Learning Technologies: Design & Applications

In your own teaching, in what ways do you:

• facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity;
  • In the digital film communication program, I allow them to choose the themes that interest them.
• design and develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments;
  • Students:
    • Research topics
    • Write scripts (on software)
    • Shoot their films
    • Edit their footage
    • Add titles & credits
    • Can create their own music
    • Assessment is: individual; peer; by the public and by myself
• model digital-age work and learning;
  • I have my e-portfolio and encourage students to create their own
  • I work with Moodle
  • The film program is constantly expanding:
    • This year we added animation booths; a sound studio and many more features
• promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility;
  • The types of productions that we do always have a message related to social change or awareness. Our slogan is “filming with the heart in mind”.
• engage in professional growth and leadership?
  • I am finalizing my master’s degree!!

Step 2

Learning goals in ETEC 565, in light of the competencies listed in the NETS.

• What are the key skills and approaches that you feel you need to develop to meet your goals?
  • Learn more about interactive media.
• What areas are most important to your own goals in becoming a digital-age teaching professional?
  • Ascertain theoretical frameworks;
  • discover new technologies or applications

My pet peeve: Having to use a “prescribed” technology that does not do what is needed for the learning outcomes that the students and myself have established.

What I love: Technologies, processes and pedagogical strategies that focus on the message, the content, the learning… rather than the technology.