With new technologies becoming available every day teachers can broadcast large amounts of information with ease. The use of tools allows teachers to gather, collate and convey information from multiple sources easily. Having the internet so readily available allows for easy gathering of reliable information from multiple sources and with programs such as windows movie maker and Microsoft power point we can easily collate this information into an easy to understand format. These sources can usually be accessed by students remotely and created and edited by students easily making them great multimedia tools for students to use in presentations. There are also many online tools such as Google Maps and Google Earth which can be used for students to get an up close view of certain landmarks with Google Street view and satellite imaging.
In programs like PowerPoint you can create screens that effectively incorporate colourful text and photographs, illustrations, drawings, tables, graphs, and movies and transition from one to another like a slide show. This allows for interesting and captivating slideshows which effectively convey information with the use of images and video and appeals to most of the intelligences described by Howard Gardener. Having more resources available to the student through site sound reading and video it allows the student to retain the highest amount of information possible and achieve their full potential.
Using online resources such as Google Earth, Google Maps, online concept mapping and online timelines can be an interactive and exciting way for students to learn while giving them a chance to interact with technology. Using Google Earth can be interesting for students to observe particular landmarks which they may be learning about in class and can be used both on computers and mobile devices such as phones and tablets. Students can even access Google Earth to observe sites which are not in this world such as the moon or mars as well as constellations and galaxies.
By using these tools one can gather and collate information into a reliable format which is easy to create and understand while make it interactive to allow students to emerge themselves into the information and activity and enable them to reach their full potential.
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| Eiffel Tower photo taken in Google Earth |
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| Empire State Building photo taken in Google Earth |
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| Mt.Everest photo taken in Google Earth |
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| Sydney Opera House photo taken in Google Earth |
Thanks for the info...didn't know Google Earth did galaxies as well (is that common knowledge or did you have to research it? LOL, so much for having my finger on the technological pulse) =)
ReplyDeleteI was just using the program on my computer and it came up with an option to switch to space I thought it would be pretty cool so I checked it out. It was quite interesting I think they have stitched together the 3D model using images from the Hubble telescope.
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