Blackboard
Inc. (Producer). (2015). Reimagine Education [Video file].
Retrieved February 12, 2015, from
http://youtu.be/eHYRQgFvcDs
Blackboard is an impressive commercial hypermedia
product, or more accurately an adaptive hypermedia service system that I have
had the wonderful opportunity learning about. You could not say the sky's the
limit with this product, it adapts, and it is connected to an endless list of
media and across many different platforms. Blackboard is
the commercial hypermedia product I have chosen. To explain
Hypermedia is "systems in which information stored in various media are
connected (often via the Internet)-thus
the term hypermedia (Roblyer & Doering, 2013, p.173)." Blackboard is a Web-based learning management
system (LMS) engineered to support full online courses and/or provide a space
for face-to-face course supplementation. Blackboard provides many types of
tools, adaptations, and features for enriching the learning experience
(Blackboard, 2015). Blackboard
is a hypermedia product that would help me keep track of my students, their
assignments, grades, and etc. Blackboard would also help me supplement students' learning process with technology. We can be resistant to technology and be old
fashioned for so long, but now technology is everywhere, even in education. If
you can't beat them, join them.
“Multimedia literally means “multiple
media” or “a combination of media.” The media can be still graphics
and photographs, sounds, motion video, animation, and/or text items combined in
a product whose purpose is to communicate information in multiple ways (Roblyer
& Doering, 2013, p. 172)”. The multimedia-authoring product is an authoring
tool that allows students to create something from nothing; this is creation
process that requires skills, planning, and of course, time. The
multimedia-authoring tool that I have used before and still love it to this day
is Final Cut Pro X (FCP X). FCP X is a type 2 multimedia-authoring tool for
audio and video production and editing systems (Roblyer & Doering, 2013, p.
188). FCP X is a video and sound editing application for OS X from Apple, a
successor to Final Cut Pro (Apple, 2015). I would use this application to
recreate historical scenes for my history class, and/or to record and produce
videos from lab experiments that is conducted by me to help students with their
lab experiments in class, so that way, I will be supervising the students more
closely and safely while they do the experiments. Before closing, I couldn't
find any videos made with FCP X relating to education, so I'm going to impress
you with a video made with FCP X.
Audi
R8 - Made with Final Cut Pro X. (2014). Retrieved February 12, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrpzvS5Us4
References
Apple. (2015).
Final Cut Pro X. Retrieved February 12, 2015, from
https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/
Audi
R8 - Made with Final Cut Pro X. (2014). Retrieved February 12, 2015, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrpzvS5Us4
Blackboard.
(2015). Retrieved February 12, 2015, from http://www.blackboard.com/
Blackboard
Inc. (Producer). (2015). Reimagine Education [Video file].
Retrieved
February 12, 2015, from
http://youtu.be/eHYRQgFvcDs
Roblyer, M. D., & Doering, A. H. (2013). Integrating educational technology into
teaching.
Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
The Blackboard program, a type of commercial hypermedia product used for instructional purposes explained by Robyler and Doering (2013, p.174), is new to me but seems like an excellent tool that you are familiar with. The fact that it could "support online courses and provide a space for face-to-face course supplementation" opens so many doors in the education process. Would you use this in a flipped-classroom setting? You could even offer online classes in the high school environment to prepare the students for college online classes.
ReplyDeleteThats a fantastic idea! Preparing high school students for online classes, that would help the learning process for students in college using technology.
DeleteAs a student I've used Blackboard as well as Canvas and definitely find the LMS addition to be great for students. Giving students another outlet for their education through technology can definitely be beneficial if done correctly (Doering and Roblyer, 2013). I imagine as teachers we will also enjoy the perks of having another way to communicate to students, post their grades, post assignments, and have a place for discussion boards. Would you considered using Canvas or Moodle, which are both very similar websites to Blackboard?
ReplyDeleteYes I would. More Canvas than Moodle, because Moodle is open-sourced (Security Risks). But Blackboard is by far, the most impressive. Face to face teaching online, wow.. Wishing canvas has it too..
DeleteI have used Blackboard and Canvas during my college career. Most middle schools and high schools utilize iLearn and it is a great program where parents and students can monitor their child's progress. All of these programs work according to, "...the type of environment one is developing" (p. 182). I also think that these programs are dependent on whether or not teachers are willing to track grades and activities in the programs.
ReplyDeleteNice post and video! When recreating historical events would you use stock footage or film something in the field (like a reenactment)? Either way, I think it's a really interesting idea to put together videos to teach concepts to your class. Like the book says "an understanding of media basics is a fundamental skill for the Information Age." (p.184)
ReplyDeleteYes, I was thinking the students acting out the reenactment too. But to be more cost effective using film clips from historical films and then putting them together would save more time and would require much less materials. But if its copyrighted, we would have to be more careful to put down credits.
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