Fotobable Assignment

Assignment Title: Fotobabble

Uses in the Classroom:

Fotobabble could be used in multiple ways in the classroom. Since I do not work in a K-12 classroom I can also see a variety of ways this technology might be used in my job. As the Distance Learning and Online Coordinator I am mainly there to help instructors with their online courses in Moodle.

I could especially see this being used in a Native American language course that was recently developed as an online course. The instructor could use images that represent the word or words they are trying to teach and record themselves saying the word so that the student might better understand the word they are trying to learn. The fotobabble could then be embedded into the course itself so that students don’t need to continually open the link in different windows or having to hit the back button all the time.

Issues to Consider:

One issue that came to mind when playing with this technology was that it could become a little tedious for some. For example if the audio goes on for a long time and the picture is simple and straightforward I could see myself getting bored looking at the same picture. This is why I think the technology would be great for short simple tasks such as learning one word at a time.

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