A photo story3 presentation

Using Photo story 3 to engage students by using images, sound and text is one of the most simple, rewarding and positive learning experiences I've had so far on my E-learning journey. Last year in my prac school I had the fortunate experience of receiving a tutorial of this program in less than half an hour! Students in the middle years (3,4 & 5) were also learning this presentation process to display their understandings in an ICT format. This engaged the students by using the combination of digital elements together to produce original ideas in a real world setting. This story was created for an assignment in another subject which in turn helped me find the relatedness of the content "Authentic assessment" in an ICT paradigm. As I continue to navigate through E-learning, connections from skills to content are reinforced, furthering and inspiring my quest for related knowledge and skills. Learning of ICT's is implicitly linked to lifelong learning as my self directed learning becomes easier and more conceivable to achieve by practice and conscious application. Photo story is very simply scaffolded and would be an excellent tool for students to learn to use and present their work in. Previous understandings of basic computer skills and terminology would obviously be required to scaffold learning to be taught and utilised succinctly to embedd the learnt knowledge and understanding.