Knowing Your Students through Multimedia Projects

Presenter: Sylvester NgomaAbout Me (Wordle) >>>About Me (Tagxedo) >>>

CMS Instructional Technology Conference

Presentation Objectives

• Improve teaching practices

• Improve student learning

• Increase success and reduce failure

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

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

Learning Styles Surveys

• When is the next milestone?

• What are the expected deliverables?

Tools

• Mixbook

• Wordle

• Tagxedo

• Animoto

• Photostory

• Glogster

• VisuWords

Samples

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

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)

Tagxedo

• Electronic Communication by Watson

• Software and Hardware by Chelsea

• Symbols by Aarti

• Violence by Akiyl

• Software by Fay

• Software by Marcella

Wordle

• Project Ideas by Kayla

• Screen Saver by Akiyl

• Screen Saver by Rani

• Screen Saver

• Screen Saver

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

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

Other Tools

• Animoto• Photostory• Bubbl.com• SlideRocket • Combining Wordle with Movie Maker• Combining Tagxedo with Movie Maker• Combining Wordle with Photostory• Combining Tagxedo with Photostory

Learning Style Surveys

• Edutopia

• LD Pride

• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (NC State University)

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.

FIN

• Use survey websiteso CIQ through Survey Monkey >>>

• Use YouTube Tutorialso Mixbooko Glogster 1 o Glogster 2

• Use converterso Audio Converter Example

• Cardinal Principle of Effective Teaching: Know Your Students.