Knowing Your Students through Multimedia Projects
Presenter: Sylvester NgomaAbout Me (Wordle) >>>About Me (Tagxedo) >>>
CMS Instructional Technology Conference
Presentation Objectives
• Improve teaching practices
• Improve student learning
• Increase success and reduce failure
Resistance to learning
• Disjunction between teaching styles and learning styles
• Rhythm or pace of learning
• Poor self-image
• Fear of the unknown
• Poor teaching or testing practices
• Apparent irrelevance of learning activities
• Students’ dislike of teachers
Responding to Resistance
• Research your students’ backgrounds, values, career goals, learning styles
• Sort out causes of resistance
• Use a variety of teaching methods
• Build a case for learning
Learning Styles Surveys
• When is the next milestone?
• What are the expected deliverables?
Tools
• Mixbook
• Wordle
• Tagxedo
• Animoto
• Photostory
• Glogster
• VisuWords
Samples
Mixbook
• Laura’s Memories
• Rani’s Memories
• Sidney’s Memories
• Kayla’s Memories
• The American Storm by Shakia Watson (Senior Exit Project)
• My Students’ SciVis Projects
• Embedded Mixbook
Glogster Presentations for Unit Summary
• Ethical Use of Electronic Media by Alexis
• Medical Imaging Careers by Marcella
• Basic Presentation Techniques by Chelsea
• Maya Angelou (Interdisciplinary Projects)
Tagxedo
• Electronic Communication by Watson
• Software and Hardware by Chelsea
• Symbols by Aarti
• Violence by Akiyl
• Software by Fay
• Software by Marcella
Wordle
• Project Ideas by Kayla
• Screen Saver by Akiyl
• Screen Saver by Rani
• Screen Saver
• Screen Saver
The First Word: IDEAL & SAFE
• SAFE by Shakia Watson
• IDEAL by Alexis Harrison
• IDEAL by Chelsea Anderton
• IDEAL by Farzaana Carey
• SAFE by Farzaana Carey
• IDEAL by Brittany Waters
• SAFE by Brittany Waters
• IDEAL by Deanca Crouch
• SAFE by Deanca Crouch
• IDEAL by Brittany Jordan
• IDEAL by Alana Luke
• IDEAL by Courtney Meeker
2. Unit Recall through Wordle
• Network Systems by Jada Brown
• IT Security by Jada Brown
• Network Systems by Maria Gonzales
• IT Security by Maria Gonzales
• Network Systems by Randy Cao
• Network Systems by Randy Cao
• IT Security by Randy Cao
• Network Systems by Sahra Mohamed
• Network Systems by Chelsea Brinson
Other Tools
• Animoto• Photostory• Bubbl.com• SlideRocket • Combining Wordle with Movie Maker• Combining Tagxedo with Movie Maker• Combining Wordle with Photostory• Combining Tagxedo with Photostory
Learning Style Surveys
• Edutopia
• LD Pride
• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (NC State University)
Introduction Activity
• In this assignment, you are asked to introduce yourself to the class through a multimedia product. Using Wordle or Tagxedo, create a screen saver that captures your learning style, your personality, your career dreams, what makes you unique, something interesting about you, your worries as a student, your fears, your accomplishments. Be sure to use at least 200 words.
• Save the file as JPG
• Open it in Movie Maker
• Add audio explaining each word. Be as funny and as creative as you can be.
FIN
• Use survey websiteso CIQ through Survey Monkey >>>
• Use YouTube Tutorialso Mixbooko Glogster 1 o Glogster 2
• Use converterso Audio Converter Example
• Cardinal Principle of Effective Teaching: Know Your Students.