Blog Post #8

Part 1


Richard Miller : This is how we dream Parts 1&2
Richard Miller communicates with his viewers the changes being made in academy as well as culturally. Communication has changed we can now communicate instantly as well as globally. When teachers or students work and collaborate together they are able to visualize in an instant by producing works with print, images, and film. He works on creating a video for his students during Black History month that has all of these elements combined into one video. By doing this he enhances his students memory and aids in excitement on topics they have previously learned about. By using techniques like this, new works are becoming published to the web where they may live on forever.
Richard Miller shows a presentation created by Jonathan Harris. His stunning visual representation makes the viewer feel the energy that is being put into the whale hunt. Instead of reading through a newsletter or text, students are able to visualize and imagine themselves in the lesson. To create multimedia writing belongs to us as a culture not individually, we need to look and use this information in order to get behind it to produce and distribute new lessons globally and freely. He oversee 12,000 students, that in itself is amazing, however thats not whats most important he works with these students and departments to show the world what the university is for sharing ideas globally and effectively.
I am an English major so I found Richard Millers videos very interesting. I love his outlook on how the web is changing the way we need to write and distribute information to students as well as the world. I feel as though students, teachers, parents, and administrators need to realize the value added to humanities with multimedia. English can be a boring, bothersome subject with the right form of communication and imagination the possibilities for recreation are endless. Richard Miller says , "he foresees a time with digital composition". I could not agree more students already know how to navigate the internet, so multimedia writing will be second nature to them. I feel that students will have an easier time learning this new method than the majority of teachers will.
Part 2
Carly Pugh's EDM310 Class Blog: Blog Post #12
Carly Pugh had a lot of interesting information within this one blog post. Some information I found useful and some I thought was a little over the top. However, I agree with her on the importance of creating visual lessons for students. She hits some of the points Richard Miller has made on the future of writing with multimedia. Being an English major I found a lot of her resources and future lessons helpful in moving in the direction of writing with multimedia. I hope to add a few of her lessons into my future curriculum, like she said, the possibilities wit technology are endless!!
She says within her blog post, "I would love to have an English classroom where students were encouraged to imagine themselves as characters and their own lives as autobiographies or bestsellers and think outside the box about what major plot point could happen next. The assignment I am dying to give my students would be to re-imagine and re-write the ending of a famous story or novel. Think of the possibilities!" I would LOVE to do this in my future classroom, I can not wait! I think my incorporating lessons like this, the atmosphere within ones classroom is going to be like black and white compared to how students have formally been taught.
Part 3
Chipper
This video focuses and redefines procrastination. Chipper is "that student", the one we all fear in the future. The student with all the excuses as well as the student whose parents are way too involved. By being adamant and communicating with your students on what is expected of them will allow for little confusion on policies and future work. The student, Chipper is constantly complaining and has all of these great ideas. Through out the video one can realize how important it is to stay on track and realize that teachers have your best interest at heart.
This video focuses on two students who are frustrated about the assignments from EDM 310. It also allows the viewer to see all the many ways to make your intelectual journey a success. By following along on these websites and staying on top of assignments will allow for success. When one does not have to procrastinate and rush to finish their work, they can actually enjoy EDM310 and all it has to offer. The information provided allows students and teacher to organize their PLN's for free.
After watching these two videos I want to expand my PLN by creating videos on Literature and lessons that can be incorporated into classrooms by downloading them for free!!
Part 4

As an aspiring teacher, I became somewhat emotional when viewing this video. Realizing that Education was ranked 55 is so upsetting, without school and teaching how will kids be prepared for their future. My controlling students and maintaining a certain order in the classroom is allowing students to enjoy more out of school through technology. The jobs that these kids will have in the future do not comply with vending machine learning. As teachers it is our responsibility to solve this problem and adopt the 21st century form of learning. This quote stood out to me, "every turned off device is a turned off student". This is so true, if students are not allowed access t these devices they have no way to explore and learn new ways of internalizing knowledge. I could not agree more with the arguments being made in this video, the world is changing quickly through technology, if we do not change our way of teaching quickly we may find ourselves with out jobs in the future. Students can learn more in one hour on the internet than they can in a week with the way lessons are being taught now. "IT IS THE DEATH OF EDUCATION, BUT THE DAWN OF LEARNING."
Part 5
I joined Edmodo as a new way to communicate with future students and teachers. I have already added a few items into my library, which was an easy process. If i had students they could view what has been posted in the library for a project, paper, or homework. As an aspiring teacher I hope that by joining this site I can connect with other teachers to learn new ways of teaching and get advice from teachers who share the same passion as I do.
I also explored Animoto for education, this is an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. Animoto helps teachers to enhance their digital classrooms and bring lessons to life. This wonderful website allows for free membership, this is amazing because it offers so much for a teacher who is trying to expand and enhance their lessons. Through one of the features, Spotlight, one can give specific images added prominence and screen time in videos. Animoto also analyzes music, photos and video clips and orchestrates a custom video leaving you free to focus on the content and narrative of your video. I will definitely be putting this to use!
Animoto= AWESOME