Think
of how multimedia tool(s) (e.g., PhotoBooth, QuickTime Player, Garage
Band, iMovie, or any other multimedia tool that you have used) can be
beneficial to students with disabilities in the instructional settings.
Please (1) choose a multimedia tool, and describe (2) the student (grade, disability, etc.), (3) the subject area and specific skill(s) that you would teach, & (4) how the multimedia tool(s) that you chose can "specifically"help the student who has previously struggled without the multimedia tool(s).
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Garage Band is a multimedia tool that could be beneficial to a student. For a student in grade 8, you could use this to help them learn about linear equations (on alternate assessment). This would be for a high functioning student that could focus on a video and learn from watching. I would use this for teaching the basics and background information of linear equations. You could even have guided notes for the student to follow along with (depending on their functioning level). This would help the student because they could go back and watch the video as many times as they needed to gain the basic understanding of linear equations. This way the teacher could teach it, the same material and then have the student watch the podcast for extra help and practice. This would also help if the teacher had more responsibilities to take care of or if she was absent. Also, the student might be more engaged with the technology and learn better through a video vs. a teacher talking and explaining. I think a podcast using Garage Band is a useful tool, but it would take time to construct and make it effective for the students.
ReplyDeleteI think garage band would be a great tool to use for equations. I especially like the fact that the students can rewind the video content to help them learn along the way and if they are struggling they are able to look at the steps that are harder for them to learn. I would agree that podcasts could be difficult because the process to edit content on garage band can become very complicated to edit. Plus it would be very time consuming to properly edit material to make it effective for all students.
DeleteI think Garage Band is a great multimedia tool to help teach the basics of equations. It allows the student to learn the information through multiple channels (while looking at written notes and watching the video). I also think a podcast is a great idea if a teacher were to be absent. This would allow students to be taught by the same familiar voice and style of their normal instructor.
DeleteThe familiar voice is a very important concept I think for some of our students. It is important that they feel comfortable and that they can understand the teacher. If they are not use to the voice they may not respond as well. Also, they may respond better to an actual teacher's voice then a robotic voice like some of the videos that have already been created have.
DeleteiMovie is a great multimedia tool that could help enhance areas when a student maybe struggling. For a student in kindergarten or first grade you could use imovie to help them with sound recognition and matching words to pictures. I would use this after I taught the content first. This way it would give students a visual to help see particular words and the images that they represent so they have a tool where they can visually see it. Plus students who are in kindergarten or in first grade tend to watch lots of t.v and they are able to learn through shows. So videos using imovie would have the same effect and students would be more interested in the content. So by being able to physically see what content they are learning they are able to take that and use it in a more meaningful way and gain understanding for the content being taught. Therefore imovie would help increase performance on assignments. The only negative is imovie can take a lot of time to construct especially to make it meaningful for students.
ReplyDeleteI agree that some students may respond better to a video. If you take what a student has an interest in and combine it with an educational task in a video, you may capture the attention better then if you just try to explain the educational procedures in person. This would be great, but like you said to customize it for each individual student to make it meaningful and personal would take a while.
DeleteI really like the idea of customizing your instruction through vidoe! This way each student would get instruction catered to them and have a more enriched learning experience!
DeleteI think imovie is a great way to customize like Aubrey said so that you determine exactly what they watch to give them a visual. learning strategy. Sometimes it is hard to find a video that shows exactly the content you would like, with this you can make it suit your direct instruction.
DeleteI think that PhotoBooth (combined with iMovie) is a great multimedia tool that could help provide anchored instruction for any math concept. For this example, I will say the student is in second grade learning subtraction. I would create an edited video/podcast (demonstrating some subtraction problems) that would serve as an anchor for a subtraction lesson. This video would not only go through the steps of subtraction, but would serve as necessary background knowledge for a student to create a sufficient mental model before learning the basics of subtraction. The video could draw/use objects to demonstrate taking away numbers and completing simple subtraction problems. As a whole, the video from PhotoBooth would basically provide the student with background knowledge and serve as a point of reference for when they were beginning to explore subtraction.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! Especially if you played the video on a smart board and the kids could interact with the movie as well! Way to make math enjoyable and entertaining!
DeleteI like how you combined both multi-media tools to create something even better. Photobooth would allow you to incorporate anything that the student can relate to in your imovie. In this case math concepts!
DeleteGreat idea.
I would use iMovie for high schoolers (grades 9-12) with moderate and severe disabilities, in a MSD classroom setting. I think iMovie could be used along in anchored instruction for about any subject. For my students I would teach the basics of how to operate iMovie and given a task analysis the high schoolers would create videos for a social studies past or current event of their own choosing that interests them. They would create a simple video and we would share the video and event article during current event time on functional Fridays in the MSD classroom. Incorporating iMovie into this lesson would allow for students to make choice, follow direction in a task analysis, and use computer and technology skills both of which are high interest in the high school classroom. This even could go off of a lesson that was being taught in a general education computer class elective.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. I think this would be a great exercise for high schoolers and it would be a great way to incorporate technology into the lesson in an interactive way.
DeleteI really like your idea. I think that giving students something that they can create and show to students is a great way to get them interested in their work, as well as a creative outlet!
DeleteHaving students create their own videos is a great way to enable them to review the material and form a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts because if the students are able to create things with the information, they will learn more than if they just read over or reviewed their notes.
DeleteI would use iMovie for an elementary class, children with and without disabilities. I would use iMovie to help teach basic skills such as how to pick out your own clothes based on the weather. I would use iMovie more for an anchored instruction aspect. I would first teach the children about what the different types of weather are and then go over what types of clothes you wear with each type of weather. Then I would use iMovie to record an exercise for the kids to do. I would record a video in which I was dressed in different clothing, I would play the video and pause it after on each outfit, the children would then have to guess what type of weather I was dressed for. I could even act out different motions such as shivering or fanning myself. I would play this iMovie on the Smart board for all the children to see and once we completed the activity I would be able to see where children were still struggling. This iMovie could even be viewed on an iPad at home for additional help. This iMovie would help increase students knowledge and performance in the intended area.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have a great idea for the children to be interactive with the iMovie. This sounds like something that anyone could do for their classroom and that the students would think is fun because they would know who was on the screen.
DeleteThis idea is great and a good example of anchored instruction! I love the interactive aspect and the way you would use the video to pause and engage the students while still giving them a visual example of the skill you are trying to teach. I like the fact that you considered the option of them taking the video home so that they could utilize it across settings to generalize their knowledge of this functional skill.
DeleteI think that iMovie would be a great and easy tool to use in the classroom for any level. But in this instance, iMovie would be a great tool to use in an elementary MSD classroom, for students with autism so that they can learn basic life skills. For example, many students with autism rely on task analysis to learn how to do a task, like how to wash your hands. Usually, the task analysis involves pictures and step by step instructions, but if you were to use iMovie to make an edited video of the task analysis, not only would it be most likely more engaging to the student, it provides a model for the task, and iMovie is a easy and convenient way to create a task analysis for almost any subject. With iMovie, the task analysis for washing your hands would have video clips of someone performing all the steps in order, with subtitles and an audio overlay with verbal cues and instruction. IMovie would be a great tool for this type of work because you can easily customize instruction to whatever the child needs, you can easily replay and review it, and if you have a smart phone or tablet, the video can be played almost anywhere, even while the child is performing the activity in order to help guide them along.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a great idea for students to learn functional skills. This would be much more helpful for some students to see a good visual like this instead of reading instructions off of paper.
DeleteI think PhotoBooth and QuickTime Player would be great tools for students with disabilities of any grade level. Specifically with math. Students with disabilities tend to have a hard time with instruction given by a teacher or written down instructions. It is harder to follow and really comprehend what they are. I would use PhotoBooth and QuickTime Player by recording myself teaching a math skill like addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. This way students would be able to listen to me explain the problems and be able to watch me work them out. Students will be able to pause and stop the video at any time if it gets confusing and be able to rewind to watch it again instead of asking the same questions and slowing down the lesson.
ReplyDeleteI agree that students would find this easier than following spoken directions because they have a reference to listen back on and a visual reference to look back on for help!
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ReplyDeleteI really liked the garage band app for a multimedia tool because you can add recordings or even music to draw student’s attention. With a multimedia tool like garage band, a student with a physical disability that limited their motor functioning skills may find this app useful in any grade. For instance, a third grader could watch a presentation created by their teacher about adding and subtracting fractions without having to click to go to each slide and listen to her walk them through a problem, because all they do is watch the presentation. After watching the presentation they can go back to any part of the video that they want or keep the video on repeat as a reference when working out a particular math problem. Before having a "video" of a presentation to watch, the student may not have had a reference to help them through a problem.
ReplyDeleteGarageBand could have great use among students with auditory disabilities of all ages. With GarageBand a teacher could upload podcasts of various things such as reading assignments or any subject such as math, English, history, etc. These podcasts would be ideal for teaching students inflection and also great for speech therapy. A teacher could even make podcast lessons specific to each student in a matter of minutes. Students would even have the ability to make podcasts of their own, thus responding to the teacher and giving the teacher vital data regarding their speech and language progress.
ReplyDeleteI would probably be most likely to use iMovie because I could take a video of myself and then let the whole class see it. Since my final project is going to be ok Hygiene I thought that I would do this blog about how middle school children need to be shown by example how to properly brush their teeth and wash their hands. By creating an iMovie I would be able to show all the steps and preform them myself. This way the students can see how I am doing it and then relate to the movie. I think this would work great for the students to be interactive with the video by stopping it and asking questions and seeing the teacher perform the tasks.
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome how many different ways and opportunities there are to incorporate multimedia tools into instruction. I think the one I see being most useful, especially for the high school classroom I'm in now, would be iMovie. I would use iMovie for high school students with functional mental disabilities in teaching them the functional and mathematical skill of how to use money to go shopping. Usually these students use CBI to incorporate these skills into their community engagement, but I thought it would be helpful to make a video prior to the CBI of their teacher, para, or peer tutors out in the public using money to pay for items. I think this would be a great example of anchored instruction because I would start by teaching the students the difference between the different dollar bills and when to use each bill. Next, we would transition into mock scenarios where the student uses bills to pay for fake items in the classroom. After the student feels comfortable with these skills, I would incorporate the iMovie presentation to show students what it looks like to buy items in a real setting. I would pause the video at various times and ask the students questions such as "What item is the person purchasing?" "How much do you think the item is?" "Which bill would you use to pay for this item?" This way, the students are engaged with the video and can see an example of a real life situation where they would use the skills they have been learning. When the students go into the community to utilize these skills, they will be more familiar with their environment and what is being asked of them because they would have already seen it on the video. I think using multimedia tools in this kind of situation would be very helpful because often for students with functional mental disabilities there is a huge gap between learning a skill in a classroom and applying it in the community. I think incorporating a video example would help bridge that gap by preparing students ahead of time and giving them a visual example of a real life scenario.
ReplyDeleteI would most likely use Quick Time Player as my multimedia tool to use as an audio recording and/or video recording to help students with hearing and auditory sensitivity or voice recognition problems at any grade level. This can also be used in any subject area also, because I would use it as a instructional tool, where students who have a hard time remembering or comprehending instructions to go back and be able to watch or listen to the instruction as many times as necessary to complete the task. I would like to use it specifically with children who need a task analysis and prompting for transitions. For example going to lunch: there could be a video that gives instructions on how to prepare for lunch.
ReplyDelete1) go to the bathroom and wash your hands
2) walk to grab your lunch box
3) line up at the door with your lunch box
or at the end of the day to go home:
1) Put away toys or learning supplies
2) Put your homework in your backpack
3) walk to get your coat and put it on
4) Put on your backpack and line up at the door
I would use this so that the child is more independent and It is not as though I am ordering them around all day to do this and do that. It will be a prerecorded voice or video that will help the student complete simple everyday tasks.
I agree with you that Quick Time Player could be a great multimedia tool to use in schools. It is definitely true that you can use it for a wide range of subjects, making it even more useful to enhance the learning of our students. And finally, I believe you are absolutely correct for wanting to use it with students who require a task analysis/transitional prompting, and like the fact that you can replay the audio/video recording as many times as needed.
DeleteGarage Band and iMovie can be used as an instructional tool for teaching letter sounds to kindergarten and first grade students who have learning or developmental disabilities. The software can help the students who have previously struggled to understand the material without the multimedia tools. In the special education classroom, the students will receive more direct and intensified instruction in the basic concepts underlying phonetic awareness and the videos on Garage Band or iMovie will presented the students with the concepts that each letter makes distinct sounds. The videos will review aspects of phonetic awareness that include the symbols used to represent letters and the distinct sounds that each letter makes. The videos will expose students to the concepts that letters have specific sounds and words start with letters that make certain sounds. The software will present these concepts in a song format with pictures of each letter and some images of items that start with each letter. The videos will benefit the students by helping them remember the sounds that the letters makes so that when they are in the general education classroom, the students will be able to interact with their same-age peers by participating in hands-on activities and computer activities that teach how letters form words.
ReplyDeleteI believe that iMovie can truly help educate students with disabilities. For example, let's say I have a first grade male student with a learning disability in math. To help this student in the subject of math we would have to focus on particular methods of solving problems that the student comprehends and is able to apply to other problems. For this scenario I will say that the lesson is adding single digit numbers. To do this using iMovie I would record myself solving the same addition problem in multiple different ways (base-ten blocks, counting chips, number line, etc.). Once I demonstrated the different methods using a couple addition problems, I would discuss them with the student to figure out which method he prefers to solve the problems with. Using iMovie in this situation would benefit the student because it allows the first grader to visually see all the different ways in which he could approach the problem and select the one that makes the most sense to him (therefore I would be giving him options to choose from). Giving my student options to choose from because it will make him feel independent and make him feel like he plays a large role in his educational process. Also, using iMovie I would be engaging or situating my student in the instruction, allowing him to be an active member in his educational process.
ReplyDeleteI agree that iMovie is a perfect tool that can assist students while trying to understand math. Math is all visual and it important to have that visual aid when teaching students basic math. Also I remember you saying for your final project you were going to teach students how to add whole numbers. I like how you applied the lesson into the iMovie and sounds like you should use it for your final project!
DeleteI believe that iMovie is one of the most useful multimedia tools when providing students with anchored instruction. I would give lesson on functional skills, such as tying shoes. The grade level would be K-1. I would first show the students a video of me tying my shoes in the two different possible ways. The students would be asked to bring in their own shoes to go along with me during the video. I could use iMovie in three different ways for this lesson. I could provide a task analysis while i demonstrate what should be done. I could have the students tie their shoes along with the video. The last option would be to show them the video, and have them practice by memorization of what the video has taught them. iMovie would really help students who are just learning to tie their shoes. The video is meant to be an aid to help give them a visual as they learn the proper way to tie their shoes. Many kids needs a visual in order to understand what is being asked of them.
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