This week just happened to be my presentation on “Authoring and Multimedia” where we were authoring using Adobe Fireworks and uploading our photos into Animoto to make it even more multimedia-ish!!

Unfortunately, as technology would work for me…Animoto was down and would not upload photos meaning our class missed out on that bit. We managed to keep going with everything else and will continue it next week.

It reminds me that this too can happen in the classroom. A beautifully planned lesson could turn to banana mush if technology is not operating correctly. I guess, in your own classroom it is a lot easier to manage as you can move onto the next lesson… but still a point can be made to be careful and not 110% reliant on technology – great as it is!

In talking the tut group through uploading their photos, creating a new folder and useing Adobe Fireworks to edit their photos it became extremely clear that there are so many small explicit, steps that in using a computer and associated programs we take for granted, that for some children, need to be explicitly taught. I guess this is similiar to Paul suggesting that how to word searches in search engines would be a great and necessary lesson for children. Small things that we don’t even register, we need to ensure children have mastery over it.