Digital Blog Post H: Chapter 9

Here are the three most inspiring concepts, in my opinion, from Chapter 9:

1. Comparing Minimal and Multimedia Classroom Technologies
2. Strategies for Using PowerPoint with Students
3. YouTube, Handcrafted Videos, and Streaming Video Resources

Technology sure has come a long way and when you compare how it was years ago to what it now is a huge difference, especially inside the classroom.  An example of this is when I was in elementary, and we still used these old light projectors where the teacher would right on plastic sheet on the overlay and then start righting stuff with a marker; a lot of the time my teachers would constantly be readjusting the light so that the student could see the notes properly.  Now in days we do not have the sort of problems anymore, we now use screen projectors that shows directly from a computer screen, and the teacher can easily adjust the setting to where it is big enough for everyone to see.  So basically multimedia technology has improved our classrooms much more ethically, but to be fair the minimal technologies still did their jobs for that time; now I cannot help but wonder what some of the next classroom technologies will revolutionize the way we learn.

PowerPoint in the classrooms is probably not my favorite tool to use, because when teachers ask us to use PowerPoint they are usually expecting a very flashy presentation, and using all those different visual aids always confused me.  Some people might say that PowerPoint is very useful when displaying information in regards to something like a science project, but I also have found that a video can be just as informative and interactive for the viewers, and you do not have to constantly be messing around the with sound display.  I do find that PowerPoint is useful for displaying notes for a lesson because when students are done with one slide the teacher can just click to the next slide of notes and information.  I guess PowerPoint might be fun and creative to some people, but to me they often uninteresting and all of the colorful animations do not make the lesson anymore interesting to me.

YouTube videos, I see more and more teachers these days using these to aid in their classrooms to make lessons seem more interesting and fun for the students, and it often has different instructional videos on how assist students from more than one perspective.  Despite my enjoyment in watching instructional YouTube videos I really do not enjoy Streaming Videos that much since they often occur in real-time, and therefore you cannot go back and view something if you missed.  When I watch an online video I prefer to take my time and watch carefully, sometimes I will even go back to hear something again if I did not understand it the first time, so streaming videos I do not really care for because the whole the sensation of watching a video is being able to go back and watch a certain part again if we need to.

Here is I a small I made:
https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/b19ab2a6-e4c1-4ec3-9a31-93f5e70e57bc/done

References 
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.