had creates by prezi. Actually, I started thinking how I could use Prezi in duwa way. I think I could create a prezi presentation and then captivate it using Adobe captivate and add voice to it using Adobe after effects. So it will be a video!


Here is one example of my presentations creating by Prezi:


Digital storytelling


Descriptive Reflection:
Digital storytelling is a method of telling a story utilizing multimedia technology as the medium.  Multimedia can include, voice, music, text, photography and video.  The stories are generally short and powerful emotional messages written and narrated by the person or situation in process. The most important issue with digital storytelling is the quality of the script.
 In short this method of storytelling has many advantages to the educational system of our society as a whole.  New technologies and websites such as You Tube are great ways to promote you story and there is free software available for anyone to be able to capture their story and digitize it for the world.


Critical   Reflection:  
In my opinion, digital storytelling is a very interactive way to learn. Creating a story telling doesn't a difficult thing. If you want to create one you need to have many things such as: Point of view, example, emotional content, voice, pacing, economy and soundtrack. First we have to decide what the goal of this storytelling is. Then, it is better if we drew a simple thing to guide us while doing the storytelling. After that, we have to search about the pictures, sounds and videos we will need or capture it. the good designer can use many video making programs to create a great storytelling. I know how to use Movie Maker, After Effects, Premiere and iMovie. I also know how to use Sound Booth and Garage Band to improve and control sounds. After this course I know the importance of storytelling so I decide to learn more about video making programs especially After Effects and I planned to use movies to teach students in future. 

In the links below: My storytelling and the original movies i used in the video. 


In my storytelling I use these programs: iMovie, Garage band and After Effects. I take the original videos my self then I modified it using after effects then I Merged it by iMovie and finaly i create the sound using Garage Band.
  
In my storytelling I think first about the goal of the movie. Then I creat and idea to the movie and drew a simple mind map to it. 




After that I take the photos and videos. In the links below there are my orignal videos and photos before the modification.
Finally, I modified the movies and add the sound to it using iMovie and this is my final product:
 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1M92ebMBBcPeWFmLUc1djh0cXc/edit?usp=sharing