Once you've selected your photos, you can make a slide show using SlideShowCreator.
Digital and traditional visuals (i.e. posters, charts), provide many instructional advantages, including easy access. Digital visuals are easy to download and traditional visuals offer easy preparation (i.e. markers applied to poster board).
Visuals can also simplify complex information centrally displayed in the classroom for all students to view. They can also accommodate classroom brainstorming depending on lesson plan goals.
Digital visuals do have some limitations, including the cost of often bulky hardware needed to display the images (i.e. projectors, scanners, etc.). Both traditional and digital visuals require the appropriate use of white space, to avoid presenting too much information on one slide or poster.
All visuals can complement the integration of any subject matter. For example, a mathematics lesson can use digital or traditional images of graphs or charts, a language arts class can use digital images for story telling (Yang, Cheung, 2011), physical education can illustrate the correct form of exercises and a school orientation can use a digital presentation of the facility layout for new students.
Reference
Yang, R. & Cheung, C. (2011). Using Microsoft Photo Story for Digital Storytelling in the Language Classroom. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, (15) (4) p. 1-9.
Digital and traditional visuals (i.e. posters, charts), provide many instructional advantages, including easy access. Digital visuals are easy to download and traditional visuals offer easy preparation (i.e. markers applied to poster board).
Visuals can also simplify complex information centrally displayed in the classroom for all students to view. They can also accommodate classroom brainstorming depending on lesson plan goals.
Digital visuals do have some limitations, including the cost of often bulky hardware needed to display the images (i.e. projectors, scanners, etc.). Both traditional and digital visuals require the appropriate use of white space, to avoid presenting too much information on one slide or poster.
All visuals can complement the integration of any subject matter. For example, a mathematics lesson can use digital or traditional images of graphs or charts, a language arts class can use digital images for story telling (Yang, Cheung, 2011), physical education can illustrate the correct form of exercises and a school orientation can use a digital presentation of the facility layout for new students.
Reference
Yang, R. & Cheung, C. (2011). Using Microsoft Photo Story for Digital Storytelling in the Language Classroom. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, (15) (4) p. 1-9.
Hi Tim,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. I think it is important to integrate some tools that are easy to access. This would save teachers and students times. Also, it might be some students are not familiar or not interested in technology, so they would be encouraged to use it if the access is easy.