Teach Spinn's Life in Education

Here are my responses after watching the two videos in week 7. Anthony 2Teacher One day, a telephone will be able to do all the things “smartphones” do. The intended audience are adults or people shopping for a phone. The method of being set in the past, a young girl wrote an essay which described all the functions of a current smartphone.  While she begins to read the essay, each party to hear the words laugh at her and the ridiculous sounding possibilities.  I believe the methods were effective because we do have such technology today but it plays on the minds of the past.  It was humorous too.   Anthony 3Teacher The main idea is that information online today should be shared and open to everyone in order to make better the world. The intended audience is the world of people connected by the world wide web. The method of using handwritten, moving texts and pictures was effective to keep one engaged in watching but I

I could see myself using student-created infographics at the high school level by having the students break down more complex information into a simple visual experience.  This can be used by sharing number data or information gained from reading an informational article.  There is always another way to represent the words that have been published.  Infographics can be more appealing to the eyes instead of words.  This will help to keep the attention and focus the learning.

This week’s assignments creating two different types of online presentations was exciting.  I have never used Adobe Spark to create a video until now.  I enjoyed the ease of the program in creating the separate slides and then adding the audio to the pieces.  The program itself does much of the work for you.  It was very user friendly!  Thinglink was not as user friendly.  I liked using the program but did not feel it would be such a good tool for the classroom.  Many of the searches I made through the program did not find any real useful content for my lesson.  I felt as though using that program would be more time consuming than helpful as an online presentation tool.   Adobe Spark Video would be a good tool for students to create their own projects to display their understanding from a lesson with the added benefit of adding their voice.  Many students do not feel comfortable standing in front of a class.  This tool can avoid that issue!  Spark’s video tool would be a good tool