Monday, June 6, 2011

Unit 3-Reflecting On What I Know

How can my students use multimedia for their projects?

According to Morrison and Lowther (2010), multimedia can incorporate text, graphics, pictures, and photographs, videos, sound, hyperlinks, and animated objects. In my preschool classroom the students uses cameras, tape recorders, and video cameras during different activities in the classroom. Beth (2010) states, “one of the great surprises of transforming the songs and worksheets into multimedia has been its success with children as young as 3 years from very varied socio-economic backgrounds as well as ESL and Special Needs”( http://www.jazzles.com/Pre_K/PreK-lesson-plans.html).

What applications are available for creating a multimedia presentation?

“With tools like Apple’s iMovie, Windows Maker, PowerPoint and other applications like Adobe’s Flash your students can easily incorporate a variety of media into a single presentation (Morrison & Lowther, 2010).

Should I place limits on how my students use multimedia?

There should be limits for preschools just because they need monitoring and supervision to complete the presentation. When working with older students the limits may be different.


Morrison, G.R., & Lowther, D.L., (2010). Integrating computer technology into the classroom: skills for the 21st century.  4th Ed., Pearson Education, Inc.


How do you know that students understood a concept?
Graphic organizers yield the best results when integrated into lesson for which students understanding is enhanced by visualizing, organizing, and depict relationships among and between concepts, ideas, information, processes, systems, and problems (Morrison & Lowther, 2010). Scholastic shows how to use graphic organizers to: help students construct meaning; can be used with any book and across all grade levels;  to use them to assess your students understanding of what they are reading: and to observe their thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently ( http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983).

How can you depict student misconception of key information?

To handle students’ misconception of key information they should be provided with a graphic organizer to find the correct information. There are so much information available using graphic organizers. Providing students with the right tools can enhance their learning experiences.

How can students capture and transfer brainstorming ideas into written thoughts?

Students can use brainstorming a graphic organizer tool that allows the recorder type in an idea of one student and creates a link and new icon ready for the next idea (Morrison & Lowther, 2010). According to Morrison and Lowther (2010), after brainstorming the students can review the ideas, modifying and rearranging them into meaning full groups.


Morrison, G.R., & Lowther, D.L., (2010). Integrating computer technology into the classroom: skills for the 21st century.  4th Ed., Pearson Education, Inc.


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