I am not the only person who believes that technology has a
special place in education; there are numerous different blogs that are
dedicated to discussing this topic. I have decided to discuss one of these
blogs that is called Free Technology 4 Teachers.
This blog is written by Richard Byrne. Its purpose is to
discuss the free technologies that are available and useful to use in
classrooms. Free Technology 4 Teachers utilizes many different multimedia aspects
in almost every post. I have found that Byrne uses a lot of multimedia aspects in his posts, you rarely see a post that is not accompanied by some type of multimedia.
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He uses YouTube videos in some of his posts, because he
believes that teachers should utilize this free material as often as possible. Most
of these video seem to be used in a beneficial way, they enhance the post like
they should. There are a few videos in the post “A Small Collection of
Resources for Learning About Mount Everest” (posted 3/25/14). This post
discusses numerous ways in which free technologies can be used to teach
students about Mount Everest. After these methods are discussed there are
example videos that could be used, in my opinion this was a good use of those
videos.
However, there are times that this blog does not always use multimedia
in the most enriching way.
For example the post on the use of story boards, “Analyzing
Shakespeare With Storyboards” (posted 3/24/14), has a video that is the main
source of the content. It shows an example of how to create and use story
boards. I do not believe that this really enhances the post it simply is the
post. His use of this multimedia aspect may have benefited if he also wrote
more about the use of story boards and not only relied on the video.
Go check out this blog for yourself! See if you have any
opinions about it that you would like to share, your comments are always
welcome.
