DFI week 3

This week in the DFI course I have looked at media. Specifically options for using different forms of media in the classroom and on my class website, and how to effectivly embed this in a variety of different yet appropriate ways so my students can access pertinent information in an engaging and age appropriate way.

I set up a youtube channel so that I can safely control what content my students are accessing to support their learning. I learnt how to change the settings to keep it safe, and to create playlists of videos and content to access from multiple platforms.

I then spent some time working in google draw. This was the first time i had encountered this program, and I enjoyed using its features and settings to develop visual content and embed this into my blog. I can see many benefits to using this program, and in getting students to use it when creating visual content themselves. I look forward to adding this to the options students have when creating visual displays of their learning and understandings in my classroom setting. It was especially useful to go further into the features of this program in our deep dive session later in the day. I discovered numerous additional features and got to discuss a variety of ways i had not thought of to use this program in my classroom.

It was very valuable to spend time working through features of google slides. This is a program I use often, so to find shortcuts and extra features is fantastic. I can see many ways I will be able to use this more effectivly with my teaching now, in a way students can access better, and to help me work far more efficiently by saving me valuable time when creating new slide documents.