The final project for this course was done early in the course. If I only knew then what I know now! We had a weekend course with Andrew Churches and Kim Cofino. As a big part of the weekend we worked in groups to develop a visual media project. David wanted to create a movie […]
Coetail 3
ReMix and Mashup
This week I had reading to do about remix and mashup. As I read these and various other articles I was feeling overwhelmed and saturated. I know that teaching my students about remixing is something to think about in the future, at this point in my own understanding I’m not sure what second graders need to […]
Introduction to Infographics/Data Visualization
March 2 was Dr. Seuss’ birthday. It was celebrated around the world with many people reading and rereading his wonderful books. There are many great websites about Dr. Seuss. We read some of his books in our class last week and will be reading some more this week. The first grade class across the hall […]
Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling, when I first heard this topic, I thought about how my students might share stories they are writing using technology. I knew of a few online programs and apps for my iPad that I’m still learning about. I was really thrilled when I came across this site from a Diigo in Education update. But […]
Presentation Design
Learning about presentation design this week has been interesting, but not particularly relevant to what I do with with my students. I looked in my Keynote folder and found 2 presentations I’ve made to use with the faculty. In both of the presentations I was introducing technology integration to the staff. My first presentation was […]
Visual Literacy in the Classroom
This week as part of the Coetail course we were asked to read several articles about visual literacy in the classroom. Renee Hobbes in her article gives examples from kindergarten through middle school and high school of media literacy. No students are too young and we do a disservice with older students if we don’t teach them […]
Visual Literacy
Denise Hattwig gives a definition of visual literacy. As an educator of young children how do I help students to become a “critical consumer of visual media and a competent contributor to a body of shared knowledge and culture”? Maybe my first question should be, “Am I a critical consumer and competent contributor?” In the last […]