Digital Blog Post #E

    The first topic I would like to reflect on is multimedia technology. While their is no replacement for a teacher or lectures, multimedia technology allows for a higher amount of learning. More and more teachers are understanding that each student has his/her own way of learning. With this comes the need to teach to those learning styles, yet not hinder one student or another. Multimedia technology is an excellent solution to that as it allows the use of all or most learning styles at one time. Furthermore, many people believe that students learn more when multiple learning styles are used. Multimedia is also beneficial in that area. 

    The second thing I would like to reflect on is pausing and rewinding videos. The book says that teachers should frequently pause and rewind parts of a video to promote a better understanding of the information. Personally, my knowlage of a subject has never been enhanced by a teacher pausing, reflecting on, or repeating part of a video while we are watching. In some cases it is beneficial for the teacher to replay certain parts of the movie after watching it all the way through once. While the book says pausing/rewinding the video increases the understanding of the subject, I, and nearly everyone I went to school with both in high school and college, find it much more disruptive if the teacher is interrupting the video. If the video is simply allowed to play students are watching the video, and, while they might not quite catch every piece of information, they are able to understand what is going on and are following the movie. If the video is being paused, students are no longer focused on the video and in many cases will forget what exactly was happening just before it was paused, resulting in confusion, causing them to miss more information. This is even more common in videos that the teacher is rewinding. Below you can see a video of what pausing a video is like for students.

    The third and last thing I would like to reflect on is the idea of student made video. Student made videos are a great way to inspire creativity as well as learning. In order for the students to accurately present information in their film they must have a great understanding of the subject. The creative side of videos allows the students to see and show how many ways the information can either be presented or represented. Student films also cross over with other subjects such as technology and the arts in older grades were students can learn how to edit their videos through video editing software. You can view a list of video editing software here.

Works Cited:

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.

 Paxton, S. (2016, April 03). Paused Videos. Retrieved April 03, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckqSZczDvNM 

 Top 15 Best Video Editing Software in 2015 (Free and Paid). (2015). Retrieved April 03, 2016, from http://beebom.com/2015/02/best-video-editing-software