Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Slideshow and Voicethread
I see where this project could be quite useful in the classroom. Often, at the beginning of a new semester, I have students present "get to know you"-type speeches where they have to include information about themselves and what's important to them. As a speech, this causes quite a bit of anxiety for students at the beginning of a new term. If, instead, we were to create slideshows with students giving their own narration and linked them all online, it would alleviate much of that problem.
I felt a little like I was creating my own episode of Pop-up Video (which I have always found entertaining), when I was commenting on individual moments of the slideshow. This is a project which would really allow students' creativity and originality to come through. I am excited to try something like this.
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I agree on two things from your post:
ReplyDelete1. Pop-up Video was amazing! I used to love that show. It is the only reason I know when the doorbell was invented - 1831 if you wanted to know.
2. That this would be a great way to begin a speech course. They would have to do the work and give the information, but they wouldn't necessarily have to get up in front of a class until they had gotten more comfortable with their classmates.