Ch 7 reflection

  Know what the students already know, let them explore more for themselves through this project. Inspire them to know more. Give them optimism with a topic that they already care about to make a pleasant and exciting learning environment.

Set up a technology playground can be helpful in student’s learning and exploration. It allows students to learn from play. Another way to prepare students for using technology in a project is by taping their expertise. Teachers can first demonstrate and show expectations then the students then can explore devises or technological tools.

Screencasting allows you to narrate your voice and emotion or caption through presentations that a person isn’t physically giving. Tutorials are great ways to teach through technology. It can be watched again in any location at any time. Presentations can be helped with screencasting by adding music or other additions.

 Plan out chapters think about efficiency, ineractivity, smooth voice, and clarity. Practice before recording. Record your voice. Edit out the bad parts keep it shorter. Publish and save it with the correct file size. Promote easy assess to the screencast.

Ask questions to the students to understand problems and then to propose a solution. It’s the teacher’s job to shape the students learning interest in real inquiry. Students should collect information to make informed decisions. Asking why questions help students understand cause and effect.

         Screencasting is interactive and helps the students add to their projects. The students will be able to make presentations using the voice in screencasts. Screencasts help the students add to their presentations and enables them to show their projects without being there.