Embedded Task 2

Welly welly well, I am starting to see the forest through the trees.

I have tried several of the platforms in this Embedded task, and have found some appeal to my sense of “please disregard now”. I have not thrown them out completely but some are frustrating, especially those with less than friendly tutorials handy………… I am thinking of scratch info which is the embedded dance floor image with the two foxes or cats below (press the flag in the top corner to make the animal walk). I also touched on several other image manipulators, these include think link (see below), gap minder ( I need to spend a lot of time in this one), storyboard that, which is a lot of fun (see below), I even had a go at what was where which I was slightly underwhelmed with the amount of photos and ended up bailing out (my head is shaking).

I successfully embedded an image taken from my phone, please see the test for mobile blogger app in the post below, and followed that by making a video on my phone and upload to you tube and embedding that in my blog (see below). Some of these were quite wonderful to conquer as I feel they could supplement my methods of teaching efficiently. The students can either engage with the media that I bring to them or as groups/individuals they could use some of these. Students could start with the simple podcasting or you tube clips progress through the fun storyboard types and build upon the concepts. I believe more importantly; future teachers like myself have a massive advantage in the classroom if we use this technology wisely. Children want to learn but the methods used to teach must engrave into their minds.
I am one who loves books and when thinking of SAMR I can't help but feel that books are the real losers in the battle to reach children's minds. Many of the platforms enhance a child's curiosity but also play into the constant screen life of the future generations.

I made a screen cast and it was quite time consuming, it does not matter though as I will be using screencast-o-matic in the future 100% guaranteed. The embedded version seems to have gaps in the sound. I will invest in a slightly better microphone to avoid more frustration with sound.
It is easy to see the applications of this for the student to benefit, to be able to access either at home or some where after class to go over anything missed due to distraction or lack of time. The student could also present information on such a platform and present meaningful information in way that others can access remotely.
When creating the screencast-o-matic It was necessary have the images on your computer screen already and the recording area over the selected choices (see below).

Once this was done I could flick through the images as I recorded while speaking about the topics I wanted to address. You then hit the record and Vwallah.....You follow the easy instructions to just save, publish and embed. The finished product can be downloaded to your own computer or shared on social media through embedding. The website allows for you to save it under your own account.

The Substitution of the an exercise from a text book for an exercise of creating sceencast to be place on a blog under careful supervision.

For the Augmentation I could use this method to deliver tasks of different themes to the students and update them on new developments.

Modification would be through the students in each group responding by having to create their own part, in which each when watched in the correct order created a miniseries of information about a subject.

Redefinition would entail students using screenocast to educate one another in areas that they did not cover in their tasks. 

I am a little disappointed in myself as there is so much in this subject and I have missed out on being able to even master one item that was in the topic. I am at a loss as to how anyone could smash through these in a week or nine. I am constantly just trying to find the ones that will immediately help me and I chose the ones that I mesh with and give me a form of vision for my own pedagogy. Every link was a discovery to be made and I will try to return to them and I have so many of these websites in my favourites list on my web browser.
These tools can seem exceptionally daunting but once you have a go , a majority really are quite easy to get the basic functions up and running. Really anyone can do it with encouragement. We just must be responsible of what content is created and alluded to and that all rights reserved are given to the owners of the knowledge used as I discussed in the screen-cast-o-matic.

Here is the online concept mapping websites added onto wise mapping. I also threw in the What is there? application It is still trying to accumulate images and as such does not have many.




I want to understand this but for the moment This completely weird scratch.mit will have to do.




Here is my mobile video that I sent to you tube then embedded here.




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