{"id":244,"date":"2021-12-07T03:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/?p=244"},"modified":"2021-12-07T03:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T10:47:47","slug":"linking-assignment-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/2021\/12\/07\/linking-assignment-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking Assignment #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanya Groetchen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540groetchen\/2021\/11\/17\/task-12-speculative-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculative Futures<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love comic strips, and when I browsed through my peers\u2019 speculative narrative pages, Tanya\u2019s comic strip for her first narrative drew me into her post right away. I also noticed that Tanya used Animaker to make her video for her second narrative. Like my task, we chose to focus on personalized learning companions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also chose to make a video, but I used Powtoon, and my video has music, images and words, but not audio. Including audio in videos is always something I struggle with, so I used to avoid anything audio-related. But, I am proud to say that, this term, I have successfully overcome the fear of podcasting. However, if I needed to voice my cartoon characters, I might need to have \u201ca few voices.\u201d So, I was glad to learn more about Animaker from Tanya&#8217;s post and discover that Animaker voice allows users to create human-like voices with text-to-speech functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Pixton and Animaker that Tanya used are new to me. Still, I am very excited at the possibilities of using comic strips and cartoons as instructional tools in my classroom. Kohne (2019) has indicated that comic strips spark student&#8217;s interests in learning and infuse creativity in demonstrating learning. I believe educational comics is highly potential in allowing students to practice important language skills when sharing and communicating ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Kohnke, L. (2019). Using comic strips to stimulate student creativity in language learning. <em>TESOL Journal<\/em>, <em>10<\/em>(2), 1-5. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/tesj.419\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/tesj.419<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanya Groetchen&#8217;s Speculative Futures I love comic strips, and when I browsed through my peers\u2019 speculative narrative pages, Tanya\u2019s comic strip for her first narrative drew me into her post right away. I also noticed that Tanya used Animaker to make her video for her second narrative. Like my task, we chose to focus on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etec-540","category-linking-assignment","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}