Lynda: Educational Technology for Student Success
For the Participation option on my Independent Learning Project, I chose to be a part of a Lynda tutorial course pertaining to Educational Technology. The tutorial was titled "Educational Technology for Student Success" and was taught by a professional speaker/educator named Renaldo Lawrence. His course was designed to instruct fellow educators on how to implement technology in classrooms effectively and make the lessons engaging for students in a modern society that requires computer fluency. Throughout the course, I was shown how to create educational content for a classroom, teaching students how to properly navigate the internet, and was shown a sample of applications and software to use. Among these, I learned how to make comps, presentations, videos, and public documents for my future classroom. The critical goal is to teach our nation's students on how to be independent learners with the ever-growing world of educational technology. I think the course was extremely beneficial for me, as I was able to take good notes and listen to educational strategies from a fellow educator. His insight showed me why it is vital to capture a classroom's attention, and his creativity was memorable as I saw the various forms of media he uses for his students. I fully recommend this course to any educator who wants to prepare for their future classroom, and also for any educator who wants to improve their curriculum and class structure.
Notes:
Unit 1: The Educational Technology Landscape
- Focus on what subject I want to teach and how this can relate to that
- Re-watch the course to focus on how this media can apply to other subjects
- Inform students of licensing/copyright when using images and videos online
- Know the goals of my multimedia = Provide interactive media (Images/colors/video clips) and hone in on what skills they should learn
- Provide materials for parents that are both online and offline
- Provide instruction for parents to teach your lesson to student (if student did not grasp this in lesson in class)
- Unrestricted access for parents is more beneficial than a parent-teacher conference
- This allows your materials to be helpful for multiple learning styles
- Make students/parents aware of legal limits of online use (fair use/copyright)
- Teach and display the Data Protection Act
- Show the search tools on Google/search engine to filter copyrighted materials
- Teach students how to write an email/reach out to content owners to ask permission for using works (Images, music rights, clips, etc.)
-Keep content organized (Make a folder, make sub-folders, put similar files like PP's together)
- Format all pages/files similarly so students know where to go and find them
- Include both video and audio to make your lessons have media-rich content
- Be aware of what content will go in your materials
- Have students consume the content, have them think about what they are doing,
- Also have them make firm decisions based off of what they read/write
- Check student progress/understanding through simple quizzes
-Ex. iBook Author, Adobe Presenter, Storyline, Google Forms
- Don't overload with content, focus on what you need them to grasp
- Capture content with cameras, screen recordings, film, phones, etc.
- Upload content so students/parents can watch, re-watch to learn, and refer back to
- Email the content, post to social media, put in drop box
Unit 2: Practice Educational Technology Tips
- Create a list of links for students/parents/other teachers
- Use MW, PP, Keynote, Flipsnack, Dropbox, Animato, Edmodo, Padlet
- Split content by subject area or chronological time order
- Choose whether people can view, edit, or comment on the document
- Share links with students to help them complete their work
- Do not forget to share with parents/other teachers
-Make sure your audience knows how to find and utilize the document
- Allow students to use their devices in class to take advantage
- Let students take photos of what they are studying
- Allow students to annotate documents on MS Word
- Post/share creations and class activities on Dropbox so students can review
- Allow students to take videos of their teacher in class
- Upload videos of your lessons to Youtube for them to watch
- Include information so students can find these videos quickly
- Use Microsoft PP to make video-based presentations
- Create your own QR Codes for students to roam around and scan their phones at them to view files/videos
-Use QR-code-generator.com
- Place these QR Codes either around your room, or around the school to share your desired information
- Use the free Pro version of Google Earth to teach
- Can be used for historical locations, geography, travel, English, etc.
- Use it to create a Welcome Pack to show new teachers/students/parents around the school and area
- Use Google Search by filtering content on the menu under the search bar
- Can use audio vocals to speak into the microphone
-Google Scholar can be great for older students to search for mature articles, instead of general searches
-Can search for documents, citations, scholarly articles, etc.
- Publish student work on the app called Book Creator
- Can customize the layout, color, text, type of book, title, etc.
- Transfer book to iBooks and share with parents/students/teachers/world
- Adobe Comp CC is free to make usable and mobile comps such as artwork
- Draw your own shapes, or use the custom made options
- Can transfer your comp to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
- Explain Everything is an whiteboard tool app to show students what you want them to learn
- Draw/organize slides into either a video or a PDF for students to consume
- Export creation to your photo library where you can then share
- You can annotate, narrate, share, download almost anything
- Use Lynda or YouTube to review content and have instructions with technology
- Utilize the free tools/apps available for your classroom
- Ask students what platforms/apps would they like to use or learn with
- Ask other teachers what they use in their classrooms
- Format all pages/files similarly so students know where to go and find them
- Include both video and audio to make your lessons have media-rich content
- Be aware of what content will go in your materials
- Have students consume the content, have them think about what they are doing,
- Also have them make firm decisions based off of what they read/write
- Check student progress/understanding through simple quizzes
-Ex. iBook Author, Adobe Presenter, Storyline, Google Forms
- Don't overload with content, focus on what you need them to grasp
- Capture content with cameras, screen recordings, film, phones, etc.
- Upload content so students/parents can watch, re-watch to learn, and refer back to
- Email the content, post to social media, put in drop box
Unit 2: Practice Educational Technology Tips
- Create a list of links for students/parents/other teachers
- Use MW, PP, Keynote, Flipsnack, Dropbox, Animato, Edmodo, Padlet
- Split content by subject area or chronological time order
- Choose whether people can view, edit, or comment on the document
- Share links with students to help them complete their work
- Do not forget to share with parents/other teachers
-Make sure your audience knows how to find and utilize the document
- Allow students to use their devices in class to take advantage
- Let students take photos of what they are studying
- Allow students to annotate documents on MS Word
- Post/share creations and class activities on Dropbox so students can review
- Allow students to take videos of their teacher in class
- Upload videos of your lessons to Youtube for them to watch
- Include information so students can find these videos quickly
- Use Microsoft PP to make video-based presentations
- Create your own QR Codes for students to roam around and scan their phones at them to view files/videos
-Use QR-code-generator.com
- Place these QR Codes either around your room, or around the school to share your desired information
- Use the free Pro version of Google Earth to teach
- Can be used for historical locations, geography, travel, English, etc.
- Use it to create a Welcome Pack to show new teachers/students/parents around the school and area
- Use Google Search by filtering content on the menu under the search bar
- Can use audio vocals to speak into the microphone
-Google Scholar can be great for older students to search for mature articles, instead of general searches
-Can search for documents, citations, scholarly articles, etc.
- Publish student work on the app called Book Creator
- Can customize the layout, color, text, type of book, title, etc.
- Transfer book to iBooks and share with parents/students/teachers/world
- Adobe Comp CC is free to make usable and mobile comps such as artwork
- Draw your own shapes, or use the custom made options
- Can transfer your comp to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
- Explain Everything is an whiteboard tool app to show students what you want them to learn
- Draw/organize slides into either a video or a PDF for students to consume
- Export creation to your photo library where you can then share
- You can annotate, narrate, share, download almost anything
- Use Lynda or YouTube to review content and have instructions with technology
- Utilize the free tools/apps available for your classroom
- Ask students what platforms/apps would they like to use or learn with
- Ask other teachers what they use in their classrooms
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