Module+7+Downloading+and+Embedding+Video+and+Audio

**Action Assignment #7** media type="youtube" key="4Ex3k3yKjYk?fs=1" height="385" width="480" **Discussion Questions #7** **Reflect on how much you have learned in regard to using multimedia in your classroom. Since it is summer, forecast how you might include multimedia into your teaching to improve student engagement and learning. ** This class has definitely been a great eye opener to different ways of using multimedia in the classroom. Not only have I discovered new resources taht I know I can incorporate into my lessons, but I also have learned so much from my classmates. They have shared such a wealth of resources and ideas that at times I am overwhelmeed by everything out there! Our Spanish curriculum is so "big" that it seems sometimes an impossibility to even get through everything that the district expects us to cover, and trying to incorporate more technology into that is definitely a large task that I am going to have to face; however, I know that by doing this I am only going to enrich my students' learning experience with me. It also helps that our principals, and especially our assistant principal (who is also my immediate supervisor) is very big into technology! I know that one of the best ways of capturing my students' attention is to use more technology and my goal is to try to use some kind of technology in every lesson, everyday.

I have already used multimedia on a daily basis by projecting my daily lesson plan, outlined in PowerPoint, over the LCD projector. This worked great last year I was fortunate enough to be assigned to one room for the first time in the 8 years I have been teaching. Sadly, next year I will be switching rooms again, and packing up my cart and moving from room to room is a time buster. It makes things not run as smoothly and I can always depend on the teacher whose room I am sharing to be off the computer, etc., in time for me to set up and be ready to roll. I have thought of somehow giving students a question or trivia question to respond to and having them use their cell phones to respond, thus allowing me the time to get logged on to the computer, etc. Any good ideas of websites where students can submit responses from their cells? I also have been learning how to use Moodle and I am in the process of creating 2 Moodle pages for the 2 levels of Spanish I teach next year. I am excited about this as I plan to offer extra credit opportunities to my students from my Moodle. I want to incorporate extra credit that requires the students to use different forms of multimedia, such as digital photography, movies....So many things, so little time! I know that I definitely want to switch most of my projects from poster format to multimedia, and I have already started to do this. Some ideas I have in the planning are Glogster, Prezi, Animoto, Voki...well, the list is endless and again, I am so thankful for all the wonderful ideas I have gotten from my cohort! **You must also respond to at least two other classmates. **
 * In response to Deb Norton:** Deb, I love all your ideas! You have been a great resource for me and I hope we will stay in touch for a long time! I love looking through your Delicious account for awesome links! Thanks! I too want to use many of the multimedia tools you mentioned AND I had totally forgotten about the podcasting idea I had until I was reading your post. I want to somehow have all my students create their own lessons on what we are teaching (vocab, grammar, culture...) and have them teach it to the class in addition to me teaching it, and I thought of making Podcasts one of their choices! Any wonderful insights into that?
 * In response to Andrew Rinke:**Andrew, I really liked your idea of requiring your students to photo document their work and started thinking how I could do this with my high-schoolers' work throughout the school year. I thought that it would be neat for them not only to include what they are doing/have done in Spanish, but maybe have them photo document their other classes, extra-curriculars, fun moments, and other positive moments! I would have to definitely require that they incorporate all grammar topics we learn into this, but I think this would be simple enough to do if they stage it as we move along in the chapters. This could definitely take the place of semester finals, which I hate as much as they do and I truly do not feel they get squat out of it! Hmmmm...now I need to decide what platforms I would suggest for them to complete this, because as a language teacher they would need to be able to somehow incorporate language, be it written or spoken, or both, into the project.