Reference Materials
Roblyer and Doering
(2012) discuss reference materials and websites available to educators to develop
multimedia projects in the classroom (p.176). The graphic images and programs to
be used by teachers to aid in cognitive development abound on the internet, but
educators and students should avoid copyright infringement (Roblyer &
Doering, 2012, p.180). Many websites offer educators complete lesson plans,
graphic images, themes, or various other teaching aids to their prospective
classroom. The reference materials could be in the form of clip art, and as
Roblyer and Doering (2012) state, “Illustrations can demonstrate or support a
point that may be difficult to express with text alone” (p.180). The ability for
educators to find reference software to use in the educational setting is
readily available on the internet, and the Teaching
Heart link is for educators in K-3 classrooms.
Teaching Heart
Audio & Video Production and Editing Software - Power Director 13
This
software would allow educators to engage students in projects to create
educational videos, and as Roblyer and Doering (2012) state, “Placing students in the role of
designer/developer is a path to achieving several 21st Century
Skills…” (p.193). Power Director 13 uses
templates to create easy to follow steps for the video editing beginner. The
other advantage to this program is the scalability of the software to permit experienced
users to create and develop their own projects with advanced editing tools. The
ability to collaborate with other participants in projects can be achieved
through cloud storage and projects can be viewed on multiple devices. One use of this software would be to have
students partner and create projects together, and Robyler and Doering (2012) refer
to studies that reveal better student engagement when the students created
historical documentaries (p.193). My idea is to have one student be a reporter
and the other a historical figure appropriate to class information. The projects
could be a news station covering important information from a historical
timeline creating an in depth and on the scene interview. The final part of the
project for the student is to present their video to the class, and have the
best interview video win a journalism award. There might be a future Pulitzer
Prize winning investigative reporter sitting in a chair right in front of me!
The link below is for Power Director 13.
The video below is a tutorial of this extraordinary software.
References
CyberLink Channel. (2014, September 19). Getting
Started With PowerDirector/ CyberLink PowerDirector 13 Tutorial [Video file].
Retrieved from https://youtu.be/PupzbUKDtEo
Roblyer, M. D., & Doering, A. H. (2012).
Integrating educational technology into teaching (6th ed.). Columbus, OH: Merrill
Prentice Hall.
Darren,
ReplyDeleteI find it awesome that Power Director 13 has cloud storage as a feature. It is stated by Roblyer and Doering (2013) that "Young people were among the first to make audio and video sharing popular." (189). The use of this technology in a class room setting, with features such as cloud storage, will most definitely keep up with today's fast moving generation.
Your project sounds like one that could greatly benefit from Power Director 13! It is nice to know that large projects like this one have been made easier and more accessible through software like this. It sounds like students would especially learn, as Roblyer and Doering (2012) say, "decision making, incorporating collaboration, [and] have real-world connections" (p. 185). All of these skills are easily done, and the technology that they would use is right at their fingertips to make such a wonderfully complex project such as this. Students could have a professional-looking production in no time.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tutorial on Power Director 13! It's definitely critical to become more proficient at the tools available for creating and using hypermedia. This makes us more critical self editors as well as more ethical in its creation and consumption (Robyler & Doering, 184).
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