Hypermedia increases motivation and interest when presenting information. It’s an essential evolving tool in the classroom. One particular commercial hypermedia product that I took great interest to was an interactive storybook. The software is called U-ventures and the website is www.u-ventures.net.
This product is an interactive storybook. It has very special place in my heart as a lifetime avid reader. This electronic storybook is adapted from the the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, that I myself fell in love with at a very young age. Its use in the classroom is phenomenal and was for me as well on a personal level. It’s interactive and you choose the character’s next move. Now that the paperbacks have become digitally interactive that popularity has continued to grow. It keeps students on their toes. It’s a way to make reading versatile and interaction is available as the student requests it. In an era of handheld 24 television programs and movies, I feel this is an ideal competition for students to read than rather watch something on a screen.Classic way to keep children engaged in reading and now digitally interactive #chooseyourownadventure #ED527UM
— David Iradji (@DavidIradji) September 19, 2013
A multimedia authoring tool that also can keep students engaged and motivated is audio and video production and editing systems (Roblyer & Doering, pg.186). Students have access to video cameras, editing programs, and all types of technology via cell phones and lap tops. We must incorporate these tools in the classroom. Develop assignments where students can create podcasts or videos to submit the material. Students can utilized lesson reviews and study guides via video and audio streams (Robyler & Doering, pg.189) . We live in an era where people have headphones on all day and are usually attached to a screen. Educators must incorporate lessons and school work to these types of media and students can access material virtually all the time at their finger tips.
Johnson, Amy. (August,2013.)Through the Black hole. Retrieved September, 2013:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUQtWUabWVI.
U -ventures sounds like a wonderful addition to the class room. How would you use U-ventures? Would this be something that is used in the class room or out side of the class room for assignments?
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the interactive storybook in the classroom. I actually had the opportunity to see a child using one in second grade. Like the textbook says, the student can read at their own pace. One thing I wonder is if the teacher has control over which books he or she can download or are teachers only given a small selection to choose from.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point. I'm interested in more interactive books that could apply to science. There out there just not as popular as choose your own adventures and therefore not as well funded.
DeleteI feel that you made a great choice with U-ventures it would be a wonderful addition to the class room According to Roblyer and Doering , In some books narrators read pages as words are highlighted on screen for learning. Is this a tool that you would implement or do you intend to us this in am more traditional reading style?
ReplyDeleteMaureen
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in elementary school the books were available as leisure reading not typically required reading. I do remeber the books being available in class to read but they definitely are book reporting material. I mean you do "choose your own adventure." However it could be a tool in and outside the classroom for kids to learn to love to read not pick up a joystick or watch a screen.