Media Embedding Assignment
This week's Media Embedding Assignment (EDUC511.Records of Practice) provided a meaningful application activity, a means to integrate technological tools in ways with which we may not be familiar. That is to say, we may have been proficient at creating video, voice, etc., but perhaps not familiar with TextEdit, or means to connect them... This exercise, for me, was a fun way to practice using MAC applications (I'm previously PC). Our team spent the afternoon in Paris attempting to master copy/cut/paste functions on MAC... C'etait vraiment chouette...
Merci, Liz, et Bon Anniversaire, Chris (Happy Birthday, Chris)!
Learning & Teaching with Twitter
With respect to the readings, I must admit that I am not a Twitter follower; my initial impression is that the posts seem limited; however, there is an advantage...
"The wonderful part about having only 140 characters is that there isn't much room to make a fool of yourself, and if you do, it passes quickly and no one remembers." ~Learning & Leading with Technology
The Twitter vocabulary section was particularly useful as we approach this assignment, as Twitter linguists manipulate variations of the verb: "to Tweet". So I suppose the question we will address in this section, "to tweet, or not to tweet?"... EDUC504 has taken the initiative to answer this question for us, if we value our class grade...
Cool activity! Did you use Keynote to merge the two images?
ReplyDeleteWow- I didn't know cohort B got to go to Paris! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteI loved the media embedding assignment. I thought, for the first time, that we were able to work on our own to learn something. We didn't receive a lecture about what to do, but were simply told of where we could find the directions. Because of that, I really learned how to embed media!
Mindy, I love what your group did with your media embedding assignment picture. I think you guys deserve an A+++ for utilizing more technology than required for that assignment.
ReplyDeleteI'm also glad that our reading covered the Twitter vocabulary. I don't know about you, but knowing some Twitter lingo made Friday's class run a little more smoothly for me.
-Stephanie
Mindy,
ReplyDeleteI love your group photo! Did you customize the photo for each person (i.e-science background for Chris?). We definitely ended up with mugshots on a white background (my face also looked bright yellow because of the lighting!) I'm glad the reading introduced us to Twitter as well-I'm actually finding it pretty easy now (although extremely distracting).
Danielle
Hi Mindy! :) Love the photo of your group... we definitely weren't that creative. Also, I agree with you that the Twitter vocab was useful in class on Friday. I haven't played with Twitter much, but I'm sure that as we are required to use it more, the lingo will come in handy!
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