Angela's Blog

 Canva is a presentation tool I have recently been exploring to benefit myself as a teacher and students as learners. From my experience, in almost all instances, a teacher will use a presentation tool such as PowerPoint or Google Slides to present weekly content on a whiteboard while they teach. Similarly, students will commonly use PowerPoint to present their culminated portfolios or present narrated assessment. In these cases, presentations are used to educate, narrate and persuade simultaneously. The great thing about these technologies is the ability to embed media such as images, video and audio to make them more engaging and support their purpose. Other benefits of this technology is the ability to access information instantaneously if shared by the teacher. As a teacher, I would find it beneficial to upload weekly presentations into a shared space in case students have been absent from the classroom or need to revise content. I would also see the benefits in using present...

  I have been asked to reflect on how digital media can be utilised in the classroom pedagogically and how it can be shared between myself and students. I may choose to use an array of digital media in my classrooms such as audio, video and images. I think that creating, uploading and sharing audio could prove as a positive contribution to student learning. This is a media I have little experience in, but intrigued me as I think it could benefit student engagement and auditory learning styles.   Other pedagogical benefits this media can afford include: ·        Students/teacher pre-existing knowledge of audio recording (mobile phones usually have pre-downloaded, voice-recording apps) ·        Students can use as a prompt to brainstorm individually or in a group when physically writing ideas is not fruitful ·        Assist in sampling and refining speech techniques such as speed, pitc...