Learning how to communicate the concept of money in American Sign Language is very difficult for many of my students. In addition, it is a topic that we do not have a lot of class time to practice. This video does a great job of demonstrating the concepts clearly in a way students can understand and can reinforce what I teach in the classroom.
In evaluating videos, I considered all of the factors and design principles of multimedia design. I found a video that was appropriate for the lesson and targeted the skill I wish to develop in my students. I felt that it assisted my students cognition by utilizing visual demonstrations that were easy to understand and repetitive. It is audience appropriate as I teach adult learners in a university setting. The use of visual examples allows the students useful practice and increases cognition and retention. Finally, because it is a YouTube video, it is easily accessible on any device and free to use. This is especially valuable to college students with stretched resources and limited funds.
Creating the animation on Powtoon was a fun exercise and one that I think may be useful to my students. I created a video as a course overview and introduction for beginning level ASL students. At this level, the students tend to be intimidated and nervous. This animation can lighten the mood and help them to enter this new arena with less trepidation. By breaking the information into small pieces and pairing it with visuals, student engagement and comprehension of the course expectations will be improved.
Creating the animation on Powtoon was a fun exercise and one that I think may be useful to my students. I created a video as a course overview and introduction for beginning level ASL students. At this level, the students tend to be intimidated and nervous. This animation can lighten the mood and help them to enter this new arena with less trepidation. By breaking the information into small pieces and pairing it with visuals, student engagement and comprehension of the course expectations will be improved.
Cheryl, What a great idea to use an animation like this as an introduction to your class! I am impressed with how well you were able to do this with Powtoons. My only (minor) suggestion is that you slow it down a little when a slide has a lot of text on it so that viewers can finish reading before it advances. Thanks for sharing this with everyone! ~ Ronald
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your video! I agree that animation definitely lightens the mood and will help comfort your students. It took me a little bit of time to figure out how to add time to slides but, I think slowing it down would definitely benefit your students. Great job!
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