ETEC 524: Plemons Technology-Playtesting Reflections

     Creativity tools are an excellent resource for teachers in the classroom. They provide the ability for students to be creative when showing their content knowledge. Some creativity tools I explored include: iMovie, Prezi, and Flipgrid.      iMovie allows for students to upload a video that they recorded. They could use a variety of tools to record the video: phone, tablet, or camera. Once they upload their video into iMovie, students can edit the video using a variety of tools. Students can edit the video to add in additional screens, such as a photograph or a text screen. This would be a great tool to use for students to create a trailer for a book, to create a video of the students completing a drama unit by creating a video of a performance, or creating a video reenacting an important scenario from history.      Prezi allows students to create a presentation that can zoom around to various content that students created. This gives t...

Folio thinking is a process of engaging in the collection, organization, reflection and connection that allows for a person to dive deep into understanding about one’s learning experiences, what they mean, and how the artifacts relate to one another. While assessments, such as quizzes and tests, can provide quick feedback to a teacher to see if their students are understanding the topics that were covered in class, they do not provide the reflective abilities of a portfolio. Portfolios not only show a students ability to create materials and show a deeper level of understanding for a topic, but it also allows for the student to reflect on their learning and to think critically about what they have learned and how it has affected them personally.  Personally, being able to articulate what I have learned and providing evidence of that learning with a collection of artifacts would be more meaningful to me as a learner than being told what specifically to do every step of the way as it...