Week 1 DQ Topic 1

Topic #1: Briefly share an experience about using media (visual and/or auditory) in class or during a presentation, focus your comment on any work-arounds or solutions you used when the tech wasn't quite working or when the tech wasn't adequate to do what you had originally planned.

I had a small group of interns doing a presentation for the counties UTA (Urban Teaching Academy) summer camp. The audience was primarily high school students and some staff from the various campus sites. It was focusing on 21st century skills and web 2.0 tools. There was an Internet connection issue with the videos the students made for the Facebook examples.

We talked about the options and determined they would have to focus more on how the tool was used instead of how to use the tool. The students told the story of how the youth of Iran used Facebook to communicate with the outside world during the Presidential election protests. One of students explained her first hand experience with a friend in Iran during this time.

The students already use Facebook so they would not be interested in a tutorial of Facebook, but both the digital natives and digital immigrants were excited about the interaction with people of a different culture on the other side of the globe.