Week 3

Powerpoint

This week we looked at powerpoint as a digital tool, which coming from an Administration position I never really thought of it as a digital tool just something that presented presentations.

I can see how this tool could be used in early phase by inserting pictures and sounds to create fun activities and the adding of hyperlinks to other pages in the powerpoint slide.

In particular we created a powerpoint document that had a picture of a cow and then added grouped text with boxes of different sounds that animal made eg. moo, woof etc. We then linked a sound that was relevant to each so when it was clicked on you could hear the sound as well as read it. We then created another 2 pages which had correct or try again on them, we added a symbol that then hyperlinked the page back to the first question if the one clicked was wrong or onto the next page for another question if correct. It was very interesting to see powerpoint used in this way and I would definately consider using in early phase as fun activities that they can relate to real life with real pictures and sounds or even as assessment tools.

Windows Movie Maker

We then used windows movie maker where at first we chose 2 pictures a fish and a field and then with a voice recorder we recorded our something about the fish etc. We then using windows movie maker imported the picture and the recording and created a small movie. With this tool you can also add text to display when playing the movie, time when pictures change and voice recording start and also add music to the pictures, text and voice recordings. It allows you to change the timeing in the tools.

I believe that this could also be a tool utilised in early phase with pictures being taken, students adding doing their voice recordings and then joining all together for a combined class movie on a specific topic being learnt.

Both of these tools can also be used to make stop motion animation either very simply with powerpoint or in more depth with windows movie maker, however with powerpoint you can just add clipart pictures to create simple ones which could be used with Early phase involvement or with multiple digital pictures taken by students then combined with music or voice recordings for older phase students.