Digital Media & My Experiences
Digital media is changing the way we teach and learn. Many of the new digital mediums offer teachers and students more engaging and creative ways to study course material.
I am a strong proponent of digital media. Whenever I can incorporate technology and new mediums I take full advantage. Since starting out five years ago I have converted all of my overhead notes to PowerPoint. I find that students are far more receptive to the content when it is presented in a more visually aesthetic way. More recently I have been changing class projects so that they take advantage of technology and the new mediums. Rarely do I have students complete poster projects. Instead I have them create Glogs or Prezi’s. These new mediums are more engaging for students and allow them to use their technological abilities.
Aside from using digital media, I support students by providing them with opportunities to practice using these mediums. Often extra time in the computer lab or library is needed to work with these new mediums. I also try to have “experts” assist in instruction when I am using mediums which may be new to me. Furthermore, I try to use mediums which I know will draw on students’ prior knowledge of technology.
Commitment to Access
After completing the week’s readings it is obvious that access deals with a variety of things including intellectual, physical and digital access.
As a teacher I am committed to providing students with access to resources of all different formats and mediums. The resources should be easily accessible to students within the class, library school or online. This means that clear rules and guidelines need to be implemented to ensure that students know who, what where, why and how a resource can be accessed.
By providing students with access to a variety of different resources which can be easily located and used, students’ learning benefits greatly.
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