Images & Podcasting

Images can be an effective learning tool for a teacher. Pictures often will grab the attention of the learner before any text does, so when using pictures, it is crucial that you select an image that is both visually appealing, but related to the topic at hand. The saying that "a picture is worth 1000 words" has literal meaning in the context of education. We can often summarise the point of our discussion with the use of one image. We can play on the emotions of our students, get them to see the bigger picture. The following image was used in a Year 8 Humanities class I currently have in for Embedded Professional Learning.

The Year 8 students are currently doing a unit on child slavery. When this image was projected to the front of the class, they were asked what did they see. Apart from seeing the boy, they saw sadness, struggle, pain, strength, loneliness and many other things. These students saw past the obvious and pointing out the emotion of the image from one picture.

I have now editted the image using Pixlr, does this now change the emotion of the image?

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Podcasting is a tool in which a user can record audio clips on anything (such as basic management systems, how to write an article etc) and other people can download these and listen to them via a computer, iPod or MP3 device. This can be done also using video, however it is then referred to as a Vodcast. QUT's Business Faculty have their own podcast website set up here. This would help their students catch up on any missing course work, provide extra researching materials for assessment or be a great study tool when revising for an exam.