Scenario: Interactive tours
A high school history teacher, located in the west would like to showcase new exhibits being held at two prominent New York City museums to her students. The teachers goal is to have her students take a tour of the museums and interact with the museum curators, in addition, to see and critique two individual art pieces. As a novice of distance learning and technology, the teacher has turned to the districts instructional designer to make this learning experience happen. As the ID, what distance learning technologies would you recommend where the teacher can provide the most effective learning experience for her students?
According to the media program, “The Technology of Distance Education” defines media “sharing are web sites that facilitate the sharing content and artifacts such as text, pictures, videos, presentations, and audio files.” Media sharing would be a tool for the history teacher to engage her students in a “tour” of the two prominent New York City museums where the students can explore the museums through the aspects of media sharing. In today’s society students of all ages especially high school students’ use technology like it is second nature. Thus, using media sharing will allow and require the students to learn using “effective communication requires an active audience” (2009).
Another technology that I would suggest to the history teacher is a blogging site. The objective of blogging stated by Technology of Distance Education “is to build an online community of interest around a blogger’s writing. Blogs, which are also asynchronous, may include text, images, or links to audio, video and to other Web pages.” Blogging would be an effective tool for the students to communicate and critique the two individual pieces of art. In addition, blogging would allow the students to interact with each other rather than sitting in a traditional classroom and the teacher prompting discussions.
I did some exploring on the internet using Google search where I typed the keywords “media sharing” and “media sharing sites”. I discovered a school website that has a few pages that are delegated to media sharing and multimedia project helpers. Another site that I discovered which is very similar to what I use in the classroom is Discovery streaming is TeacherTube. This site of media sharing allows the learning to come alive, in addition, to optimize the learning of distance education as well as hybrid classrooms.
Resources
Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., ALbright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2009). Teaching and Learning at a Distance: FOundations of Distance Education. NewYork: Pearson.
University, W. (Director). (n.d.). The Technology of Distance Education [Motion Picture].
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