So hopefully this week in my eLearning Journey down the yellow brick road of eLearning we can all learn a bit about my hap hazard journey in using information communication technology (ICT);

Web and Multimedia as an eLearning Tool including a few Pedagogical Potentials and Multimodal Literacy

Education is feeling the full impact of multimedia teachers need to identify and gain knowledge of what, how and why we need eLearning tools, therefore as a pre-service teacher still working to get her L plates in 21 Century learning that include ICT and engage student, as well as understand each tool as separate entities.

“The real challenge before educators today is to establish learning environments, teaching practices, curricula, and resources that leverage what we know about the limitations of human physiology and the capacity explained by the cognitive sciences to augment deep learning in students,” says the study."  Analysis - How Multimedia can Improve Learning, Stansbury, Meris, Assistant Editor, eSchool News Feb 26th, 2008

Firstly I will try a few engagement activities and see how we go and then I'm going to attempt
learning how to combine audio and images with text to enhance learning and touch on why this could be significantly to learning.  How?

Engagement Activity 5 -  Image manipulation - Resizing and uploading digital photos - Oh so much simpler on a Mac

Scholar Bear

Engagement Activity 6 - Image Creation - Access and upload digital images to Flickr
 So I began the procession of creating a Flickr account, but gee the layout was nothing like the technical manual so I winged it, and was successful and uploaded a picture of Scholar Bear above on a break sorry no Tim Tams he's on a low chocolate intake initiative today.

So when I tried to upload this bear to my blog, it was a case of sorry new-be but your not linking up the right way, go back to yahoo flickr.  Mmm a change of direction was needed  so I created a new email account...........slightly concerned as to whether this activity is going to crash or succeed.....this is how we build resilience, so lets see if there is another way......some critical thinking, a little problem solving and maybe a bit more reading of the tech manual and the eLearning course Assessment Activity :)  (using my working memory)

Maybe I need to look for some embedded code?
No, I needed Google+Flickr. This was now linked and I went into flicker and clicked on share and then copied the URL and then highlighted the name of the bear and then the link tab on my blog and there they were.  Excited! I've even email shared this photo and shared it via my Google on my blog.

Quick tip: If you want to find out the HTML code on Flicker, click on the photo and then the elements :) found that one out by exploration.  (Learning through Discovery- Cognitive Constructivism)

Now I'll do that reading and yes it has helped, with these links to creative commons, flickr creative commons, "a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright".  the use of this is noted in teaching resources that are available via the Internet.

There are 5 different licence types and now I need to identify what licence, this will have to be on my to do list for further development and understanding.

Multimedia is an avenue for Critical & Creative Thinking

Critical and creative thinking
Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems. Critical and creative thinking are integral to activities that require students to think broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in the lives beyond school. ACARA 2013 p14 of 28

Learning how to combine audio and images with text to enhance learning and touch on why this could be significantly to learning.  How? 

Creating Audio

An app called Audioboo is available for Apple devices which records and uploads to the Audioboo site (it is free). In the Audioboo site, you can copy and embed code, and embed the audio in your blog. The benefit is that a mobile device allows audio recording "on the move". You will also need a software package to record sound. Learning material

The not so direct approach :)
Upload Audiboo or AudioBoom app from the app store (to the ipad/mobile)- easy as and love the easy interactive setup :)
Also gives you some inspiration on ideas of programmes and posts that you can follow :) but the downside to many to look at now will have to go back another time. There was a little interactive how to use before starting, Swipe Left to move to the next audio/podcast etc. This I liked
Now I just need to work out how to record, answered by the what happens if I touch that red dot. Done by touching red dot top right of screen.
Now upload OOps how do I find this now? click on the word Upload

Blogger note:  (Sorry quick break brain needs food - keeping in mind this activity and updating of blog has taken from 10am -2:30pm so far)  This would be a good activity to breakdown or have a PowerPoint on how to created prior.

Back to the setup -
Remember title/name mine was 'elearning student gaining knowledge to enable eLearning' or something that you will remember and  a # Tag. Mine was  #eLearningStudentDanceActivity and it  worked for me. Pick a category - I choose knowledge as that was what has been gained from this experience
Go to google and find your podcast/audio and find the element (or embedded link) then link to wiki and Blog

Audio Script for Audio boo recording

The arts offer a unique way for students to communicate and connect with their world using critical and creative thinking. They encourage the development of skills and the exploration of technologies, forms and processes through single and multimodal forms. Cognitive learning in the arts develops students’ abilities to think and solve complex arts problems with intuition, creativity and imagination through problem-solving and research skills.  QLD Studies Authority,  The Arts Learning Area,  p9
and add in tech ACARA creative thinking descriptive

Developing activity:
Student write about a blackbird and find a picture and then collaboratively create a dance piece, peer assessment through written review on there blogs or electronic journals.  See also wiki and click on Permalink at the bottom of this blog to go to podcast audio recording

                                        

Firstly I've chosen my picture from 

Google free images of dancers

Blackbird Dancer

Possible results as seen on Australia's got Talent Blackbird could be that it is used in end of year performance:

https://youtu.be/zbG2nBQfbz4

Finding avenues to engage sensory memories and link the to working memory so I can hold onto this experience as cited by Stansbury, M

Podcasting: The creation of a sound file, a recording created, saved to a computer or digital camera, mobile phone or video recorder, and shared or used as an embedded sound track on a PowerPoint. CQU Digital Tool 5 Podcasting Week 4 Digital Technologies

I've seen podcasts used in a classroom activity, where students are learning the bones of the body as part of their PE curriculum requirements for understanding the body linking this could also be used in the study of safe dance practises by firstly understanding the body.  A dance can be created, music selection and genre discussion and collaborative,  which will also helped with engagement, memory of all of the bones in the body and the use of technology.  But I would inspire them to improve on The Skeleton Dance linked to the student wiki learning space.

See, Think Wonder  could also be linked into the learning journey of the next activity where you could ask your students to put on there, creative and critical thinking hats to develop there own podcast or video of The Skeleton Dance, in the endeavour of giving the students material that will challenge, engage, create a collaborative interaction that involves exploration Here is an example you can provide them and there is also others.

Engagement Activity 7:  Digital Video

Imagine Right here would be my video but as it took to long to load I tried and alternative and loaded it to my Wikispace. It is called Second attempt eLearning Video

Creating Video using IMovie was interesting and fun, though I did have to go back and downgrade my creation form High Definition HD to an Standard Definition SD but still it took awhile to upload (approximately 35minutes).  Students would gain the ability to identify music that would suit certain types of text and what would be useful to create a climate in a movie or suspense in a story.

I'm doing this activity while sitting in the park listening to the Queensland Symphony Orchestra play movie themes, so I'm undertaking mLearning, eLearning and multimodal text interpretation related to multi-literacy dimensions and music appreciation all at once.

Pedagogical Links:     Theory -  Learning Style - Scaffold 

Learning Theories:

Learning Theory is used when planning, designing and building learning, with blended learning that includes, Multimedia avenues utilising ICT (podcasts, videos, blogs )as a platform for discussion, producing interactive web learning outcomes that can link the following learning theories.

Constructivism - 

Knowledge - through interaction and negotiation of ideas with others
How the Learners Learn - Motivation of self via goal setting & achievement

Cognitive Constructivism -
Learning process - Multimedia enables learner to learn via discovery & new learning additions.
 Teaching Approaches - Facilitation of learning through design, supportive or collaborative
Learning Design -  Blended learning - combining eLearning with instructional learning, multimodal

Behaviourism - Learning Design - blended learning task can be broken down into smaller task to meet the needs of diversity of learners to build inclusive learning and identified through correctly identifying answers to task via correct responses

Learning Style:
Blended Learning -
JISC Digital Media highlights that Blended Learning Theory links the delivering teaching and learning that involves face to face and ICT learning at the same time, as multimedia us in learning can do successfully by making the tasks more interactive and real world application.

Multimodal -
Multimedia implications enable more than one sensory mode and therefore linking executive function/critical thinking (developed in the pre-frontal cortex), critical thinking, providing the ability to deliver experiences that enable the engagement, stimulation of the the brain and developing a feeling of comfort while providing opportunities students to participate in activities challenging tasks that are the essence of Multimodal Learning as identified by Willis J MD 2011  and Stankey, Birch & Gardner 2011

Multiple intelligences and mental abilities do not exist as yes-no entities but within a continua which the mind blends into the manner in which it responds to and learns from the external environment and instructional stimuli. Conceptually, this suggests a framework for a multimodal instructional design that relies on a variety of pedagogical techniques, deliveries, and media (Picciano 2009, p.11). Stankey, Birch & Gardner 2011

MultiModal Literacy

Today, education for current learners living and learning in a world of visual technologies, electronic and digital texts, requiring ‘multi-literacies ‘ (Cope &  Kalantzis, 2000; Unsworkth 2001) Multimodal texts’, ‘multimodal discourse’ and multi-modality (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 1996, 2001, 2006)  cited by Walsh 2009.

Thus, a 21 Century learners literacy hinges on Multimodal ‘ Literacy, for making meaning of reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal digital texts.

Technological changes in the classroom from the changes to the way we read, writ and produce on screen compared with reading and writing print-based texts.

Changes to Social practises of literacy like web 2.0 technologies.

If multiple literacies (Simpson & Walsh, in press) or multi-literacies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Unsworth, 2001; Healy, 2008) are now essential proficiencies for communication in a contemporary world, the challenge for literacy educators is to consider to what extent digital technologies can be incorporated 212 Volume 33 Number 3 October 2010WALSH • AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND LITERACY, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2010, pp. 211–239 within classroom literacy programs without reducing the importance of the rich, imaginative and cultural knowledge that is derived from books  Walsh M 2015

Semiotics plays a large part in present grammar and becoming an established part of communication avenues #learning #blog (hash tag literacy) established in text messages, blogs, information technology communication where signs and symbols are a current part exploring how words and signs make meaning through study.  For example is a Mouse – rodent or computer device Taylor, D

Blog Reminder: to get to know your learners to identify which learning strategy best suits the classroom climate.  Ask the question is blended learning & multimodal learning the best for the learner in the classroom community and how can I apply multimedia in learning for success.

Tool for knowing your learner is;

VARK - "visual - auditory - reading/writing - kinaesthetic " Identify how your learners learn

(Worth doing yourself as this will identify you as a learner and thus enable you not to vear towards your own learning preference and thus meeting the need of all of you students)

The use of multimedia avenues in the classroom can also enable inclusive feelings and behaviours and enable access to learning for all (rights to and education) - UN Article 23 CQU Learning Material EDED11457


Scaffolding:
6 Thinking Hats
PMI,
YChart,







Reflection on this blog;  Well this has been a challenge from my brain and critical thinking processes to try and troubleshoot my way through tools that I've never used before.  An the self talk that came out on the blog hopefully identified that we all need a little self motivation.  I've picked up a few more multimodal literacy skills and applications of words.  Element is another name for code or embedded data and that you need more time than I currently have in my study plan to do justice to these tools.  Further learning will be to find some tools through research and application to add to next weeks blog or try and add an extra one to cover another area or engagement activity as Ive run out of time again.  Time to post, upload and save.  Happy eLearning all

Reference:

ACARA 2013,  Curriculum Design Pagper Version 3.1, Retrieved from
           http://www.acara.edu.au/default.asp,  http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/07_04_Curriculum_Design_Paper_version_3+1_%28June_2012%29.pdf

Analysis: How Multimedia can improve learning, eSchool News Daily Tech News & Innovation.    
           Meris Stansburyy, Assitant Editor eSchoool News March 26th 2008, CQU Moodle link  
           Retirved from:
           http://www.eschoolnews.com/2008/03/26/analysis-how-multimedia-can-improve-learning/

CQU, FAHE11001 eLearning, Learning Materials, Digital Tool 5 Podcasting Week 4 Digital    
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CQU EDED11457 Responding to Diversity and Inclusion; UN Article 23 CQU Learning Material
           Term 2, 2015

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JISC Digital Media, Retrived from http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/introduction-to-elearning

Qld Studies Authority, The Arts Learning Area, First Educaiton release January 2009, Extract from
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         http://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/yr10_guide_learning_areas_arts.pdf

See Think Wonder, Thinking strategies, Wikispaces LM2011-12> Home, CQU FAHE11001
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            VOL 3, 2010.p 211 -239 Retrieve from https://www.alea.edu.au/documents/item/63

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