ICT Reflective Synopsis

ICT Reflective Synopsis

"It is the world as they know it."

Technology is improving and evolving at an increasing rate. As it does, there is a generation of students, dubbed the "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001) that will grow up immersed in that technology from the beginning of their development. It makes sense that educators should use this technology to engage and capture the minds of these students, since neglecting to do so would possibly cause the students to just "go through the motions", or "tune out" (Prensky, 2005).

My School - Blog post using the Blogger mobile app

Just a quick post from the blogger mobile app... I've included a couple of pics of the school taken on the fly.

Group 4 Digital Tools

The 4th group of ICTs involves simulations and animations to present ideas and information.

This was a bit late in the piece, but I had a shot at ZooBurst to see how it would work.

Group 3 Digital Tools - Prezi and Glogster

I had a look at Prezi and Glogster as alternatives to the industry standard, Powerpoint.

I created a Prezi to present a book review.

Group 2 Digital Tools: Audio/Visual

Group 2 Digital Tools: MovieMaker

I had a bit of a fiddle with MovieMaker to create the following video:

Group 1 Digital Tools: Website use and analysis

I set up an account with Weebly recently, and had a bit of a look at the way they do things.

Group 2 Digital Tools: Digital Audio Recording

I spent a bit of time on this tool, partly because I've spent a lot of time in the music industry and one major component of this is audio recording. This is one area that's near and dear to my heart.

Group 2 Digital Tools: Image Capture and Manipulation

Group 1 Digital Tools: Blogs

Blogs are a great place to vent your feelings and frustrations, as well as a simple way to broadcast information with the world. Blogger isn't my first experience of blogs. I previously had a couple of aborted attempts at starting a blog, and I built my website on Wordpress, which is a blog at it's core.