Reflective essay 7

Clement jean François

Reflective essay 7

 The art of storytelling has existed for many centuries and has transformed into various forms of art.  Storytelling is diverse and can be used in the classroom in many ways. There are many forms of story telling such as oral storytelling, muppet storytelling, dance storytelling and digital storytelling. The definition of storytelling is defined in many definitions, however all definitions are related to art and multimedia. Although I agree with the article The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling,  effectivenes of digital storytelling, I do not agree with its definition. I believe that digital story telling can adopt a single definition based on the balance of art and multimedia. My definition of digital storytelling is defined as art through technology. Understanding the meaning of digital storytelling will help people create new ideas to form stories that have artistic form that can reach different types of audiences. I also believe that the purpose of digital story telling is to integrate basic concepts of a lesson through technology.

The role of technology has played a critical role in education by allowing teachers and students to explore creative ways of expressing and explaining information in the simplest form. The diversity in technology is what makes sources of multimedia, such as digital storytelling, fun and attractive in the classroom. With digital storytelling, information is brought to life based the elements of audio, images and video. The effect of digital storytelling is constructive and has a big impact in the classroom, because it enhances the form of instruction for the teacher and engages students.

Digital storytelling is effective for students, because students are able to create their own story through technology. Digital storytelling will help students grasp key concepts,based on the various multimedia tools that are involved with digital storytelling. Digital story telling helps students form a foundation in media literacy which will benefit them outside the classroom. I believe that the articles on digital storytelling had good explanations on the effect and of digital storytelling. I liked the fact that the article focused on the implications of digital storytelling in the classroom and howit attracts students to participate. With Digital storytelling, students can learn principles of class lessons and the use of multimedia technology.    

Reflective essay 6

Clement jean François

Reflective essay 6

My definition of student production, is based on fundamental aspects of education that involve students engaging in specific task, in which students cultivate creativity, teamwork, critical thinking and responsibility. “Through production, students learn new and diverse tools that can provide opportunities of learning new concepts and material” (Egbert, 190). What I like about chapter seven in the Supporting Learning with Technology text, is that it introduces the concept of production not only as tangible outcomes, but as impetus such as the use of words that help explore the diversity and versatility of production. “The variety of task that are of the production process makes it easier to integrate students with different abilities” (Egbert, 185). The Scenario of chapter seven, describes a teacher instructing a media literacy unit that is delivered through the support of student production. The scenario describes the benefits and its good content for students, such as knowing how and when to use technology, visualizing and decision making. (Egbert, 185).

The opportunity of choosing methods of how a project is conducted engages students, because it allows students to have control of expressing their ideas. Students are motivated when working on projects that refer to their method of learning. I believe that student production should be mandatory for all grade levels; because students can exercise teamwork by helping one another explore the use of certain tools of technology. Through student production, students can teach their classmates, which makes it not only easier on the teacher, but the teacher will have time to evaluate students and examine the effectiveness of student production in the classroom.

Though the role of student production is diverse and versatile, student production requires specific guidelines that organizes and structures how students should be graded. I agree with the text and its explanation of the importance of guidelines; however despite group work students should be responsible for their own summaries and part in completing the project. In Ms Okeefe’s It 3210 class students, are responsible for their own weekly reflections which relate to the assigned projects and assignments. In conclusion, Student production is effective when specific guidelines are applied.