![]() One of the hurdles an educator must overcome is her/his own fear, or unwillingness, to use unfamiliar technology. This was a hurdle I had to overcome this week myself. As with many other people, I am not a fan of the sound of my recorded voice. Therefore, I have never pursued creating my own multimedia materials. Because, all three of the projects this week involved recording my voice, I was reluctant to even start these projects this week! However, after completing these three assignments, I can see how useful they can be for students. Using this multimedia format, it allowed me to make instructional material that would be appropriate for aural and visual learners. I have decided to incorporate more self-made multimedia materials in my online courses. I loved the final products I made this week! The first project was to produce a podcast. The first thing I did was to write a script. I found this to be very helpful. I was able to read and reread what I was going to say. This allowed me to identify weak areas of my ‘lecture’ and bolster them before I ever recorded a second of audio! I downloaded Audacity to record my audio for both the podcast and the video narration. It was not as easy to use as I was hoping it could be. I wanted to be able to add music at the beginning and end of the podcast to give it a more professional feel. However, I could not figure out how to import sounds. I was only able to record using a microphone. I would like to incorporate podcasts, or audio recordings into my course materials for two reasons. First, I don’t usually have a script for my face-to-face lectures, so I’m sure some of the material I added to the scripts get left unsaid in the classroom. Second, we have many students in our department that commute to Hattiesburg from up to two hours away. This would give them a study tool that they can listen to in their car on their commute. The second project was to produce an instructional video. Again, I liked writing the script before actually recording the audio for the same reasons as stated above. I used Microsoft Live Movie Maker to make the video. This program was very easy to use. The video produced would be a great resource to visual learners. The third project was to create an interactive video using Edpuzzle. I think this may be the most useful program we learned about this week. I love to use YouTube and TedTalks in my courses. This would be a good way to make sure that the students are actually watching the videos and that the videos are being useful. I can very easily incorporate this technology in my class this coming fall semester! Overall, I’m glad this assignment made me try these new technologies. Now, that I have overcome the hurdle of trying something new, I can see myself using all of these technologies in my future classes!
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7/4/2016 12:17:00 pm
Great idea on recording podcasts for our commuting students to use. I am willing to record myself, even though I hate it, if it benefits the students. Edpuzzle might could be used for a quiz at the end of lecture to see if they understood the material just covered. I started in Microsoft Movie Maker and had to change to iMovie due to technical difficulties. It was pretty easy to use I just got frustrated because sometimes it wouldn't do what I was trying to do; may have been user error. I am glad I had to explore these new technologies. It is time consuming to create these projects; however, I think the end result would be worthwhile. It would only take a lot of work up front, the editing every year wouldn't be too much work.
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Mary
7/5/2016 01:24:04 pm
I had the opposite experience with the movie makers! I started with iMovie, because I have used it before, but I could not figure out how to import my pictures from my jump drive to our Apple's iPhoto library, so I went back to the Dell and used the Microsoft Movie Maker.
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Demetric DyAnn Williams
7/5/2016 11:29:47 am
Hi Mary:
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