Commercial
Hypermedia Product
Multimedia and
hypermedia tools enhance the classroom experience. There are many different
resources for middle school social science. One hypermedia source that I plan
to use is Smithsonian Education.
On this site, students can explore various history topics and different
cultures as well as historical figures. In Chapter six of Integrating
Educational Technology Into Teaching, Roblyer and Doering (2013) say that
“student learning from hypermedia varies based on the design of the materials”
(178). Even though students seemed to like the hypermedia experience in
the classroom, research states that “quantitative data revealed that more
hypermedia was not necessarily better” (178). It is important for instructors
to use hypermedia appropriately and not use it as a substitute for instruction.
Chosen
Multimedia Authoring Tool
Chapter six of Integrating
Educational Technology Into Teaching also states that “schools across the country are beginning to
use these systems to produce school news programs and to develop digitized
video for use in the design and development of hypermedia products" (Roblyer and
Doering, 2013, p. 188). Audio and video production and editing system are a
great addition to the classroom as “students and teachers are using
computer-based videoproduction and editing systems for a variety of purposes”
(Roblyer and Doering, 2013, p. 190). With the increased use of camera phones
and other recording devices, it is easier than ever before for both students
and teachers to create and share videos.
Although podcasts were
originally developed to deliver content to students, the use of this type of
hypermedia has evolved. Many K-12 classrooms now allow students to produce
hypermedia for instruction (Roblyer and Doering, 2013, p. 189). I plan to use multimedia tools to show students historical information, and I also plan to let students create their own videos and podcasts to show what they have learned.
Doering, A. H.. &
Roblyer, M.D. (2013) Integrating
educational technology into teaching. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Education, Inc.
Your two chosen technologies represent both visual and audial learning styles very well, which greatly benefits your students who learn using either of these modes. Your blog does a good job of catering to what Howard Gardner (1989) called the "intelligences" (pg. 176). You mentioned that instructors have to fit hypermedia into their curricula without letting it take them over, and I agree that using hypermedia to cater to these different learning styles is a healthy use of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that teachers must be sure to use hypermedia appropriately. Roblyer and Doering (2013) mention that we must be careful to avoid "cognitive overload or presenting information in a way that overwhelms the capacity of the learner's information processing system" (p. 177). It seems like the effectiveness of hypermedia has a lot to do with how the teacher uses it, not the hypermedia itself.
ReplyDeleteDoering, A. H.. & Roblyer, M.D. (2013) Integrating educational technology into teaching. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.