Multimedia, Technology, Video Games, and Learning
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If you were to walk into my classroom a year ago, you would see students gathered together creating multimedia projects with cameras, computers, and microphones. Over the past 7 months, with the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, I have had to make significant changes to the ways that I teach. From March to June, I primarily taught... Continue Reading →
This is a project that I have assigned as an options for some of my students to complete. It is essentially a short film or video that is made up of 10-15 short video clips explaining what you are up to in your days. One of the keys to this is that the clips should... Continue Reading →
As classrooms get more and more diverse, it is important that as a teacher you have projects that are accessible to everyone but also allow students to go deep and push their learning past expectations, standards, and prescriptive outcomes. This means you need activities that are rich, meaningful, open ended, and flexible enough that a... Continue Reading →
Overview I teach multimedia production in a Canadian middle school. Groups come to me for anywhere between 120-160 minutes every six day cycle for a three month term. What I describe here reflects my learning from my own experience as a teacher and from my academic work. It may not apply to everyone is every... Continue Reading →
Multimedia, Technology, Video Games, and Learning 