I went to a great online meeting today with some other English and Media Studies teachers from Manaiakalani high schools around NZ. The focus was on the CREATE aspect of our Manaiakalani pedagogy.
It was interesting hearing about what other schools are doing in using various different tools and media. We learned that research showed that while in the short term recall from traditional versus multimedia creations is similar, in the long term, students retain more information from creating a multi-media object than a single media object. For example, researching and presenting via docs, slides and screencastify to provide a voiceover will mean better student retention of information than writing a document.
LEARN
I learned about a few new sites and apps which could be fund to use in creating digital learning objects (DLOs):
Canva.com - web-based design site. I will explore this another day and see what I can do with it. One school explained that students were using it to create static images.
photofunia.com - a site where you can create cool fake photos, like when you met President Obama, or whatever.
makebeliefscomix.com - a site where you can create comic strips.
break your own news - creates a fake 'breaking news' TV-type picture.
CREATE & SHARE
Here is the cartoon I created on https://makebeliefscomix.com/
On photofunia I made this picture of a fake newspaper story:
So that was fun. They really pay us to learn and teach these things. Honestly.
