Knowing Your Students through Multimedia Projects

1. Knowing Your Students through Multimedia Projects Presenter: Sylvester Ngoma About Me (Wordle) >>> About Me (Tagxedo) >>> CMS Instructional Technology Conference

2. Presentation Objectives • Improve teaching practices • Improve student learning • Increase success and reduce failure

3. 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

4. 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

5. Tools • Mixbook • Wordle • Tagxedo • Animoto • Photostory • Glogster • VisuWords

6. Samples

7. 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

8. 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)

9. Tagxedo • Electronic Communication by Watson • Software and Hardware by Chelsea • Symbols by Aarti • Violence by Akiyl • Software by Fay • Software by Marcella

10. Wordle • Project Ideas by Kayla • Screen Saver by Akiyl • Screen Saver by Rani • Screen Saver • Screen Saver

11. 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

12. 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

13. Other Tools • Animoto • Photostory • Bubbl.com • SlideRocket • Combining Wordle with Movie Maker • Combining Tagxedowith Movie Maker • Combining Wordlewith Photostory • Combining Tagxedowith Photostory

14. Learning Style Surveys • Edutopia • LD Pride • Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (NC State University)

15. 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.

16. FIN • c • Use YouTube Tutorials • Mixbook • Glogster 1 • Glogster 2 • Use converters • Audio Converter Example • Cardinal Principle of Effective Teaching: Know Your Students.