Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Evaluating Pedagogical Affordance of Media Sharing Web 2.o Technologies: A Case Study


                I learned a few things from the article, evaluating pedagogical affordances of media sharing Web 2.0 technologies: A case study, by Kevin Burden and Simion Atkinson.  I am already familiar with voice thread because I just used it to create an assignment for this class.  Voicethread allows the user to create threads or conversations around different types of media.  The media can be images, drawings, video clips, audio files, or documents.  It is extremely user friendly and fun to use.   People can upload comments using their cell phones, microphones, web cams and many other ways.

                I love that student are able to zoom in on a type of media and then post comments asynchronously and on one single page.  This feature is a lot like Facebook and other types of social media. I also like how this can all be done privately, publicly or mixed.  The applicable DiAL-e learning designs posted in the table was fabulous.  I love the ideas that had posted there especially the narrative or story-telling design where students take on a cooperative narrative role as they comment on a video or artifact.

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