Thursday, 21 March 2013

resizing photos and movie maker


 

Above is an image I edited using the website, MobaPhoto. Yes I do own the coolist car!! Manipulating images in MobaPhoto reflects signs of good digital pedagogy. This is due to a number of reasons. Firstly, by using sites like MobaPhotothat allow one to manipulate images it can help students to develop their creativity and ability with visual images.
Students can engage in effective digital pedagogy by teachers manipulating images in order to influence students' thinking and feelings and/or develop students' skills. Teachers at the same time can engage their students in using a site like MobaPhoto in order to fix or retouch photographs they may have taken for a project that they are working on and manipulate these photos to show a different features and characteristics. (I would use this within a unit of textiles and fashion to create different looks to the students work). By doing this, students will be able to look back on these photos easily when they write an analysis, evaluation or reflection on their project in progress.

Additionally students are able to link their photos to a wiki or blog, providing opportunities to work collaboratively with students. Students will be able to use peer assessment of each other’s work. Providing collaborative feedback, building knowledge within the cohort of visual literacy; thereby, helping students engage in higher order and critical thinking.

 

How can you use video to create, present, communicate, summarise, evaluate?

Students are able to communicate/present their ideas or information in a video format. I used movie maker from my laptop and it is composed of some play domen me and my kids made one day while I was working on a group assignment for uni. Play dough and a camera are great when you have group work.
  This would be a great tool for differentiation and inclusion with the classroom. Differentiation for student that have trouble communicating within the class as a whole, (Oral presentation) would be able to use this tool to make a video of their presentation. It could also be used as a visual process journal of the students work. Video can be included as part of ITC from the curriculum. It is a highly engaging tool that is easy to use, and scaffolded with ease even for the teachers that find using ITC intimidating.



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