Using Video Images to Introduce Pedagogical Concepts

Probably the most used piece of digital pedagogy I have used in my blogging is the use of a video. I have used many you tube clips to demonstrate the benefits of blogs, how to use a wiki and to elaborate on a number of other different topics that I have talked about. I have found videos as a great assest for this ICT’s course, in particular youtube. However in the last ten minutes I have used the website teachertube to find relevant videos that i could use in my embedded professional learning tomorrow.

The first video that I will post focuses on the use of a protractor to measure angles and to establish differences between triangles (eg. Right angled, equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles). Today I took a lesson on protractors after many explanations on the electronic whiteboard, however some students had missed out due to other schooling commitments. Using a classroom blog students could view the video below and catch up on lessons missed. I find that many of the students love to interact with technology and engage in the lesson presented on the video.



The unit of work that my grade 5/6 class is doing this term is ‘why go there’. One of the topics of the unit involved students going on a field trip and evaluating the environment at Murray Lagoon near the botanic gardens in Rockhampton. Students will be asked to make movies using the digital photos they have taken and use that movie in an oral presentation. The video will incorporate both technical and pedagogical learning topics. Students will have to be taught the basics of a digital camera and then how to use iMovie. It will be interesting to see what the students can produce.

ICT's in Action: PowerPoint

After a quiet couple of weeks on blogger I am finally back into it. It has been quiet due to the increase in workload of the GDLT course and the commencement of EPL (embedded professional learning). It has been great to get out into the schools and see the use of ICT’s in real life classroom situations. In one of the classes I was involved in the use of the electronic whiteboard helped simplify to students how o use a protractor, it was amazing to see the students so eager to engage in the technology. It is also interesting to see how ICT’s are incorporated into a unit of work.

The unit of work my class is focusing on is the ‘environment’. As part of that unit students will be going on a field trip to Murray Lagoon and will be required to take pictures with a digital camera and do an oral presentation using power point. This ties in well with the knowledge we have learnt on PowerPoint presentations and what I have learnt from slideshare. To practice putting together a PowerPoint presentation before I need to demonstrate my skills in class I have done a presentation on how to handle glass. It is very basic presentation and I would not follow it in the workplace; however I wanted to freshen up my skills in putting together a presentation then uploading it on slideshare. Here is my presentation as I said before please don’t use it in the workplace lol! Please also view the youtube clip on the do’s and don’ts of PowerPoint presentations.

Glass safety

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Uploading the presentation to slideshare was very simple and using this program has many benefits. If you are using blogs as a teaching tool to keep in touch as well as educate your students, using slideshare lets you communicate knowledge both declarative and procedural through PowerPoint form.

One question that I have is how do you embed youtube clips into the presentation. I would like to add this clip to the start of presentation as I believe it would be a good way to hook the audience. I tried to add the application into the PowerPoint software but was not successful, please feel free to indicate how to do it or how you would go about embedding a youtube clip.