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How Multimedia Supports Learning

The use of multimedia allows us access to some things that we otherwise would not be able to do/have in the classroom. Some examples that were discussed in class and I experienced in high school are bill nye the science guy, the magic school bus, and different YouTube videos. This provides students with a fun and engaging way to learn the information that may otherwise just be given in a lecture form. Another characteristic of using videos to portray information in the classroom is the ability for students to access it outside of the classroom, rewatch it, slow it down, speed it up, and/or add subtitles.

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Video recordings specifically, as what you could access from YouTube, can give you an opportunity to see things that we are unable to see in real time or with the naked eye. In class we talked about the possibility to find videos that can show a slow motion video of a horse running, allowing us to see if there is a section in their stride that they are not touching the ground. We also talked about a Timelapse video allowing us to show something that would generally take a a long period of time being put into a 5 minute video that can be shown in class. I remember watching a video of the cycle of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, which would not be possible to do in class if you had to watch it happen in real time. Lastly, we discussed the use of PowerPoint, canva, word cloud, and AI generated imagery, all helpful in our everyday classes. These are common tools that are used, which the class made me realize we rely on for much of our teaching. Without PowerPoint, and other similar tools, how would we be able to easily present information in a class? Very interesting to think about how our roles and teachers and students would change significantly without having access to resources like this.

Digital Curation and Participating in an EDCamp

This class was very insightful, I was able to take in other students ideas to incorporate outdoor education into their subject areas. As a student with a PHE teachable, I found it very interesting that majority of the inquiries were related to the importance of students participation in PHE.

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In relation to my groups discussion, on incorporating outdoor education into all subjects, it was interesting to discuss how this looks different for each subject. Specifically in regards to PHE, outdoor education can be seamlessly incorporated. We discussed in our group how high schools have even made specific elective classes for the upper level grades that is specifically related to the outdoors. My link2practice school, Parklands, offers a course that brings them on an outdoor trip, getting them to canoe, portage, and camp. They are taught the essential skills and safety protocols before, given ample opportunity to prepare. We also discussed how science classes can be brought outdoors, learning about natural while being able to actually observe and experience it rather than being in a classroom. At parklands, they did a unit on species that can be found within different bodies of water. Once they went over a baseline of information in class, they went and explored, being able to walk down to the ocean and interact with what they had been learning about. Other subjects we discussed, such as math, we had a more difficult time linking to outdoor education. We discussed the ability for students to simply be able to go outside and do work in a different setting, but weren’t able to come up with an idea as to how they could actually interact with the environment in relation to the subject.