Week 4 Technologies

                               YouTube

For this week’s assignment, we were asked to research multimedia resources for enhancing the educational process and application resources for the educational process. For multimedia, I chose YouTube and Facebook. YouTube should be part of eLearning community because:

(1).  YouTube is easy to blend.

(2).  It promotes and engages students in discussing topics

(3). Creates a learning community

(4). A fantastic idea for mobile learning

(5). Promotes microlearning

(6). Encourages students to enhance their skills of note-taking

(7). Student’s can make their YouTube video (Hurt & Moss, 2012).

                                   Facebook

Facebook, provides language development, interpersonal communication, group collaboration and ICT skills. Language developments provided through Facebook enables students to conversate with others through written response, therefore, promoting writing skills. Interpersonal communication helps students with future employment by advancing their personal developmental skills. Group collaboration taught through Facebook by providing a forum for students to interact and engage with friends, therefore, collaborating with others in a group. ICT Skills, Facebook teaches students the skills of ICT without the step-by-step instructional hassle (Hurt & Moss, 2012).

             FOSS and GNU

The two application resources for educational process is,

FOSS and GNU. Foss is free software that helps students develop knowledge, ideas, and expertise. The objective of Foss is, encourage students to share information and complete their technology projects. Foss shares two movements, the first is free software, and the second is an open source. The free movement allows an intellectual freedom to students, and the open movement offers an abridgment of the student to student collusion. GNU is free software developed in 1983 for the purpose of encouraging people to work together with the control of self-computing. The developer shared the software with others in hopes they would analyze the source code, modify the software if needed, share the data with others, and publish the revised version of the software version they edited (Bonk, 2009). 

I chose Facebook and YouTube for this week’s technology because these tools have changed the game in education by taking learning out of the classroom and into cyberspace where students can share learning across the globe. How I might incorporate Facebook into my professional practice is create a Facebook page for the class where they can exchange ideas, ask questions and receive a special assignment. The second way is to encourage video conferencing among classmates for the purpose of completing a group project. How I might incorporate Youtube into my professional practice is, find instructional videos to change the pace of the classroom dynamics. Secondly, if teaching a lesson on variations in the criminal justice since the 80s, instead of talking about the changes I could show a YouTube video that talks about the changes and shares video on the changes that have occurred (Hurt & Moss, 2012).  

References

Bonk, C. J. (2009). The World Is Open. How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Josse- Bass.

Hurt, Nicole E.; Moss, Gregory S.; Bradley, Christen L.; Larson, Lincoln R.; Lovelace, Matthew;         Prevost, Luanna B.; Riley, Nancy; Domizi, Denise; and Camus, Melinda S. (2012) "The                      ‘Facebook' Effect: College Students' Perceptions of Online Discussions in the Age of Social                 Networking," International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 6: No. 2,           Article 10. Available at:https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2012.060210